Attempt Numbero Dos!

Yesterday was not fun...why? Well, I started to make my list for my second assignment of the summer: a baby shower cake! It is very exciting that I am making my first three tiered cake. In the end it will probably be way too much cake for the shower but who doesn't love extra cake to eat forever. And really, flour and sugar is not that much money. So yesterday was day one of the prep work for the cake. I was to make ALL of the decorations for the cake. It is a three tiered cake that I found online that we are trying to recreate. The decorations I am making are all made out of gum paste. So, the fondant needed to be colored and then mixed with some gum tex to get it to be the right texture.

Well...baby boy did not want to nap in the afternoon until 5:25pm! That's right so not much got done yesterday. Then the hubby wanted me to head to bed with him around 10ish...get your minds out of the gutter we went right to bed after hubby shed some light on me with some useless tips from a book my mother bought him.

So up to today I had only made the 120 buttons I needed. At least I think that is how many I made. We shall see when we start to decorate on Saturday. Today, as the nap is about to finish (the monitor is right next to be and the baby is starting to cry), I was able to make all 100 of the cookie cutter images for the clothes line! WooHoooo!!!

The rest of today needs to be done with making the frosting, roughly 23 cups worth and some pastry cream!

Yumm...