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I got great at making birthday cakes.
I started making birthday cakes when my kids were in preschool and they got more and more elaborate, to the point where I thought I could sell them.
I had been making birthday cakes as a hobby and became more and more obsessive about cake decorating, spending hours of my free time looking at cakes on Pinterest and learning new skills.
I found myself making birthday cake in a deserted house, following my younger son's terse, bewildering instructions ("monster, green, one eye, red claws, tail with fire") as best I could.
But as we get bored of extreme entertainment, we demand even greater extremes; before you know it ITV will commission All-Celebrity Lion Taunting, and we'll be making birthday arrangements to hurl ourselves out of an biplane while strapped to someone we've only just met.
For example, the artistic child can be assigned the "chore" of making birthday cards or place cards for family occasions; for the quieter child, perhaps the "chore" of helping with the cooking, getting one-on-one time with a parent while learning about the kitchen.
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"For me, it makes birthday and Christmas presents really easy.
He used to make birthday cakes, christening cakes and wedding cakes for everybody in the family and neighbors.
For instance, Dorot, which helps the elderly, will recruit children to make birthday cards for the aged.
The custom at my school, and many others like it, was to make birthday boys go "through the mill".
A lot. That's how Martine Fougeron ended up in the sugar-frosted, pineapple-stuffed warm world of Valencia Bakery, a South Bronx institution that has made birthday, baptism and wedding cakes for generations of jubilant Latinos.
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