What's a birthday without a cake, right? That's what Grace Pak, the cake artist behind "Duchess of Cameron" and a star of Netflix's Is it Cake? thought about America's 250th birthday celebration.

For three weeks now, I've been volunteering as the photographer for America's 250th Birthday Cake.". Celebrity cake artist Grace Pak (aka the Duchess of Cameron, as seen on “Is It Cake?” on Netflix) is creating a car-sized sculptural cake in partnership with America250. As a proud DC native, July 4th has always been a day I felt especially lucky to live here. I've been looking forward to our 250th birthday for a long time. Amid all the other disasters facing our country, I

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We had the beach to ourselves.