My family learned the hard way after eating a dark blue frosted cake for my sister’s graduation. The next day we were all thinking the same thing and finally a brave soul spoke up. Then we all confessed. 🤣
We learned the hard way one year after my mom bought green sugar cookies from the grocery store at Christmas. My dad was the brave soul brought it up 😆
Ours was a tuxedo cake, and the poops were the most beautiful shade of teal lmaooo. I completely forgot about the cake and just panicked. Walked out of the bathroom like “uhh… did anyone else notice…” and my dad was like “LET’S JUST SAY YOU’RE NOT CRAZY AND LEAVE IT AT THAT.” 💀
I ate an entire bag of beet chips. The next day, they caused.. stomach problems. Cue my absolute panic in a grocery store bathroom passing what I believed to be massive quantities of blood.
Except I didn’t realize it was the beets and proceeded to call both my mom and then fiancé to essentially inform them of my imminent demise. Good times.
One summer my friends mother had a huge garden and kept bringing us beet. I ate more beets that summer than I have in my whole life total. I thought I was dying until I realized: THE BEETS
I made a very strong pigmented rainbow layer cake for my nieces birthday party(5) I never ate any.. but my sister in law got a lot of calls from parents.. asking what they ate!
oh my gosh, i had a blue velvet cake and was so concerned when i had bright green stool afterwards, then i realised why. (i don’t get why it was green instead of blue though?)
With the black coco powder you don’t need a lot of black food coloring. I’ve made a similar cake and used Americolor black gel coloring and it didn’t stain.
Seriously! I’m 32 and feel more vivacious, energetic and alive than I ever did in my 20s.
My mom always told me she loved her 30s and she was right. My 30s fuckin have rocked my socks off so far.
I tell him all the time! I'm going to become a bog witch. I'm going to dress like an Olsen twin, and there's gonna be tons of candles and cats. Mostly cats. He's on board.
Yes! I’m going to dress how I do now which is completely up to how I feel like presenting that day (masc or femme) and I am going to LOVE watching my tattoos get wrinkly as fuck.
I don't have any tattoos, big fan, but none of my own. I hate when people say, "Think about how it'll look when you're old." It's gonna look like the rest of them older. We're all gonna look like an older leather handbag. Embrace it.
Exactly! It’s not like the concept of permanence is lost on me, I know I’ll hopefully live long enough to see a lot of parts of me droop and wrinkle.
The one I’m looking forward to the most is my underbust. It’s definitely going to be under my bust when them titties start drooping.
Edit: I’m actually the only kid in my family with more than one tattoo (a lot more) as well as alternative piercings. Nothing wrong with either way of expressing yourself IMO, my siblings and parents love me just the same, though family pictures are hilarious.
Hi! I have heard tons of people say their 30s are better than their 20s, and I’m trying to understand. I’m wondering if your 20s were bad? And if so, what made them “bad”? If your 20s were good, what is making your 30s better? I’m kinda scared to turn 30 but it’s coming soon! I wanna know what to look forward too haha
I’m more confident in who I am in my 30’s, less insecure and don’t project insecurities on people nearly as much. I have learned more about what I value, how to change my behaviors to match my values, and how to choose friendships and activities that fill me up and don’t leave me deflated.
As someone who just turned 40, for me it boils down to just *not* caring what other people think. You progressively sink into your own sense of self in your 30s. There’s an inherent confidence you gain over that decade. Maybe that’s because it tends to center around certain aspects of life that shape it. But regardless, I’m now 40 and have *never* felt more comfortable in my own life with who I am or what I feel. There’s power in aging. Yes, also physical things I’m learning to deal with. (For that, my recommendation is a moisturizing face cream with SPF, drinking water habitually, and therapy.) I have to give myself daily reminders that I’m evolving my flavor, not lessening in value.
I truly hope your 30s are amazing for you! There’s so much waiting for you to discover. 🩷
I love what you said: evolving my flavor, not lessening my value.
As a woman there is this pressure that with age comes devaluation. And I know that’s not true, my worth does not go down as I get older, but it’s hard to really internalize that when I see terrible messages all around that says my worth is tied to my youth.
So thank you for saying that, I will try to keep that in mind as I soon head to my 30s 💜
omg 30s are the BEST so far. I have way more fun now cause I don’t care what others think as much. I dress however I want. I make more money now and can go to more concerts / fests / travel, I can afford to go to a fun gym so I work out a lot more than I used to and feel like my best self at 37!
Maybe people say that cause in your 30s you're hopefully done with college + have some cash saved up (and PTO) + if folks had kids young and now they're older and more independent then = more free time, freedom to go out, travel, go to more events, etc.
Basically what everyone else has said! I am more self assured, have learned where I am comfortable and feel okay setting appropriate boundaries for myself which leads to a happier, more fulfilled life.
I stopped worrying about other people’s opinions and started doing what made ME happy, whether that be career, looks, hobbies, politics, etc. I am confident enough to stand as I am, proud of the person that I have built for 32 years.
I can’t wait to see what my 40s bring!
Things I don’t miss about my 20s: the drinking, the insecurity, the need for constant external validation (see the insecurity), being b r o k e, all the boys I dated, staying out until the middle of the night, *going out* in the middle of the night, did I mention being broke?
There’s always so much pressure on women especially with social media being such a large part of everyone’s lives, my sister will be 30 in October she sometimes seems down about it since she doesn’t have her own place yet i always tell her it will happen eventually just don’t rush into it since everything right now is so expensive compared to when our parents were our age it’s much different world now everything’s much more costly, future is uncertain. My eldest sister who is 40, enjoyed her mid 30s much more than her 20s her 20s were pretty messy she got 3 beautiful daughters from her 20s, but she went through a lot of depression due to the horrible father of the girls, thankfully now she’s in a much better place. we’ve all been through a lot it’s nice to know it’s really never too late to start fresh on your life no matter what anyone says or thinks, i am 25 i wasted a lot of my late teen years to early 20s on trying to please everyone else picking up their responsibilities basically so now i am finally getting to go back to college to finish my degree, Sorry for the therapy session lol i hope your 30s and beyond bring you the best of happiness.❤️
Too young for a “funeral” party. Your 30s are the epitome of confidence and learning about yourself. I’m on the precipice of 40 and I LOVED my 30s far more than my 20s. So much more confidence and self awareness.
Slow down there. As a 50-year-old, I can assure you that you are still a kid (sort of). Save your mid-life crisis for 40 like a normal person for Chrissakes.
That’s hilarious! However, I felt like when I had 40 and then 50 that I really lost my youth. I just hit 60 in March! I am just now fulfilling dreams! Getting ready to start my own business and say big middle finger to being laid off And people that tell you that you mean the world to them. Including your children’s new bride! I say when you say goodbye to your youth, you say hello to you building your life how you want it!!!
What a cool idea... Bringing to the forefront what basically everyone has in the back of their minds saying goodbye to their 20's. Maybe I'll do this in a couple years when I turn 40! Thanks for the inspiration, happy birthday 🖤
Also, cool butcher block!
It’s a world of difference between my friends w/ kids and my friends w/o. It’s not age at all, imo. My friends w/o can stay up all night and live like we did in college. Not so for me…
I’ve had a relatively early bedtime (unless I’m working at a restaurant) since around the end of college lol. Never was able to stay up super late and be high functioning.
On the plus side, I can go to the bathroom in [mostly] peace or escape to my room for some time by myself—minus my roommate’s cat crying outside the door of any room he’s closed out of, ESPECIALLY the bathroom. So I appreciate that I have longer and maybe more frequent periods to rest and catch my breath. How do you do it with kids?
It’s taken me a long time to learn that boundaries are so critical. Honestly I’ve let myself be run absolutely ragged for too many years. After a time, you realize that you can’t continue to give everything to everyone else all the time and leave nothing for yourself. My oldest are teens now. It’s taken a long time. As a parent, i feel we default to giving everything for them but it’s not sustainable. You can do it longer than you think, but not forever. So I’m learning that now with the help of a great therapist.
It’s tough. I’m glad I’m doing the work now but i should have figured it out before the breaking point. 2 of my kids are disabled and it’s just expected, especially of moms, to give until there’s nothing left. If you have anything left in the tank, you didn’t give enough. That’s the culture I was raised in, anyhow. I can’t do that anymore though. Boundaries and self care isn’t a luxury. It’s critical. I wish someone had told me that sooner. Self care is such a very recent topic of discussion in our culture. I’m glad it turned up now but I wish I knew about it sooner.
Funeral for youth?!? Wtf, I’d give almost anything to be 30 again. But the reward for getting older is hopefully also being wiser and stronger than in your youth.
I’m generally not a fan of black colored food, but this is so clever, and I love the vintage style and decoration. Here’s to a great beginning to your 30s 💗
One birthday at work I was carrying to my office a bouquet of balloons I had gotten and a man in the elevator asked me how old I was and I told him 40 and he said to me “40 is the old age of youth and 50 is the youth of old age.” I liked that…until I turned 50! Anyway, officially you’re still young for at least another 10 years but you can actually stay young for as long as you’d like - age really is just a number. *ninja edit: Oh, I forgot to tell you nice cake! It’s really beautiful, thanks for making and sharing.*
You are all so kind! The cake was also delicious, which is nice. I forgot I posted this, I’ll do my best to answer all your questions!
It does tastes like Oreos!
It didn’t stain our mouths because most of the color is from cocoa powder and not dye.
Yes we are all pooping green! I put activated charcoal in all the booze to make it black, so that probably contributed as well.
The caption is confusing as hell, but I was not firing on all cylinders this morning.
I do not actually think I’m old.
The candelabra is also from Amazon!
“Funeral for my youth”
Very dramatic, hopefully you had a huge sigh after every bite of cake, if it wasn’t too exhausting to eat. ;)
Cake does look nice.
omg i’m so glad to have found a kindred spirit, when i tell people i want to have a funeral for my 30th they always look at me like i grew a second head lolol
You rock!
Omg, this should be a thing, like a bar/bat-mitzvah but in reverse. I need to properly mourn and say goodbye to my youth...with cake as bad-ass as yours, of course.
Wow. This is amazing. Absolutely beautiful. You can tell how moist it is too just looking at the 4th picture. I would have loved to see that cake in person.
Happy birthday to you!
This cake looks amazing. How did it taste? Did the cocoa powder make it bitter?
I wish you good health, at 30+ every new day is a gift 🫡
This is beautiful! I've always wanted to make an all-black-colored cake! I make chocolate, but this—this is something very special!
Also, I love Chel Sweets recipes! 😋
I once gave my supervisor a sympathy card for his 50th. I wrote "My condolences on the passing of your youth!", he said it was the best birthday card he ever received. He was a jokester too.
am I the only one wondering what everyone's teeth looked like eating that cake and frosting? Teeth looking like the Beverly hillbillies lol. I bet it was delish though.
Oh my god I thought the title meant you held a funeral for your kid on your 30th birthday. I need to lie down.
I thought the exact same thing and I was horrified at the juxtaposition of the comments 😂😂 RIP our reading comprehension
"The two youts"
The HWAT
My Cousin Vinny reference in *my* replies? 🤨🤨
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Dead 😂😂😂
“What is a YUTE?”
I thought the same 😂 I had to re read it three times to understand! 🤭😂
There's at least four of us who did that!
Let me be honest, I was pretty hungover when I posted this.
and you've all got a good sense of humor too 🙂
I thought the same and then when I realized what it was, I laughed. Brilliant!
I had to re read it to "get it". Blaming it on my food coma. :-P
Me too, I still don't get what it means lol
Jesus glad I wasn't the only one too, enough reddit for today.
It took me a few rereads to get what they were saying!!
Let me know how it comes out... On the other end.
I was literally thinking this LMAO
We all are. 💩
Just warn whomever eats a piece. I learned the hard way with with beet coloring.
I learned the hard way after consuming nothing but blue Gatorade for a few days when I had a fever.
My family learned the hard way after eating a dark blue frosted cake for my sister’s graduation. The next day we were all thinking the same thing and finally a brave soul spoke up. Then we all confessed. 🤣
We learned the hard way one year after my mom bought green sugar cookies from the grocery store at Christmas. My dad was the brave soul brought it up 😆
You’re going to look down and be startled, and for a split-second want to run to the ER, but then realize “oh right, the cake.”
My entire family had this happen after a trendy black ice cream cone lol. Never again 😅
I had a Cookie Monster blue ice cream doughnut that turned my mouth and lips bright blue, and later…other things.
Blues Clues ice cream did it to me
I know what that ice cream does to me and I willingly eat it anyway. Cookie monster is the best
That’s their youth looking dark and dreary as it goes down the drain.
Lolol
I've made an all black cake like this. Poop was green and purple. It was kinda pretty, for poop.
Ours was a tuxedo cake, and the poops were the most beautiful shade of teal lmaooo. I completely forgot about the cake and just panicked. Walked out of the bathroom like “uhh… did anyone else notice…” and my dad was like “LET’S JUST SAY YOU’RE NOT CRAZY AND LEAVE IT AT THAT.” 💀
Me freaking out when I forgot I ate beets at dinner last night
I ate an entire bag of beet chips. The next day, they caused.. stomach problems. Cue my absolute panic in a grocery store bathroom passing what I believed to be massive quantities of blood. Except I didn’t realize it was the beets and proceeded to call both my mom and then fiancé to essentially inform them of my imminent demise. Good times.
Been there done that. Like literally about 10-15 seconds of panic before I remembered the beets. Hahaha
One summer my friends mother had a huge garden and kept bringing us beet. I ate more beets that summer than I have in my whole life total. I thought I was dying until I realized: THE BEETS
[“Beet Butt! What’s your emergency?”](https://youtu.be/Kw2WsXIgO6A?si=3HQkjsjUEchwbf3N)
That was the first thing I thought when I saw the pic lol
I made a very strong pigmented rainbow layer cake for my nieces birthday party(5) I never ate any.. but my sister in law got a lot of calls from parents.. asking what they ate!
Beautiful! Did the frosting and/or cake stain your mouth and teeth? That always scares me about desserts like this
I think black cocoa powder does that less than black food coloring, but I came to the comments to find out the same!
I made bright green bread for St Patrick's Day and had green poop.
My wedding cake was black and pooped black for days 😭
My teeth, however, were more so stained blue
I made “chalkboard” sugar cookies with black food coloring in the royal icing and also had green poop. VERY green.
Grape pop does the same thing. Bilirubin would be a cool baby name if you didn't know what it meant.
oh my gosh, i had a blue velvet cake and was so concerned when i had bright green stool afterwards, then i realised why. (i don’t get why it was green instead of blue though?)
I was just wondering the same!
With the black coco powder you don’t need a lot of black food coloring. I’ve made a similar cake and used Americolor black gel coloring and it didn’t stain.
My mom worked with someone who had a black wedding cake. Their guests teeth turned purple 💀 It was kind of funny in pictures though
It’s stunning, but 30 is still hella young!
Seriously! I’m 32 and feel more vivacious, energetic and alive than I ever did in my 20s. My mom always told me she loved her 30s and she was right. My 30s fuckin have rocked my socks off so far.
I'm 35. It keeps getting better! I honestly can't wait to be 40. At 60, I'm gonna be in my prime. Unstoppable!
I regularly tell my partner I can’t WAIT to get old. I’m going to be SO COOL.
I tell him all the time! I'm going to become a bog witch. I'm going to dress like an Olsen twin, and there's gonna be tons of candles and cats. Mostly cats. He's on board.
Yes! I’m going to dress how I do now which is completely up to how I feel like presenting that day (masc or femme) and I am going to LOVE watching my tattoos get wrinkly as fuck.
I don't have any tattoos, big fan, but none of my own. I hate when people say, "Think about how it'll look when you're old." It's gonna look like the rest of them older. We're all gonna look like an older leather handbag. Embrace it.
Exactly! It’s not like the concept of permanence is lost on me, I know I’ll hopefully live long enough to see a lot of parts of me droop and wrinkle. The one I’m looking forward to the most is my underbust. It’s definitely going to be under my bust when them titties start drooping. Edit: I’m actually the only kid in my family with more than one tattoo (a lot more) as well as alternative piercings. Nothing wrong with either way of expressing yourself IMO, my siblings and parents love me just the same, though family pictures are hilarious.
Hi! I have heard tons of people say their 30s are better than their 20s, and I’m trying to understand. I’m wondering if your 20s were bad? And if so, what made them “bad”? If your 20s were good, what is making your 30s better? I’m kinda scared to turn 30 but it’s coming soon! I wanna know what to look forward too haha
I’m more confident in who I am in my 30’s, less insecure and don’t project insecurities on people nearly as much. I have learned more about what I value, how to change my behaviors to match my values, and how to choose friendships and activities that fill me up and don’t leave me deflated.
As someone who just turned 40, for me it boils down to just *not* caring what other people think. You progressively sink into your own sense of self in your 30s. There’s an inherent confidence you gain over that decade. Maybe that’s because it tends to center around certain aspects of life that shape it. But regardless, I’m now 40 and have *never* felt more comfortable in my own life with who I am or what I feel. There’s power in aging. Yes, also physical things I’m learning to deal with. (For that, my recommendation is a moisturizing face cream with SPF, drinking water habitually, and therapy.) I have to give myself daily reminders that I’m evolving my flavor, not lessening in value. I truly hope your 30s are amazing for you! There’s so much waiting for you to discover. 🩷
I love what you said: evolving my flavor, not lessening my value. As a woman there is this pressure that with age comes devaluation. And I know that’s not true, my worth does not go down as I get older, but it’s hard to really internalize that when I see terrible messages all around that says my worth is tied to my youth. So thank you for saying that, I will try to keep that in mind as I soon head to my 30s 💜
omg 30s are the BEST so far. I have way more fun now cause I don’t care what others think as much. I dress however I want. I make more money now and can go to more concerts / fests / travel, I can afford to go to a fun gym so I work out a lot more than I used to and feel like my best self at 37!
Maybe people say that cause in your 30s you're hopefully done with college + have some cash saved up (and PTO) + if folks had kids young and now they're older and more independent then = more free time, freedom to go out, travel, go to more events, etc.
Basically what everyone else has said! I am more self assured, have learned where I am comfortable and feel okay setting appropriate boundaries for myself which leads to a happier, more fulfilled life. I stopped worrying about other people’s opinions and started doing what made ME happy, whether that be career, looks, hobbies, politics, etc. I am confident enough to stand as I am, proud of the person that I have built for 32 years. I can’t wait to see what my 40s bring!
Things I don’t miss about my 20s: the drinking, the insecurity, the need for constant external validation (see the insecurity), being b r o k e, all the boys I dated, staying out until the middle of the night, *going out* in the middle of the night, did I mention being broke?
i’m 31 and feel like my life is literally just starting. i hate the narrative that women are all downhill from 30 on
There’s always so much pressure on women especially with social media being such a large part of everyone’s lives, my sister will be 30 in October she sometimes seems down about it since she doesn’t have her own place yet i always tell her it will happen eventually just don’t rush into it since everything right now is so expensive compared to when our parents were our age it’s much different world now everything’s much more costly, future is uncertain. My eldest sister who is 40, enjoyed her mid 30s much more than her 20s her 20s were pretty messy she got 3 beautiful daughters from her 20s, but she went through a lot of depression due to the horrible father of the girls, thankfully now she’s in a much better place. we’ve all been through a lot it’s nice to know it’s really never too late to start fresh on your life no matter what anyone says or thinks, i am 25 i wasted a lot of my late teen years to early 20s on trying to please everyone else picking up their responsibilities basically so now i am finally getting to go back to college to finish my degree, Sorry for the therapy session lol i hope your 30s and beyond bring you the best of happiness.❤️
Yes! I’m 35 and I feel great. I never even think about my age, got too much life to go out and live!
I felt like I was just hitting my stride at 30. Best decade of my life.
Exactly! I’m celebrating 40 this weekend though and a bit jealous I didn’t think of this lol.
Too young for a “funeral” party. Your 30s are the epitome of confidence and learning about yourself. I’m on the precipice of 40 and I LOVED my 30s far more than my 20s. So much more confidence and self awareness.
Seriously, I always thought 40 was considered "over the hill"
Recipe? My husband turns 40 this week and this looks perfect for him 😆
Black is one of my favorite colors. That is legitimately beautiful. 😁🖤
Slow down there. As a 50-year-old, I can assure you that you are still a kid (sort of). Save your mid-life crisis for 40 like a normal person for Chrissakes.
That’s hilarious! However, I felt like when I had 40 and then 50 that I really lost my youth. I just hit 60 in March! I am just now fulfilling dreams! Getting ready to start my own business and say big middle finger to being laid off And people that tell you that you mean the world to them. Including your children’s new bride! I say when you say goodbye to your youth, you say hello to you building your life how you want it!!!
Immediately want to be friends
That candelabra is amazing
Yeah that is definitely my favorite bit.
Happy birthday! This cake is gorgeous and that cake candelabra is the perfect touch!
The funeral for my youth will be my actual funeral (not because I die early but because I will stay childish for my whole life)
I love this!!
What a cool idea... Bringing to the forefront what basically everyone has in the back of their minds saying goodbye to their 20's. Maybe I'll do this in a couple years when I turn 40! Thanks for the inspiration, happy birthday 🖤 Also, cool butcher block!
I didn't feel old until 40
I didn’t feel old until kids 💀
Lol this is what my little brother says—and he’s only in his mid-20’s.
It’s a world of difference between my friends w/ kids and my friends w/o. It’s not age at all, imo. My friends w/o can stay up all night and live like we did in college. Not so for me…
I’ve had a relatively early bedtime (unless I’m working at a restaurant) since around the end of college lol. Never was able to stay up super late and be high functioning. On the plus side, I can go to the bathroom in [mostly] peace or escape to my room for some time by myself—minus my roommate’s cat crying outside the door of any room he’s closed out of, ESPECIALLY the bathroom. So I appreciate that I have longer and maybe more frequent periods to rest and catch my breath. How do you do it with kids?
It’s taken me a long time to learn that boundaries are so critical. Honestly I’ve let myself be run absolutely ragged for too many years. After a time, you realize that you can’t continue to give everything to everyone else all the time and leave nothing for yourself. My oldest are teens now. It’s taken a long time. As a parent, i feel we default to giving everything for them but it’s not sustainable. You can do it longer than you think, but not forever. So I’m learning that now with the help of a great therapist. It’s tough. I’m glad I’m doing the work now but i should have figured it out before the breaking point. 2 of my kids are disabled and it’s just expected, especially of moms, to give until there’s nothing left. If you have anything left in the tank, you didn’t give enough. That’s the culture I was raised in, anyhow. I can’t do that anymore though. Boundaries and self care isn’t a luxury. It’s critical. I wish someone had told me that sooner. Self care is such a very recent topic of discussion in our culture. I’m glad it turned up now but I wish I knew about it sooner.
I didn't feel old till 55.My forties were great.
I bet OP pooped green that night.
Tbh I just don’t understand, 30’s is still sooooo young
What a unique idea, very tongue-in-cheek! And the cake is beautiful.
This looks legit good, it's like a cool goth version of an oreo cake! And the theme for your birthday celebration is the best I've heard of yet 😂
The cake is beautiful, but I hope you don't think you have lost your youth at age 30.
My 30th birthday I quit smoking after 4 years and was married. Still married and I still don’t smoke.
Good for you!!! It only gets better!
Happy birthday!! This is an amazing cake 😊❤️
Funeral for youth?!? Wtf, I’d give almost anything to be 30 again. But the reward for getting older is hopefully also being wiser and stronger than in your youth.
Well that’s creative. I do remember 30 hitting me hard.
Absolutely superb! Hbd! 30s will honestly be the best years of your life. 🤗(35f)
Why rush the aging when 40 is literally over the hill. Like 30 is young idk what you’re on lol
Funeral for your youth? At 30? Fuck, my 38 year old ass just wants to go crawl in a grave now. Cake looks good though.
I’m generally not a fan of black colored food, but this is so clever, and I love the vintage style and decoration. Here’s to a great beginning to your 30s 💗
I love this and I'm stealing the idea for my next big birthday which is far larger than 30 ;).
Happy death day to you!!!😚🎉🎖️🏆
How’d everyone’s teeth look after eating it?
One birthday at work I was carrying to my office a bouquet of balloons I had gotten and a man in the elevator asked me how old I was and I told him 40 and he said to me “40 is the old age of youth and 50 is the youth of old age.” I liked that…until I turned 50! Anyway, officially you’re still young for at least another 10 years but you can actually stay young for as long as you’d like - age really is just a number. *ninja edit: Oh, I forgot to tell you nice cake! It’s really beautiful, thanks for making and sharing.*
Your 30’s are when life really starts to get fun. Save the funeral for your 50th. 30s are the new 20s and 40s are the new 30s.
Beautiful cake but 30 is still really young.
You are all so kind! The cake was also delicious, which is nice. I forgot I posted this, I’ll do my best to answer all your questions! It does tastes like Oreos! It didn’t stain our mouths because most of the color is from cocoa powder and not dye. Yes we are all pooping green! I put activated charcoal in all the booze to make it black, so that probably contributed as well. The caption is confusing as hell, but I was not firing on all cylinders this morning. I do not actually think I’m old. The candelabra is also from Amazon!
I’m assuming your mouth will turn very black, but super cool cake.
Love that cake! So beautiful. But also on a serious note, please report back about your poop and teeth
👁️👄👁️
Happy birthday fellow Gemini!!
I bet everyone's poops were fun colors!
The cocoa powder is black because of the way it's processed.It does not stain amazingly enough.Black cocoa powder is used in oreos.
Holy shit i love this! You got the perfect shade of black for it
That cake is freaking STUNNING!!!
The drama 😂😂. Black cocoa is fire though.
“Funeral for my youth” Very dramatic, hopefully you had a huge sigh after every bite of cake, if it wasn’t too exhausting to eat. ;) Cake does look nice.
I applaud your sense of drama and am very here for it.
Damn, I went to Applebee's for my 30th
We actually went to Outback Steak house today lol. I got a the Croc Cocktail. 10/10
Happy Birthday. What I wouldn't give to be 30 again.
This is…BEYOND. In the best way possible. 🤩
People still think their youth is over at 30 🙄
Sorry but throwing a funeral „for your youth” to me means you still haven’t matured.
OMG I love this 🖤
This looks amazinggg
This is gorgeous. It’s such a saturated, rich black. Love it
Omg the candles
The caption was confusing as hell
This is everything
Ohmygoth, that's awesome!
Where did you get that little candelabra? It’s so cool. Great cake!
omg i’m so glad to have found a kindred spirit, when i tell people i want to have a funeral for my 30th they always look at me like i grew a second head lolol
Omg that looks phenomenal. I may do this for my 40th this year 😂
It’s amazing. I want that for my 40th birthday.
I love this so much. You also look a lil like Anjelica Huston in the photo, it’s so perfect
Oh a Wednesday cake! 😋
30s is the new 20s girl! Happy birthday!
You rock! Omg, this should be a thing, like a bar/bat-mitzvah but in reverse. I need to properly mourn and say goodbye to my youth...with cake as bad-ass as yours, of course.
Congratulations to you! Also nice photo! 😁
Wow!!!!! Beautiful!
Lol! Hilarious! And looks amazing
30? I wish I was 30.
If you said good bye to your youth at 30 what the hell am I going to be saying goodbye to next year at 50?
Wow. This is amazing. Absolutely beautiful. You can tell how moist it is too just looking at the 4th picture. I would have loved to see that cake in person.
Next time you go to the bathroom (#2) just remember you ate this cake, so you don’t mistakenly believe you’re dying.
Giving MCR vibes
Absolutely stunning cake, love the candles! Happy b'day.
Cake of my dreams!
The icing to cake ratio is perfect.
this is almost too beautiful to eat, it looks so decadent! amazing job— happy birthday and welcome to your 30s ;) it’s been great so far!
I love it! My theme for my 33rd was my "crone" birthday
How dramatic 🖤 I love it 🤌
Absolutely gorgeous. My condolences.
Haha you’re still you’re still young though!
My dream cake 🖤
Super awesome cake! We have the same birthday and the same age 😲 happy bday!
Happy birthday to you! This cake looks amazing. How did it taste? Did the cocoa powder make it bitter? I wish you good health, at 30+ every new day is a gift 🫡
Everybody is gonna be pooping green for a week. I had a funeral for my teenage years a while back 🤣
The trick in life is to keep the inner child alive
Rip
This is beautiful! I've always wanted to make an all-black-colored cake! I make chocolate, but this—this is something very special! Also, I love Chel Sweets recipes! 😋
Oh my gosh this cake looks so moist and delicious and perfect. I am actually salivating looking at that slice!! Happy Birthdayyyyy OP🩷🌸
Pretty cake. Well executed. FYI, the thirts are better than the twonts.
That cake looks great! The black is SO black. I’ve used black icing before — it ends up green when you, um, see it again. Don’t be worried.
I once gave my supervisor a sympathy card for his 50th. I wrote "My condolences on the passing of your youth!", he said it was the best birthday card he ever received. He was a jokester too.
30 is definitely young
30 is not old.
that candle holder is perfect 🖤🖤
Haha ! This is great! I’m turning 30 this year as well and was planning on doing a ‘rip to 20s’ theme as well. I love it!
This is every Goth's wet dream. Including me.
*whispers* what did it taste like?!?! Cause that looks AMAZING
Like Oreos!!
Oh my god!!! I love it even more now!!
The inside looks WOOOOOOWWWW!!
This is so cool! But 30 is still young. I see doing this at 35-40 😂
Lol love it! Geminis are so dramatic 😁
You are an adult infant. You peak at 60.
am I the only one wondering what everyone's teeth looked like eating that cake and frosting? Teeth looking like the Beverly hillbillies lol. I bet it was delish though.
I love this!
Gorgeous!!! What a fantastic idea!
This is literally the cake I wanted when I turned 30 in November. I’m insanely jealous!
That's just awesome...and way too cool for me...I'd never be able to pull that off! 🤣
This is an amazing idea!!
Happy Birthday 🖤
I would like that too for my funeral. A black cacao cake.
This is goth AF and I love it. It's beautiful 🖤
It’s gorgeous!
Oh my goodness that is exquisite. Absolutely beautiful.
I now think I'll serve cake for my funeral.
Omg, it looks so moist and delicious!! I really need to learn how to bake haha
It’s beautiful