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My friend Curt turned the big 50 recently. His wife Kristi and fam­ily threw him a party in Omaha’s Old Mar­ket area. I offered to make the cake and also wanted to sur­prise him by just show­ing up at the party.

I made him a four layer chocolate/yellow mar­ble cake with a mild cof­fee flavoured ganache as fill­ing. I also cov­ered the cake in a ganache frost­ing and made choco­late tomb­stones as dec­o­ra­tion. The board was also cov­ered in a swirl of dif­fer­ent coloured choco­late. My hus­band and I packed the cake in a heavy duty box sur­rounded by ice packs to make the long 500 mile jour­ney from Okla­homa City to Omaha Nebraska and set off about 4:30am on the Sat­ur­day morn­ing of the party.

The trip was going well until we were about 20 min­utes south of Wichita Kansas. It had been rain­ing heav­ily dur­ing the week and we totally dis­re­garded the Turn­pike truck with the big arrow on one of the side exit ramps. It wasn’t flash­ing or out in the mid­dle of the inter­state so all must be ok. Not two min­utes later the traf­fic came to a halt.

So we sat on Inter­state 35 North for an hour before a nice police offi­cer came to tell us that there was impass­able water over the road just ahead of us and we could drive up the inside of the trucks and turn through the 4ft high median where there was a break. Long story short… We arrived in Omaha about two hours late but they all got to enjoy the cake and Curt was really sur­prised. The restau­rant Chef said he and the staff thought it was one of the best cakes they had tasted in a long time! Yay! Happy Birth­day Curt xx.