The beautiful reason this birthday cake is going viral

We’ve certainly seen our fair share of viral cakes, but the latest one is pulling on our heartstrings.

When Lisa Sarber Aldrich went to a Michigan Meijer to purchase a cake, she was just hoping to get your typical birthday cake with “Happy Birthday Mandy” written on top. So she approached an employee and asked her to decorate a cake for her. “She said she would, and after a long time, she came and presented me with this cake,” Lisa wrote in a Facebook post. “I looked her In the eye and said thank you before I even looked at the cake.”

Then she looked down. . . and it wasn’t exactly what she was expecting: