Last night, I baked my cakes. two tiers, two layers each, of spice cake. They were to be torted to 4 layers per tier, and would have the top and bottom two layers filled with french apple filling, while the middle filling would have cream cheese icing with apple pie spice. Yum, right???
So bright and early this morning, I get up to decorate the cake and put it together for the trip to Mom's for lunch. I cut the tops off, and torte the first layer, then have to run to the little cake decorator's room. 
While I'm in there, my two male cats decide to wreak havoc, and do something they NEVER do... fight on the counter.
You guessed it... all but one layer of cake ended up on the floor. Not content to leave the layers safely on the plastic wrap (I'd laid it on top of them while I ran to the restroom), they then fought THROUGH the cakes, scattering them to various parts of the kitchen.
At which point, 'Mama' walks in and yells bloody murder at them both. While my back is turned, squirting my darlings with the dreaded Squirt Bottle of Doom, the dogs, alerted by the sound of a cat fight, come trotting in.
Needless to say, there wasn't much for me to clean up, with two such efficient Floor Mates ready to suck every last crumb into their greedy mouths.
But I didn't have a cake to take to my own party! Mom ended up saving the day by baking me one, and my cake had simply my name, written in the frosting with the edge of a knife, and *mumble mumble* candles on it.
Sigh.
I guess it could have been worse... it could have been a cake I'd promised to someone else, but man... my own birthday???
Ah well... guess I'll just save the icing and filling for next time!
Anyhow, just had to share.
Now, to go eat Chinese... (just kidding... I'm not really serving up my kitties in the chicken lo mein... really, I'm not!)
Just gotta love those fur babies!!! 
At least your mom cared enough to make you a cake!! I'm 47 and my mom has never made me a cake!!
Happy BirthdayTo YOU!!!
Hope you had a happy one anyway! 
I am so sorry your cats took exception to their no-kitchen/counter fighting guidelines...bother!!! That's terrible.
Since this year, my birthday fell in the midst of my packing up to move - I didn't get to make my own birthday cake, either...
But my dear friends had a suggestion that I now share w/you:
Make a cake another time, and just call that arbitrary day 'Belated Birthday Cake Day'!!!
Their reasoning was "none of your friends/family will turn away from cake!"
I liked that idea a LOT and am about to finally celebrate 'BBCD', when I can find the time to make 'my' cake! (it will be about 4 months 'belated', but all the same...!
Best wishes to you and a VERY Happy Birthday however long you choose to celebrate it! 
Wendl
My mother has this endearing little saying:
I LOVE cats ,,,they taste just like chicken! 
But how depressing!!! I made the cutest little cake for my birthday and somehow the pictures got deleted ... still got to eat the thing, but nothing to post on CC!! 
I am sorry your cake was ruined but I do hope you had a very
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
thanks all!
My b-day is actually Sunday (tomorrow), so there's still hope, but this was the cake for the 'family' to enjoy. I had another cake planned for the friends tomorrow, when we go over there.
So I have the chance to make another one, but at this point in time, I dont' have the energy. I was really counting on having leftovers of this one, to take to the friends' place tomorrow.
Ah well!
I'm sure it will be a great birthday, either way. If I manage to make another one, I'll share pics, but don't hold your breath. After the week I've had, I was lucky to have got as far as I did with the 'brutalized' one this morning! LOL (Had an emergency laparascopic appendectomy and hernia repair last Sunday morning. It's been a rough week! Maybe I'll just take it easy tomorrow and pick up a grocery-store cake. LOL)
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