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Happy Birthday! Creative Cakes through the Years

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Thanks to my old roomies for this yummy classic! Birthday cakes are a great tradition, especially the not so traditional kinds. You may have seen how I like to take my baked goods in creative and often nerdy directions with the Firefly inspired  Jayne Hat Bundt Cake , the Psych Pineapple Upside Down Cake , the Final Fantasy 6 (FFVI) Ultros Cake , and the yummy and surprising  Pinata Cake , but that's hardly the tip of the iceberg. To help celebrate my own recent birthday, here are some birthday cake throwbacks to whet your appetites! Super Smash Bros., old school! My first ever nerd cake was way back in my tween years (before I had a digital camera to properly document the occasion). Thanks to my brothers who came before me, I got an early start as a nerd and modeled my cake loosely after Link's level in the original Super Smash Bros. Please note that this is right out of the N64 version - clearly I was on to something with King Dedede and Zelda!  The Zelda char