Cake

When I am hungry, which is most of the time, I like to think about what types of cakes my children would be. Well, two of them do have birthdays within this 3 week window, so I have been thinking about cakes for that reason, lest you think I am totally depraved.

Miles would be a beautiful angel food cake laced with Grand Marnier and covered in berries of every type and shavings of white chocolate over everything like a thin layer of snow. Miles loves snow more than most people love chocolate, and his complexion is pale with blonde hair, so angel food seems to embody him, and yet he has gravity and a sense of humor, hence the berries and blizzard of white chocolate.

Alec would be a petite but tall layered cake with alternating rounds of flourless chocolate cake, because he is dark and so intense, and strata of moist pound cake with big vanilla buttercream light sabers piped around the sides. The zebra-like cake would then be topped with a spotted horse because it symbolizes Alec's love of animals and his unbridled nature, as well as his opposing personality sides: alternatingly loving and laden with conflict.

Dahlia, hmm. She is harder to characterize because her personality is still emerging. She is sweet and surprisingly long, so I would have to say that Dahlia is a red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, probably multilayered as well, and finally festooned in dahlias of the palest pink with reddish centers. The cake would have a handle for her to grab to pull herself up to its height so that she could eat it from the top down.