Today is Donald Duck’s 90th birthday! On this date in 1934, he made his debut in The Wise Little Hen. He was only intended to be a minor character…I sure am glad that didn’t last, because he’s one of my favorites!

I tried to come up with a whole themed dinner, but surprisingly, there isn’t a lot out there that screams “Donald Duck” (no, I was not going to make duck on his birthday!). So I settled on making a cake in his honor, inspired by the color palette Disneyland used for their 90th birthday tribute:

I had some fun with the interior of the cake, as well:

I was very happy with how it turned out, even if it didn’t match my original vision for it!

And we also toasted Donald with his favorite drink, strawberry soda:

I’ll leave you with my favorite musing about Donald Duck’s family, which I came up with almost six years ago:

“You know Donald Duck, right?

His mother’s name is Hortense. Maiden name: McDuck.
So…she could have hyphenated her name, and been Hortense McDuck-Duck, and that thought makes me happy.

Also, there is a Goose family in Donald Duck’s universe. Which means there is the possibility of a marriage resulting in an offspring with the last name McDuck-Duck-Goose. And that thought makes me almost delirious.”