Skillsets


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Yep.

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Yep.  Mmmhmm.

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Yeah.

I’ve made cakes before. Delicious, moist, fluffy cakes. Sometimes with frosting, sometimes glaze, sometimes with just a dusting of powdered sugar.
But I’ve never made a layer cake.  And we all know that presentation isn’t my strong suit.

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I’ve always wanted to do it–try my hand at making things look as pretty as they are delicious.
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I’m getting better at it, but when it matters, when all the money’s on the table, I call in the master.

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The man with a vision (and that whole spatial-awareness thing that I never got).

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The man who can freehand the Bat Signal.

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The man who can take my lopsided, haphazardly frosted (but delicious) cake wreck and turn it into art.

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So that when it matters,

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When it’s important,

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No one remembers that it tilted to one side.

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They remember the sweet Batman cake. And the even sweeter birthday boy.

Thanks for working on Father’s day, Nick. You make Batman proud.


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