Cookie Monogram Sprinkle Beard Cake

My dear friends Helen and Hannah are wonderful partners in both life and art. They recently won an esteemed Mayor’s Art Award here in Vancouver, and they launched Multiple Elementary, their book which “explores the elementary school classroom as a site of invention and reception of contemporary art practices.” Helen and I have had a long history of friendship – from farting around together at art school, to producing music/video art shows and to writing and performing in our old fantasy new wave synth-metal band Le Petit Mort. I wanted to celebrate her and Hannah’s most awesome achievements, and while my funfetti-layered cake didn’t quite start out as the SPRINKLEBEARD cake, it turned out to be kind of the cutest cookie monogram sprinkle beard cake possibly ever, hehe. Advice: just keep piling on the sprinkles and pray that your recipient likes them.

It was a rainy, dark and cold night in Vancouver and I thought I would have to draggggg Teddy out to Helen and Hannah’s book launch, but oddly, he was excited to go. Usually after school on a weekday he is the grumpiest of super-fatigued sloths, and understandably so, as I’ve seen him run laps around the playground at Kindergarten just for shits and giggles. But no, he turned out to be the ruling-est, most agreeable 5-year-old to ever grace an art book launch on a stormy wet and dark Wednesday evening…

Teddy helped hand out cake slices, he happily ate his slice sitting on the art gallery floor, and apparently during Helen and Hannah’s talk he was misting himself with his special and beloved “spritzing” Spiderman water bottle. When I asked him about this the next day, he simply told me “I wanted it look like I was sweating.”