This First Person column is written by Christina Bagatavicius, a proud mom who lives in Toronto and runs a cultural consultancy. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.
Sometimes I like to make party cakes and, when I do, they are never humble affairs.
The first over-the-top cake I made was for my husband’s 39th birthday, and our entire family went “all in” on a prehistoric dinosaur volcano cake with six layers of towering cake rounds. The volcano base was a velvety layer of brown fondant that looked like a high school science experiment. There were menacing