Birthday Cake ala Fire!

For Mike's b-day, Savanna wanted to make her dad a birthday cake. She mixed the cake and let her brother Charles help decorate it. It was truly a work of art! Lots of blueberries and strawberrries. Savanna wanted to put 38 candles on the cake, but the box of candles only had 36. Charles, my thinker, proposed to put 2 sparklers on the cake to make a total of 38. "Sure, that will be fun," was my response. I was thinking it was going to be those candles that sparkle...well, Charles pulls out a box of sparklers and puts 2 on the cake. Clueless, I tell them to go ahead and light the candles. Where was my brain? They lit all the candles and waited for Mike to light the sparklers. Whoosh! the sparklers lit and my very intelligent hubby grabs the plate with the cake and heads toward the front door yelling, "The fire alarm is going to go off!" While he is hurrying out the door, the candles catch the stem of the sparkler on fire and it falls onto the cake among the quickly melting candles. Have you ever seen frosting burn? We made it outside safely without catching the house on fire and most of the cake was edible. It was quite a scene. We all enjoyed it with laughter except Savanna. She had worked so hard on making the cake and felt it turned into a flop. We did eat most of the cake (except for the black part) and we will always remember Dad's 38th birthday with birthday cake ala fire!