{"id":457,"date":"2025-07-04T14:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T14:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haptonstahl.org\/polimath\/?p=457"},"modified":"2025-07-04T14:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T14:03:27","slug":"cake-ander-16-mario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haptonstahl.org\/polimath\/cake-ander-16-mario\/","title":{"rendered":"Cake Ander-16: Mario"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I make birthday cakes for each of my boys. I don’t use fondant — I strive for “tasty” — so it can get a bit crazy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ander turns 16<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This was around the time The Super Mario Bros. Movie<\/a> had come out and Ander had shifted from MK8DX (that’s Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Nintendo Switch, for you non-gamers) aficionado to ranked record-holder. Things were getting real. He asked for Mario, in chocolate, as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This seemed ambitious, not so much for the physical construction but for the detail in shape and decoration. Here’s our beloved hero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I, not one to refuse help, found a Mario cake pan. (Of COURSE there’s a Mario cake pan.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not only was there a pan, but it included paint-by-numbers instructions that even specified the order. Seems like this would be straightforward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I buttered the mold thoroughly to ensure the cake came out in one piece, and that almost<\/em> worked, with only a couple of small pieces having to be glued with frosting into place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After that, the main decoration came together nicely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Finally, some personalization completed another cake. Ander loved it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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