Success! Sort of ...

So if you talked to me much at all last week, you would have known how utterly excited I was to begin construction on a Barbie cake for my wonderful daycare lady's little girl's birthday. I was so excited that I dreamt about it for at least two days before and the night before, I had to will myself to go to sleep! Well, the construction was a success! We made it on Friday night and cut it at the party on Saturday afternoon. It looked great and tasted great, stayed standing overnight, and the birthday girl thought it was pretty neat too!

It's triple later, with the top later being a trimmed-up bundt cake. The layers had home-made chocolate frosting, and the outside was vanilla frosting.

After having such a success with this, I thought I'd try making a double layer cake with easy-pour fondant on Sunday. Well, that didn't work out so well.... In fact, I didn't even get to the fondant because I had made such a mess of the cake. But Bill and I cut ourselves a piece and happily ate it anyways. It wasn't pretty, but it was still good.

Next on my list... Red Velvet Cake Balls.

And next on YOUR list if your a baker at all, wander around Bakerella's blog. She's got so many fun ideas! I love it!

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My next big project!

So I'm going to attempt to make a Barbie cake with my wonderful daycare lady for her little girl's 4th birthday this weekend.
Here's the detailed plan:

We're going to use cake mix and 1 or 2 round cake tins and a rounded bundt pan, all layered to make Barbie's skirt. We're then going to use home-made buttercream frosting (powdered sugar, butter, vanilla, milk) for the outside of the cake and then maybe some chocolate buttercream for the layers (by adding cocoa powder).

Here's what the cake will HOPEFULLY turn out like. I'll be sure to post a picture of the actual cake when it's done!

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Open Skies

I don't blog much (obviously), but this seemed blog-worthy to me this morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwM8vgulzdI

This song feels like a breath of fresh air! It's got momentum that could just carry me right through the day. And it got me thinking too about how God is like an open sky. Big, wide and emcompassing, and always present - no matter where you are geographically (or emotionally, spiritually, wherever you are in your life journey). You have to only be able to open your eyes to see it right there with you, always. Although, even if you keep your eyes closed or if it's dark, the sky is still there, whether you acknowledge it or not.