A North Carolina husband truly thought “outside the box” for his wife’s birthday. He knew she just loved getting Amazon packages in the mail, and so he made sure his “package” to her was labeled accordingly.
Waylon “Mac” McGuire surprised his wife, Emily, with the birthday gift from “Amazon” on July 19, 2019. The package was not all as it seemed, however; the “cardboard” was made of icing sugar; the label, sugar and wafer paper; the entire box was a cake, custom-designed just for Emily.
And the impressive, and utterly hilarious, cake design has been garnering laughs, likes, and shares online thousands of times over.
To add cuteness to creativity, Mac had even requested that the address label read “Emily McGuire, 1234 Birthday Lane, Happy Birthday, 2U.”
Emily’s post was liked and shared tens of thousands of times. It was picked up by multiple media channels, and Emily was inundated with requests for interviews.
Mac, a military man, is stoic in the face of his wife’s hefty Amazon habit. On her birthday, Mac’s only ambition was to make his wife smile. But with his cake becoming an overnight viral sensation, he ended up achieving so much more.
Emily was so bowled over by the confectionary surprise and its response on the internet that she visited Sweet Dreams Bakery in person to meet the woman behind the baking.
Trena’s most unbelievable feat, Emily shared, was that every single bite of the cake was edible. Even the address label was made of sugar and wafer paper. The clever creation, for all its attention to detail, took a whopping eight hours to perfect.
We can’t wait to see whether the McGuires’ next birthday cake can match the viral infamy of the edible Amazon package. But for now, Emily is sated by the knowledge that her husband knows her better than anyone.
