Kawaii.

Today was Katie's birthday, and cuteness abounded. Check out the badass cake I decorated for her (Katie is the one with the cooking skills in this friendship, so baking her something was out of the question. I mean, she practically exists to fatten me up on Asian food).

Happy birthday from Toothpaste for Dinner! (ka-ZAM!)

HELP I IZ MELTING
The nearest grocery store didn't have any of that frosting stuff for writing on cakes, so I had to use chocolate syrup.

As I was buying the cake, the man behind me in line said, "May I ask what that is?"
I told him it was a cookie cake, and he was quite intrigued and said he'd never heard of such a novel idea. The thing was, this guy looked and sounded exactly like Christopher Walken. After a few minutes of chatting, I asked him if he was, in fact, Christopher Walken. He smiled and said that if... he was... he'd have... a cookie cake... every day.

In other things kawaii, I've got to give the Japanese credit for creating the cutest little burial mound guards that have ever existed. During the Kofun Period this guy, called a Haniwa warrior figure (Haniwa means cylindrical), would have been guarding graves. He's from the late Kofun period, fifth to mid-sixth century. He's featured in the Aikawa Archaeological Museum in Aikawa, Japan, and I'll be darned if I don't just want to take him home and make him into a Chia pet.