Today, we're talking all about awesome birthday cakes. Everything from making your own to buying

pre-made cakes and jazzing them up to having epic cakes designed especially for your celebration.

The difference between an ordinary birthday cake and a spectacular one doesn't have to mean it takes

a ton of time or money. It's usually just some advanced planning and creative

thinking. I'm getting into donut hole tower cakes, ice cream cakes, cakes with candies that pour out the

middle, store-bought cakes with a ton of fun cake-toppers, epic cakes to perfectly match a theme,

and of course, one of my favorites, half birthday cakes.

The goal of this episode is to give you lots of ideas, so the next time you need a birthday

cake, it's extra awesome. Let's go.

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Today we're talking about one of the best ways I think there is to celebrate something,

especially a birthday.

We're talking about awesome birthday cakes.

I think awesome birthday cakes are everything.

It just makes everyone so happy. So the goal of this episode is to give you a bazillion ideas for how to make birthday cakes extra special. So I'm going to start with making your own birthday cakes at home. Then we're going to get

into kind of doing a hybrid. Like you have to do it yourself and you have buy stuff and a bunch of

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