Mom, Can You Make Me a Cake...

Mickey (middle kid): Mom, can you make me a cake to take on the last day of my summer job before I go back to college?
Me: Sure, anything in mind?
Mickey: Yes, it needs to be a llama in a hat.
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Okay then.
It had been a while since I made a cake, and well, the first llama... in a hat. This cake also had to taste fab! She was bringing it to the local country club to celebrate with the staff, 3 of which are chefs, one of which is a pastry chef. Double pressure as far as I am concerned. It has to taste and look fabulous. – I mean, it always should. Now, I am used to creative pressure, it's what I do but this was culinary pressure, a whole different ballgame.

I decided to do a lemon-blueberry cake with lemon buttercream frosting.

I did do am Instagram story as I evolved.
Here is how it went...

Rice Cereal/Marshmallow Sprinkle Hat

It is quite amazing what all you can make with rice cereal and marshmallows

Fondant Ears Attached to Dowel Rods

Freeform... not perfect, but neither are a llama's!

Fondant Ears Centers, Painted Gold :)

Fondant Nose

Fondant Eyes. Painted Gold

He turned out pretty darn cute. And they say, delicious too. WIN!

DAY 20 - Whole30® Bake a Cake? Challenge Accepted.

The 2nd Birthday of Rhett, my sweet little great nephew.
We are not pastry chefs or cake decorating professionals by any means....
we had fun, it was a Saturday night family project.

Sugar and butter and flour and more butter and more sugar and some food coloring and some more sugar. I did not lick, bite nor taste. And I LOVE butter cream icing almost as much as I love cake.
Needless to say that was a bit tricky but not impossible. Yay me.
Oh and Rhett liked his cake, A LOT.

So, I can bake and decorate big crazy sugar mountains and have self control.
That is new for me. I like it.

Happy Birthday Sweet Little Boy!