Beyoncé Celebrated Her Birthday With a Queen B-Inspired Geode Cake
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Beyoncé rang in her 36th birthday, known to the rest of us mere mortals as “Bey Day,” with a geode cake fit for a queen.
The gem-inspired cake—that began gaining popularity in 2016 for its Instagrammable marbled effect—was created by local Philadelphia bakery Cake Life Bake Shop and delivered to the Made in America festival, where Beyoncé was performing and, by default, celebrating her big day. According to Philadelphia Magazine, the team at Cake Life had no idea they were making a cake for Bey herself when the project was first commissioned. Lilly Fischer, the shop’s co-owner, reportedly got a “mysterious” request to create a black and yellow layer cake in the popular geode style that was to be delivered to the music festival. She apparently did a bit of digging, and eventually realized who the request had come from.
“It was pretty amazing,” Fischer told the magazine. “Everyone here knows that I love Beyoncé…pretty much the whole week we just blasted Beyoncé.”
When it came to creating the confectionary masterpiece, Fischer and her team had total “creative freedom” with the design. They created a three-tier honey and lavender flavored cake and decorated it with edible sugar crystals and gold crown-shaped cookies inspired by Bey’s 2017 Grammys’ performance, Philly Mag reports. TBA on how much the cake cost (“a pretty penny,” was all Fisher would reveal).
The gem of a cake wasn’t the only epic birthday treat Bey received on September 4: In honor of her special day, her family and closest friends—including Serena Williams, Michelle Obama, and Kelly Rowland—recreated the iconic hat-and-braids look from her Formation video to raise money for Hurricane Harvey relief. And in case that wasn’t enough, hubby Jay Z led the Made In America crowd through a massive rendition of “Happy Birthday” before it was time to dig into the geode.
If Beyoncé herself were ever recreated in cake form, this would 100% be it. We are not worthy.
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