Dianomite Cake

Every so often I am hit with a stroke of genius.  I would never classify myself as someone artistic; the way that I think is too bound to order.  Even when I try to make something random, it so often defaults to something following an orderly pattern.

Anyway, my friend Diana's birthday was coming up soon.  We had previously collaborated together on creating these culinary masterpieces of birthday cakes.  And so, I wanted to make one for her and her twenty-fifth birthday.  In college, she was often called Diano-mite and it was only fitting that she had a dynamite cake.  Even though I made it back in November, it remains one of my greatest accomplishments of the recent past.

The sticks of dynamite are red velvet Swiss rolls filled with almond cream cheese icing.  The red covering over each stick of dynamite is fruit roll up.  The timer is a zebra cake and the fuses are Twizzlers.  And the tie that is holding all of it together is a fruit by the foot.

I must admit that it was not the best thing I've ever tasted.  But it might be the best thing I've ever created.