Mabel engineered this cake. I baked it and Sally helped Mabel frost it.
A flat rectangle foundation with a high (loaf pan) center, studded with cupcake watchtowers. It is an impenetrable fortress of cake. We covered it with candles as a belated birthday cake for Kathleen (on whose actual birthday we had ice cream in New London). When lit, it looked like the sacking of Rome.

Hopefully the image won’t portend hurricane-encumbered Connecticut this weekend.