I had an order for a 3 tiered fondant covered red velvet cake that feeds 60 this weekend... decorated in the theme of Dr. Seuss. There were a lot of firsts for me:
-First time a friend of a sister's friend reached out to me for a cake (this was basically a stranger)
-First time I made a cake this big and covered it entirely in fondant
-First time I almost had a full blown panic attach in the middle of a cakespedition
-First time I forgot to eat dinner during a cakespedition
This could potentially be the longest blog ever, so I am just doing another list to explain how it all went down:
-12" square cakes came out BROWN. Not red. Curse you wilton no taste red food color
-Second batch of buttercream came out salty. Curse you trader joe's for having oddly colored butter packaging, I wanted unsalted, not salted butter!
-Started in on the round cakes at 5pm, wondered why I suddenly felt faint and starved, and it happened to be 9:30pm... ALREADY
-Brad came home while I was up to my ears in fondant.. which was stretching, cracking.. basically doing all the things nobody wants it to do (rebel) and I felt the beginnings of a panic attack but I stuffed them down (conveniently as Brad brought out the video camera)
-Design was ill fated, switched things up at the last minute and ended up with two cakes instead of one
-This was to everybody's benefit, as Green Eggs and Ham made an appearance, and it was amazing!
-Got lost looking for San Bruno park, despite it being two blocks from where my Grandma used to live
-Forgot my camera at home, so Molly kindly came with hers to take pictures of the assembled cake
-Everybody loved it!
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Cat in that hat cake is amazing!!!!!! Love the green eggs and ham! You even had Dr. Seuss style writing! So impressive!!!!!
ReplyDeletethanks, la! edith i think your comment disappeared?! i will make the boys whatever they want!
ReplyDeleteThe Salvateenies will have to start thinking up their birthday themes so you have plenty of time to prep!!!
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