See the Cake of Enormous Girth

Sara and I really like making cakes. Oh, and we also really like eating cakes. I'm not sure which of these life passions came first. I remember eating some pretty incredible mom-made cakes when I was a wee little dessert destroyer. One year for my birthday she made me a rockin' Ernie and Bert cake that will forever be etched into the fleshy tissues of my heart, and the fatty tissues of my gut. Thanks mom! For Tyler's birthday we built him a pretty cool turtle with the earth on his back cake, as seen in the attached pictures. You'll notice that the pictures were hand selected to most artistically display the 3 standard steps of birthday cakeage - admire, ignite, digest.

We originally limited the M&Ms on the globe to only be placed atop the cities we've actually visited. We later expanded the candied marker requirements to include places that people we know have been to, because we likes our M&Ms. I bet Tyler was proud to be the only M&M representative of the Australian continent. Please note how cool the rainbow cake innards are, that's a secret family recipe that we've only told one person outside the family. That person was the turtle, and look what happened to him!

Did you know that ancient peoples of China, India and North Amercia all believed, for at least a little while, that the world was supported on the back of giant turtle? Yep, crazy beliefs like that couldn't be a coincidence. Extra points to the blog viewer out there who can identify the origins of the poem which inspired this particular turtle/earth cake:

See the turtle of enormous girth!
On his shell he holds the earth.
His thought is slow but always kind;
He holds us all within his mind.
On his back all vows are made;
He sees the truth but mayn't aid.
He loves the land and loves the sea,
And even loves a child like me.