Where's The Cake?

Today, at work, as part of one of those kind of "forced jollity" events known as the staff birthday, there was an Ice Cream Cake served.

I watched it being cut and thought it looked interesting. There was chocolate ice cream on the bottom, then white cake, then white frosting. It had even been out of the freezer long enough so that the ice cream was "cut-able" as were the cake and frosting. It was, as far as I could tell, actually a decent birthday celebration for an office.

But, here's the thing: On top of the chocolate ice cream was a layer of "fudge" - actually a layer of kind of strangely crunchy darker chocolate - and then the frosting. Of course, that's if you can call the stuff frosting. It was a variation on a whipped cream frosting that was just a little too sweet.

So, are you following me on the "cake" side of things? Yep. That's right. There was no cake in the "cake." What we had was actually a badly-decorated frosted slab of chocolate ice cream. And, while I'm a fan of ice cream sundaes (in essence ice cream with whipped cream and toppings), the "cake" wasn't nearly as tasty as most sundaes.

Which, I guess, takes us right back to my contention that office birthday celebrations always leave something to be desired. Good to know some things never change.