When Alison Feigh gazed into the eyes of her soon-to-be 3-year-old and asked her what kind of cake she wanted, the answer was not surprising. Leona said her cake should be built around her favorite “Lion King” character, Mufasa. After all, it’s her fave, and she knows the words to each song. But then it turned dark. There was a twist: She wanted him dead. The girl requested that the cake ...
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Kids say the darndest things, or so we are told. Sometimes cakes say the darndest things, especially the birthday cakes of 3-year-olds. Still, there’s a logic to kid-based and cake-based communications that makes perfect sense. Take birthday girl Leona, for example, who demanded a birthday cake that featured one of cinema’s saddest scenes depicted in all its fondant glory. The reason: More cake, obviously.
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How does this all work? First, Leona asked for a
Lion King-themed cake in what is easily one of the most adorable/ingenious crimes in recent memory. Hakuna matata. Nothing strange about that. But as her uncle, actor and filmmaker Casey Feigh, who tweeted images of the cake over the weekend, tells it, there was a bit more going on than meets the eye.