Tom's birthday cake this year wasn't actually the first Super Mario themed one I've done, but it was the first one with a kind of abstract vertical narrative; the bottom scene is fat Mario surrounded by takeaway boxes and pizza etc, and the top one is thin Mario, planting a flag with his target weight on it onto a conquered of mountain of unhealthy foods.

It didn't actually need as much explaining as I'd feared - most of my icing jobs should come with footnotes anyway. Making the meringues under stress/in company was not the wisest move but they are the first ones I've made that don't look like small astronomical objects, so that's nice. Inside it was all sponge and jam, and got eaten despite being part of a cavalcade of cakes.