Birthday cakes

I ate two cakes today. Not two whole cakes, but two cakes nonetheless. Danielle came over yesterday to make an ice cream cake and I helped. She actually got the ice cream layer in a round cake tin and put it in the freezer on Saturday night and then got Bryn to bake the German chocolate cake part then too, while we were playing games. We used the extra cake batter to make cupcakes. Then today she made the in-between holding-the-two-parts-together layer out of crushed golden Oreos, fresh (amazing looking) strawberries and vanilla icing. Previous to making the cake she'd asked me for my ingredient-preferences, but since I really didn't know anything about making ice cream cakes, she made some executive decisions too. Anyway, she whipped up the middle layer and then we quickly put the three layers together and spread icing over the whole cake. She used green decorative icing to write my name and add some other creativeness as well. Then we put the cake back in the freezer to await today's supper. Only a few minutes after the ice cream cake was safely stored away there was a knock at our apartment door. It was my brother, sister-in-law, nephew and niece dropping a chocolate bunt cake off, a day in advance, for my birthday. So I had a lot of cake to consume at supper tonight. In addition to cake we had four cheese pizzas and two pans of breadsticks, which disappeared rather quickly. After eating, some people had to leave, but the rest of us figured out how to play Set Cubed, which was confusing at first but got easier once we read the instructions. All in all, it was a good way to celebrate.