Food Coloring
Today was the birthday party for my youngest BIL.
My MIL made the birthday cake. She iced the cake. She had purchased what she believed to be a tubed icing for writing on the cake.
She drew the greek letters of his honors society on the cake, wrote happy birthday on it, wrote his name on it, wrote 19 and surrounded it with sparkles, and drew balloons. By this time there was virtually nothing left in the little tubes and her fingertips were stained blue and there was a lot of icing on the cake.
She slid the tubes back into the box and handed them to me to put into the trash. It was at that moment that my SIL saw the front of the box. "Mom, that's food coloring!" (By the way, mom has two syllables the way she said it at the time)
Upon looking at the front of the box, it did clearly say food coloring. For some reason it had been on the shelf with the icings at the grocery store and she had just grabbed the box without really reading it.
We ate the cake anyway, concluding that since it was for human consumption that it would not hurt us. However we do have a number of interstingly tinted mouths (depending upon which portion of the cake/color of food coloring you got). My hubby's is profoundly stained as he proceeded to have fun with it and ate as much gel as he could (he's a fruitcake).
Still, a good day.
Happy Birthday David!
My MIL made the birthday cake. She iced the cake. She had purchased what she believed to be a tubed icing for writing on the cake.
She drew the greek letters of his honors society on the cake, wrote happy birthday on it, wrote his name on it, wrote 19 and surrounded it with sparkles, and drew balloons. By this time there was virtually nothing left in the little tubes and her fingertips were stained blue and there was a lot of icing on the cake.
She slid the tubes back into the box and handed them to me to put into the trash. It was at that moment that my SIL saw the front of the box. "Mom, that's food coloring!" (By the way, mom has two syllables the way she said it at the time)
Upon looking at the front of the box, it did clearly say food coloring. For some reason it had been on the shelf with the icings at the grocery store and she had just grabbed the box without really reading it.
We ate the cake anyway, concluding that since it was for human consumption that it would not hurt us. However we do have a number of interstingly tinted mouths (depending upon which portion of the cake/color of food coloring you got). My hubby's is profoundly stained as he proceeded to have fun with it and ate as much gel as he could (he's a fruitcake).
Still, a good day.
Happy Birthday David!
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