But alas, the birthday boy is rending his clothes and gnashing his teeth over grad school, and the bride is all aglow (mostly with rage) over wedding plans. So. Instead, we had a quiet evening with a few of our friends and several cases of beer. The highlight of the evening was the result of the only real planning I could do. Several months ago, Chris was telling me (again) about one of his favorite childhood birthdays, which was Star Wars-themed and wherein the main memory was of Chris licking the frosting off of Han Solo's little plastic butt.
I discovered on eBay that people were still circulating Star Wars cake pans that had been originally manufactured in 1980 -- R2-D2 and Darth Vader were the two biggies. There might have been an X-Wing, but I may be dreaming. I bought one of the R2-D2 pans and kept it in the closet (again, for months) waiting for Chris' birthday. The awesome part is that the original decorating instructions are still available on Wilton.com, so I was able to recreate R2-D2 in all of his retro glory. I kept imagining myself as a befuddled mom in 1980, making this cake and going, "Well I don't know who this R2-D2 character is, but he's a real BITCH to get buttercream to stick to!"
Here are the results. I could not be more pleased and proud, and I'm happy to say that Chris appreciated the 2 1/2 hours of work that went into this labor of love. Happy birthday, dude. Enjoy your wacky-ass robot cake.
Here's an in-progress picture. I was so worried that it wasn't going to come out nice that I took pictures along the way so I could show Chris "what it looked like before the incident." Also, here's a good idea of what R2-D2 would have looked like if he was Mexican.
He's done! I used maraschino cherries for his little lights. Have I mentioned I'm so proud of this?
BOOP BEEP BEEP BOOOP!!! 
2 comments:
AWESOME CAKE!
Awesome cake! :) I'm glad Chris found someone as cool as you. :)
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