Monday, June 23, 2008

Our Weekend Achievement: Now with Bigger Pictures!

So, Saturday morning James and I had a blast learning a new cake-decorating skill: working with fondant. James made the cake and the fondant on Friday (the fondant was made out of marshmallows and a ton of powdered sugar and I don't even know what else), and then Saturday morning we set to decorating it. First, James expertly covered the entire cake with a layer of white fondant:
Next, we had to decide what we wanted to decorate it with, so we went to our huge box of 100 cookie cutters to choose a shape or two.

Once our magnificent shapes were selected, we began coloring and cutting the fondant and decorating the cake.
Ok, I have probably not had this much fun in a long time. James is hilarious. I love my husband -he's awesome. (It was, after all, all his idea to make this cake in the first place.)We spent a lot of time congratulating ourselves on our brilliance and laughing at our randomness.

The final product:

Yes, those are stegosauruses. They represent our neighbors, to whom we gave this masterpiece as a magnanimous show of our appreciation and admiration of them. (Applause here would be appropriate.)

5 comments:

Tracie said...

*Applause* Very nice. :)

Allison said...

ON the Food network there is a series called "Ace of Cakes". They work with fondant a lot too.

Christian and Jennifer said...

Wow! I am so impressed! Who is this guy you married? He makes truffles and fondant and all other sorts of bliss-ness! Hooray for beautiful cakes! I am supremely impressed. And I miss you, Char. Seriously, you are just like one of my own sisters and I wish we got to see you more often.

Meglen said...

Oh, heavens, Charity. That is truly brilliance.

Christian and Jennifer said...

Hooray for bigger pictures! Clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap, clap. (Hee, hee! It made me laugh so hard when you posted that on our blog!)