I baked a caramel cake with buttercream icing for our friend Tess’s 41st birthday (oops! She may not want me to say this). I made two mid-sized cakes just as a contingency, in case one turns out funny. The caramel swirls and “flowers” were made of caramel sauce mixed with confectioner’s sugar, cooled. It was a “guess-what-will-happen” design since I wasn’t sure yet how the random caramel drippings would look. I think it looks quite artistic, if I may say so myself.
I baked the cake toward the evening since the whole day was packed with activities. Tess didn’t know that I would still be able to bake her cake. When it was done, hubby thought of pulling a prank on her. He sent here an SMS saying that we have a problem and that we wanted to talk with her and just cry to her if she was still awake.
Naturally, being the friend that she was, she said that we can go to her house and she immediately sent her kids inside so we could talk in their yard privately. She also called up hubby’s phone just to find out in advance what the problem was. Hubby gave her a very convincing answer in a very serious tone, while trying very hard not to laugh.
We decided to just park our car outside her house while we waited for her to come over. She rode in the back, already asking where we were going to talk. And then we sang “happy birthday to you…” and laughed. Needless to say, she got the surprise of her life and kept telling us we were “pangit” – haha! She liked the cake and we all ate it in their yard. I hope we made her happy that night despite the prank.
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