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Trial Run

Labels: , , , , | at 11:10 PM



Ok, I'm gunna make this post short and sweet (ha!).

This fondant cake....it was nearly the death of me, not because it was super hard to make the fondant part....just many other factors that came into play.

1. I didn't count for the humidity that we have here...which is a LOT. It made the drying process pretty difficult, but leaving it sit throughout the day helped.

2. NEVER ever ever ever EVER ... leave cake in a toddlers reach, unless you actually want them to have it. Logan took a nice chunk of my bottom layer.

3. Never simultaneously cook pizza and cake, especially when the cake is underneath. I had to pick out 4 olives and a sausage out of the top layer, poor cake.

All in all, since this was my practice cake, I'd have to say that it was a success, it looks decent. The taste testing will be on Friday, unless the cake doesn't make it till then. We'll see!

It was definitely a fun experience, I can't wait to get started on Lucas' cake ;)

Orange colored Strawberry cake :)


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Let them have CAKE!

Labels: , , , , , | at 9:38 PM




Starting my first fondant cake today has been pretty interesting. I always assumed that these beautiful cakes were beyond my cake making abilities...I'm determined to prove that my assumption was way off. This week is my baby brother's birthday, I've no idea what to get him, so instead I'm going to give him the gift of my first cake making experiment. I'm still not sure if that's a nice gift, or an evil one, BUT he's my brother so either way it fits.

I started out making the fondant today, I'm leaving it out to set for 24 hours, then I'll be getting ready to decorate. I'm slightly nervous, but WAY more excited. Here's my setting fondant... starting it made me want to give up automatically, it was an awful and sticky mess...but with more and more powdered sugar (2lbs) I ended up being able to handle it a
bit better and got it to a more workable condition...


Also, on another note, I am posting my raw unedited pictures from my Oldschool Challenge. These were taken yesterday (Mother's Day). I love my beebees!


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Run, Baby, Run!

Labels: , , , | at 12:23 AM




Saturday was Logan's baby marathon, I have had him pre-registered since early June, and have been so excited for it!

A few days before, I went out and got him some new running shoes since his converse are just a tad too big and I knew he'd trip with them. So come race day we figured we'd leave early and give us plenty of time to get his race number and let him practice a bit. It was only a 100 yard dash so I figured it would keep his attention enough to cross the finish. Well... we got there 10 minutes late thanks to many ridiculous circumstances. He didn't even get to run the thing! We were both pretty upset about it, he got to watch the other kids run the 200 but couldn't join in. So teary eyed mommy and son walked up to the booth and asked if he could at least have his number. Not only did they give it to him, along with a bag of goodies, they let him run! He had the attention of everyone there so he was super stoked about that. He crossed the finish line, goodies and all, then proceeded to get his participant ribbon.



All and all it turned out to be great, I can't wait to get him into his next marathon...maybe even 10 minutes early this time.


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