First of all, this picture is what my cake was supposed to look like.
Okay, I spent my entire Friday baking. I was hoping I could get in a few sessions on Halo or maybe Morrowind, but I never got the chance. I baked all night long. Everything came out really well and the doll cake pan didn't give me any trouble. Nothing stuck so I was really
happy. Rigid came home around 6 pm and I continued to bake until it was time for bed. He actually got ready for bed before I did. I wasn’t happy at the thought that I’d be left with my family alone all day long either, but such is life.
Saturday morning Rigid left me to go to work at 5:30 am. I was so nervous that I couldn’t sleep anymore so I just got up and started my decorating. Everything was going really well, even the fondant was looking great on the cake, but when I started to put the plastic bits on it they didn’t level out on the cake. Fondant will make the sides of the cake more smooth and rounded. The castle top thingy is nice and level… No matter how much I pushed down on it I couldn’t get it to sit quite right and I stupidly had already stacked my cake so I was pretty much screwed. There would be a very visible gap between the cake and the plastic plate that makes up part of the castle top. Still I was quite proud of my work with the fondant and laying it on the cake… Granted the stupid bananas my sister gave me were weeping in the center, but the fondant covered it up nicely and sealed it up.
I moved on to the decorations. I realized early on that if I was not careful I wouldn’t have enough frosting to finish decorating the mini dolls. Well I did the best I could and I FUCKED the whole thing up. For some reason I started out doing the door in fondant. Why? I’ve never worked with fondant like that. But I was afraid to detail the cake with butter cream too. I just kept going… For some reason the princess from Mario Bro’s kept popping into my head too. Don’t know why either. So the door didn’t come out so bad, but when it came time to do the draped window on the next tier I wasn’t able to duplicate it with fondant. I don’t know why, I just couldn’t. The stuff kept breaking off or not coming out straight and for some stupid reason I thought I could correct it with the frosting. OMFG. So there’s a blue fondant door on the bottom tier and a purple butter cream window, because I was running out of frosting, on the top tier. I should have taken a picture. I was horrified. It looked ridiculous and I didn’t want to finish the cake.
I don’t care if my sister thinks I’m fucking melodramatic. How could I ever allow anyone to eat this confection if I can’t even stand to look at it??? I took a deep breath and refused to look at the window. The night before my sister had taken a cake with the princess windows that I was supposed to use on the princes cake to her daughters class. She forgot to bring them back. Let me tell you this screwed with me even more. I was so upset that I couldn’t decorate the rest of the cake that I couldt think anymore. Especially because there was no way I could get away from that eyesore of a window. I tried to finish the front of the cake, but my wrist was aching and shaking so when I went to do a scroll over the door it came out all lopsided. In fact the whole thing was uneven and lopsided. The scrolls the leaves…. The stupid filling was bulging. I was not a happy girl. So I left it. Nothing I could do until I get those window anyway.
I worked on the dolls next. I only had enough frosting for 4 dolls. I had 6 to make. Good god that was awful. I had to try to make the frosting last me enough for one whole dress and the dolls upper half. I did it, but just barely and I hated those too. This isn’t like an artist who’s never satisfied with their work here people. This is just blatant honesty. I should never do these things because I’m just not that good. And when things start to go wrong they go way wrong. I recommend you always go with a good baker unless you’re perfectly happy with mediocre cake decorating. Anyhow, I tried to fix the window after that. Let’s just say there was lots of green involved.
Of course when my sister came she called me crazy. I love my sister. She’s nice to me. But I hate liars. And she lies! She lies like a fly! Why was that ever a catchy thing to say? So we whisked everything away… WAIT! When she got there she did have one fantastic idea. She thought we could use the left over fondant (link not to doll by the way) to decorate the last two dolls and she was right! I died the fondant and made a pretty pink and blue dress for the dolls. It actually turned out really nicely and was SO FUCKING easy to decorate I wanted to DIE!!! I should have done all the dolls in fondant! ALL OF THEM. Ah well, live and learn.
We rushed everything over to the party in time. ‘Course no one was there and they weren’t finished cleaning yet AND my sister still had to go get the balloons so I stayed and helped my mom clean up and get the house ready. Before you knew it 2 hours had gone by and no one was there yet. Not a soul. We started to have flashbacks of Aric’s B-day party. It rained the whole day. So sad, but we still had high hopes and at least the kids were enjoying themselves in the jumper. Once we had the whole house clean we set up the cakes. It didn’t actually look as horrible as I thought it did. The dolls actually did look kind of nice next to the cake and gave it a more put together sort of look. I definitely need more practice to undertake a job like that more seamlessly, but it was okay for an amateur I think. Besides, by the time more and more people rolled around and I got more and more praise for the job I started to realize people weren’t just telling me I did a good job to be nice. They really thought I did a good job and despite my many attempts to thwart their compliments I couldn’t help but feel good about what I had accomplished that day. I only wish I was able to buy my niece a b-day present. Ah well, I’ll pick one up this weekend.
Note: none of the pics on this post are of the cakes I made. I'll repost when I'm able to load them. :) Thanks!
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