My blogging friend, John Rieber, gave me the terrific idea of doing a series of lockdown cakes. This is the fourth cake I’ve made with a lockdown / stay-at-home theme and it is my favourite to date.

This is one of the limericks that go with this cake:

He sat on his cellular phone in the room

Having just finished a meeting on Zoom

What a frightening sight

His expression, dark as night

The seed of a monster starting to bloom

By Robbie Cheadle

Just in case its not obvious to you, the child has huge eyes from so much screen time, mom has turned into a snake with a lashing tongue, and dad is the beast from Beauty and the Beast. The child is also starting to metamorphosis into a robot.

These cakes and the related limericks and twisted nursery rhymes are included in a new book of…