This was not by any stretch of the imagination a pretty cake (although the toy dragon on top is nice). Debby loves dragons, and it’s her birthday cake I baked. She also loves coconut and Mounds candy bars. Though I have a great recipe for a Mounds cake given to me by a woman I knew back in the 1970s, it looked complicated. So I grabbed a Mounds cake recipe off the Internet. As I told Lynne, everyone on my block now has Type 2 diabetes just from being in proximity to my house while I concocted the frosting. Sorry, neighbors.
Pretty or not, it’s always fun for Tim, Tom, and me to celebrate a birthday dinner and cake with Debby on her big day, and it’s always coconut-themed even though none of the rest of us are coconut fans. The only tradition we didn’t observe last night was reminiscing about the time Tim’s dog, in our absence, managed to eat part of her coconut cake (the day after the party, thankfully), and as Tom, Debby, and I later drove to visit my mother in her care home, Tim texted to say, “Rex’s ass just exploded.” A heartwarming birthday story for the books.
Debby did get a little puppy love last night from Eva and Anime. Who knows where Delta was (maybe keeping her eye on the cake in hope of reenacting the Rex incident; good thing that dragon was guarding it), while Jack, of course, was staying with Stewie at Aunt Debby’s so he couldn’t chew on Tim’s ankles.
Happy birthday, Debby!