by Griff » Fri Jul 04, 2025 2:15 pm
username + id: Griff 254592
name: Benjamin AKA "Benji"
prompt: Benji found himself looking at his cake again, head tilted to one side, than the other. What had gone so wrong? He had followed the recipe exactly! The cake itself looked perfectly fine! It had been created using a boxed mix, a dark chocolate cake like his sister had asked for to celebrate her birthday! He had frosted it with cream cheese frosting, which while it looked a bit uneven in some spots still covered most of the cake! The top had some dollar store candled placed, twenty five to be exact! He had used a bright purple icing to write out in slightly messy letters Happy Birthday Violette, and it was perfectly legible! Well, okay, maybe you had to squint a little.
He had bought some small plastic ponies to decorate it with, since ponies were her favorite animal! Some colorful sprinkles, a little icing flower that had fallen over... but it should have been okay! As they all sang happy birthday though and cut into the cake, trying it out, expressions changed. Everyone grasped for water, juice, soda, milk... anything! "Huh... why are y'all...?" He tried a piece himself before gasping. "Why is it salty?!?" His sister, once she recovered, began to giggle.
"The looks on everyones faces... oh my goodness this is the best cake every bro!" He could not help but smile, as all he wanted was to make her smile like that. Later, as they cleaned up, he looked at his supplies before pausing. Instead of a bag of sugar he had a bag of salt on the counter. Ah well. AT least it was a cake that everyone would always remember!
"You never know what you can create unless you try!"
Griff - She/Her


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