This cake was a bit of a close call. At the beginning of the discussion, the customer was certain she wanted a soccer ball cake. Now, as I’m sure you will all remember, I made that very same cake not 14 weeks ago(!). This request was just downright unreasonable and I told her so (OK, no I didn’t. But I was sorely tempted to). Her son is studying in a gap year program and a large soccer ball birthday cake would easily serve everyone in the program. Plus staff. Which really made it a perfect choice.
However, sometimes the winds of fortune blow your way. I don’t know what the motivating factor was, but suddenly in a felicitous twist of fate, the soccer ball turned into a soccer jersey. Maybe it was the concentrated discouraging thought rays I was sending her way. We will never know.
So now, armed with a new assignment, I set about making a jersey. Frankly, it’s a much less difficult cake than a ball. A ball needs to be perfectly round and even and the slightest mistake or bulge is immediately obvious. A soccer jersey is flat and if there are any imperfections (which there weren’t, I’d like to say), you can always claim you’ve made the kind of well-loved jersey that’s gotten stretched out or faded in the wash.
Now that I have this tool,
which cuts evenly spaced strips, it was a (somewhat time-consuming) breeze.
There was a heated debate in the kitchen about whether Justin’s name should contain a yud or not. Were you reading it as Justine? But then without the yud, wouldn’t that have been Justen? Some sleep was lost over this conundrum, but I stand by my decision. No complaint was heard from the Justin quarter.
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