This wasn't the first flashback to the Pan-Cake years for Ms. Westman, who prefers to use foundation and cover-up sparingly.
I know my ancestors had things harder than I do—no central air, no Netflix subscription but they danced together, and made those half-moon rice cakes, year after year, for generations.
The stories are filled with markers of time's passage: a birthday cake baked year-in year-out for a daughter who's now fully grown; the rigid itinerary of a retirement package tour; the "lime-green digits" of a bedside clock counting down the minutes until morning.
No one had bought me a cake in years, not since the last time my father let me have a birthday party.
Malini Jadeja, who lives in Delhi part time, said she was walking her beloved dog Fudge Cake some years ago not far from Lodi Gardens when "two dogs came out of nowhere and attacked".
Other star players have collaborated with the organisation – including the former Manchester United striker Robin van Persie and Chelsea's Oscar – yet such visits are the icing on the cake following years of work.
They will remember birthday party themes and that my youngest son wanted a Dora the Explorer purple princess cake two years in a row.
These will look great on your cake and years later when you pull them out of the closet for another look.
"I've been selling Hef cakes for years," she said.
"Pam buys me a birthday cake every year," Gabrielle Palay, a friend from elementary school, said.
"People had been posting pictures of ugly cakes for years, so I just started collecting them," she said.
