Phew! I’m glad I got through today alive :P Spent a long long time in the kitchen… can’t move now. Attending M’s baby shower tomorrow [shall upload blog tomorrow so that it remains a surprise although I don't think she reads my blog but just in case!] and decided that my ‘bring a plate’ would be a cake.
I saw a picture of a girly elephant fondant cake topper on internet about three weeks ago and dreamt up a little project. Okay, ‘little’ turned out quite challenging as I still need lots and lots of practice with even the basic cake covering. On a side note, I struggled with Satinice and ended up having to purchase a packet of Bakel’s pettinice which we use in Magical Cake’s classes. Although I’ve read tons of rave reviews of Satinice and I’ve got no fewer than 6 different colored buckets in my pantry…I find Bakel’s heaps easier to use! Satinice is more economical though as you can stretch it thinner, however being a newbie I find it a struggle to work with a thin layer. Let’s just say there were some tears in the kitchen today -_-”
Anyway, finally got it done! Not the finish I would have liked but really I’ve done all humanly possible with my basic skills and my body has given up! I hope nothing deteriorates overnight!
Lemon madeira inside the 7″ and chocolate with chocolate frosting inside the cake pops. Thankfully cake pops went without a hitch today despite disastrous results in my one previous attempt :)
Finally finished at 10pm
Poppa & Momma , "It's a boy!"
This was J's idea to have baby hanging on to Momma! :)
At 11pm... a lightbulb went off in my head... TUSKS! Ran downstairs to add them to the boys!
And lights out! x
