Without exception, every person to whom I showed a photo of this cake asked if the recipient is a mafia don, planning a heist, or a drug dealer. It gave me an interesting new perspective. Why, I never thought of the gangster crowd as potential customers. I bet if there’s a way in, it could be a lucrative – if perhaps hazardous – niche market. So feel free to mention my name if you know anyone in the biz.
No, instead this cake celebrated tech startup Lightricks’ $60 million success in its second round! That’s its second round of funding, for those of you in the tech jargon dark. So that’s 600,000 one hundred dollar bills that I needed to stuff into that one little briefcase. And here I thought the challenge was going to be getting the clasps on the bag just right.
To make this cake as realistic as possible, I figured I needed to print out several different edible versions of the $100 bill. You know, so that the serial numbers would all be different. It’s a feature I could be fairly certain absolutely nobody else would notice. But it’s attention to detail like that that turns every project from merely time-consuming into a truly prolonged affair. While the cake consumer may not consciously recognize the verisimilitude of the finished product, you can be sure he knows it subliminally.
Except for one small hiccup. I printed three or four different versions of the bill. But I was so focused on getting the placement of the lid and the money just right that I somehow forgot to ensure that different serial numbers appeared on all the bills sticking out of the front! Some counterfeiter I am. Should the recipients lift the lid and examine the bills inside you can bet they’ll be amazed by the variation. Let’s just pray that’s what happened before they took a knife to it.
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