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What birthday celebration is complete without a <i>cake</i>?
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When I realised that the Brickish Association AGM fell just after our March celebration, and that several of the builders would be at the event, I knew that we needed a cake. The only problem was I don't bake. However, my mother does!
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Picture the scene:
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"<i>Mum? Is it possible for you to make a jam-sponge birthday cake?</i>"
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"<i>Yes... why?"</i>
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"<i>Excellent! I'll tell them my idea and that you'll do it.</i>"
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"<i>What?</i>"
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"<i>I'll tell the spacey folk that I've had an awesome idea for a cake to take to the AGM, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Classic Space. There'll be about 60 people there.</i>"
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"<b><i>What?</i></b>"
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"<i>Oh and it's got to be blue with the Classic Space logo on it, a white spaceman and a red spaceman, and a bumble-bee stripe ribbon around the edge. Thanks, I'm sure it'll be perfect!</i>"
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"<i><b>WHAT?!</b></i>"
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Of course it all came together beautifully and here is the very cake by <a href="/builder/hilary-dade">Hilary Dade</a>, her "MOC" for the March celebration.
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladewood/3414997440"><img src="/sites/neoclassicspace/files/u4/cs_cake.jpg" alt="Classic Space Cake" width="500" height="332" /></a>
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The design of this MOC is completely studless and cleverly works around the lack of a
trans-yellow solution, as well as incorporating the definitive bumble-bee stripes. The quality of the logos on the minifigures is
amazing, there is no fading or yellowing at all.
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bladewood/3414192843/"><img src="/sites/neoclassicspace/files/u4/cs_cake_cutting.jpg" alt="Cutting the cake" width="159" align="left" height="240" hspace="10" /></a>James and I cut the cake on Saturday 4th April, and within about 20 minutes it was gone - not a <i>single</i> crumb was left!
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You know, I really like MOCs that you can eat, or as Ed pointed out, that you are <i>supposed</i> to eat.
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Thanks Mum! I <i>promise</i> I won't ask you to do anything like that again.
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Not for a while, anyway.
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Honestly!
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