Sweet taste of "failure"

One thing about vision is that it doesn't always translate into palpable form the way it appears in your mind. Sometimes it manifests itself even better than the image in your mind. Sometimes it results in unforseen disaster.

For my friend's 18th birthday, another friend and I attempted to bake him the ultimate cake. In our different minds, we both saw the same glorious cake. But this time, our vision manifested itself in an unexpected way. Nothing like we imagined. Nothing like anyone could have possible imagined. When the frosting didn't turn out the way we had hoped for, we decided to erase our minds of that picture perfect cake and make it fun by covering it with the birthday boy's favorite candies. We used our creativity to make a nostalgic cake of childhood imagination.

Candy + Cake = Candy-cake

The cake itself was made using a very light Angel food cake recipe so it balanced out the sweetness of the candy very well. We decided to drizzle the butter cream icing over the cake right before serving so people could control the sweetness level to their own taste.

As crazy as it looks, most of the responses from our daring cake eaters were that it truly tasted as innovative and marvelous as the dreams of our youth.