10:31 PM Fri, Apr 04, 2008 | Permalink
TJ Aulds
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We can all remember our birthdays as a youngster, when our moms would get us themed cakes. Maybe it was a cake shaped like a baseball diamond, football field or the best cake theme ever - the racetrack cake.
Of course, once we get past the age of 10 the themed cakes went away even though all men secretary wish we could have them back. Even the groom's cake at a wedding is usually just plain, one color/flavor with no theme at all.
It is also too weird to have a 40th birthday cake with dinosaurs on it - although it sorta fits if you think about it.
But technology is man's best non-dog friend, and thanks to some creative use of edible cake paint guys can have their cake and eat it too.
We can replace the baseball player figures and green icing with a photo-like image of Chuck Norris - or John Wayne, Hugh Hefner, Steve McQueen...
The photo attached comes from Aaron Fetter, hubby of one of our staffers. He had a birthday recently and asked for a Chuck Norris cake.
That, my friends, gives Aaron extra credit in the world of mandom.
And because it was some sort of technology - i.e. gadget - that created such a masterpiece it is even manlier.
Who would have thought that the same air brush used to make a caricature on those T-shirts we used to get as kids at Astroworld or used to smooth out the tan lines on Supermodels would come back and be useful in giving us guys a piece of our youth back and bringing back the themed cake.
So, if you had a choice as to having a themed cake, who would you pick?
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