When we got married I kind of puzzled the baker (there was a language barrier, I'm American, she was Equadoran, working for a Swede) by asking for 1)chocolate cake with mocha icing, which is not too unusual, but for a moment she was under the misapprehension that we wanted a mocha icing on the outside, which would have been outside the usual color palette, and 2)a surface on the top where we could put the furry bride and groom mice that my little sister (then 11) had given me. I don't know what she was thinking originally, but when she finally understood, she laughed until she wept, and then said that she could put a marzipan disk on top for the mice. I had even brought the mice in for show and tell, so it shouldn't have been so difficult, but then clearly I brightened her day, so it's all good. It was delicious.
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When we got married I kind of puzzled the baker (there was a language barrier, I'm American, she was Equadoran, working for a Swede) by asking for 1)chocolate cake with mocha icing, which is not too unusual, but for a moment she was under the misapprehension that we wanted a mocha icing on the outside, which would have been outside the usual color palette, and 2)a surface on the top where we could put the furry bride and groom mice that my little sister (then 11) had given me. I don't know what she was thinking originally, but when she finally understood, she laughed until she wept, and then said that she could put a marzipan disk on top for the mice. I had even brought the mice in for show and tell, so it shouldn't have been so difficult, but then clearly I brightened her day, so it's all good. It was delicious.