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Husband surprises wife with Amazon box birthday cake
I guess you could say this was the “prime” gift for her.
Cedric Jackson
08.07.19

Have you ever loved something so much that you made your birthday cake to look like it? That’s exactly what one husband did for his wife. But she has a very specific interest: Amazon shopping.

Emily McGuire is a photographer and Amazon enthusiast. She gets two to three packages every week, so it only made sense that when her birthday arrived, her husband ordered her a very special cake.

The chocolate cake looked like an Amazon package down to the brown “packaging” and the detailed USPS label.

The bakery even managed to replicate the Amazon Prime tape that all of McGuire’s boxes come wrapped in.

McGuire says her husband is well aware of her passion for Amazon shopping, but she still occasionally hides the odd package from him.

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When McGuire saw the cake, she said she thought it was a real Amazon package.

When she realized what it was, she burst out laughing.

“At first, I thought it was a box, then when I realized it wasn’t, I laughed so hard. I really felt like he finally gets me!” she said. “Now it’s a running joke in our house about how many packages we receive in the mail.”

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The cake was made by Sweet Dreams Bakery in Dunn, North Carolina.

The team there combined their talent and creativity to create McGuire’s cake. Not only was it beautiful and delicious, but it also paid tribute to a quirky side of her personality that her family loves.

McGuire shared the photo of her cake on her Facebook page where it quickly went viral, racking up thousands of likes, comments, and shares. She was shocked by the response but thrilled to find the picture had made its way to so many like-minded people, many of whom said they too, nurse a love for Amazon delivery.

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As for the bakers, they’ve been pleasantly surprised by the response as well.

“It definitely has been an exciting few days since this went viral,” said baker Trena Norris. “Thank you to Mac and Emily for allowing us to make her birthday a little ‘sweeter.’ We hope to create more special cakes for them in the future.”

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The cake has reached many other people who can relate, some of them saying that they shop on Amazon even more than McGuire does.

The story was featured on news outlets around the world, even getting translated into other languages. After the story went viral, McGuire finally got the chance to meet Norris, the baker who made her beautiful birthday cake. None of them could have ever known that McGuire’s obsession combined with Norris’ amazing baking talent would result in not only a delicious cake but also a viral story.

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Emily and Mac McGuire have been married for 12 years.

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While Mac McGuire doesn’t always go in for big surprises, he does try to notice the little things about his wife’s interests — like her love of online shopping, for example. She said this surprise would be one she’d remember for a long time.

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