The Best Birthday Cake Ever (Angry Birds Edition)

Erick Schonfeld

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Monday, February 21st, 2011

Anyone with kids and a touchscreen device (Android, iPhone, iPad) knows one truth: kids love Angry Birds. My own 6-year-old is obsessed with the game and is constantly draining the batteries on my iPad and iPhone to play the game. So I can totally relate to the inspired genius of Electric Pig’s Mike Cooper, who made his son an Angry Birds birthday cake and documented it in the YouTube video above.

The cake includes a slingshot, of course, and edible birds that can be flung at the columns and green edible pigs. Yes, you can play with this cake and eat it too. What more could a kid (or Dad) want?

(Note that it was the Dad who made this and thought it was a great idea, not the Mom. No word on who ended up cleaning up afterwards).

Product: Angry Birds
Website: rovio.com

Angry Birds is a puzzle video game developed by Rovio, a developer based in Finland. Since its release for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices, over 6.5 million copies of the game have been purchased, and versions have appeared for other touchscreen-based smartphones. In Angry Birds, players take control of a flock of birds that are attempting to retrieve eggs that have been stolen by a group of evil pigs. The pigs have taken refuge on or within structures made...

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