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Hi! Liz here. Chris is out at steak night with the boys, so I thought I would post about how I kept myself busy tonight. I have picked up a new, time consuming, and delicious hobby - baking cool looking cakes.
This new activity came about when Chris' Mom turned 50 in July. We had an Orioles-themed surprise party for her and I thought to myself, "This party deserves an awesome Orioles-themed surprise birthday cake." Then, after an entire week of working on it, I thought to myself, "I deserve an awesome surprise kick in the butt for ever attempting this on my own."
To prepare, I read everything I could find on the internet about making fondant, stacking cakes, and the best tools to buy. I spent about four days in A.C. Moore, forty-five minutes crying when the fondant stuck to the buttercream, 13 bags of powdered sugar, six days scrubbing the food dye off of my hands, three hours washing the icing out of my hair, two hours to drive two miles up the road holding the darned thing in my lap, and a week working off all of the calories I inadvertently consumed throughout the process. Well, it paid off! Chris helped me a LOT and together we created and transported the best 50th birthday cake we've ever made in our lives.
Tonight, it's time for MY Mom's birthday! After a surprisingly successful try the first time with Ms. Lori's cake, I got to planning Mom's cake. It's much smaller because it only needs to serve four people, but I learned some new tricks with it. I baked this cake and the almond icing from scratch. I also made the pink royal icing. I learned how to make those daisies with the fondant cutters and the pearl dust, which was really fun. Check out the pics and stop having birthdays or I'll need a bigger kitchen!!!
