Funfetti Cake

Let me preface this post...I am kind of disappointed with the end result, but I just keep reminding myself it was my first time trying this and I didn't really know what I was doing.

Brett's best friend Jordan turned 23 yesterday and last night his parents treated us all to Tucano's (yummy!) so I thought I would make him a birthday cake for our little gathering of games that we will be having tonight...

I have wanted to try using fondant for a while so thought this would be a good time to try it. Jordan loves funfetti cake so I thought I would decorate the outside to kind of resemble the actual cake. I made the fondant myself, even coloring it, I made A LOT of mistakes along the way.

This is the cake before the candles...


With the candles...


Things I learned along the way:

• Getting the fondant that covers the entire cake to look nice is HARD, even the tools I purchased didn't really help there, I had a couple of cracks and the finished bottom was less than desirable.
• Never start the process at 9:30pm like it did...I wasn't done till midnight and I was exhausted!
• Buy ready made fondant, it's gotta be worth the extra couple of bucks, saves a lot of time, a lot of effort and will probably be better anyway! Just find a coupon for Hobby Lobby or Michael's!
• Don't try and learn this skill at 8 months pregnant like I did...my body was dying afterward! How our sister-in-law made our 3 tiered wedding cake at 8 months pregnant is beyond me! Yes, she has a lot more experience, but still!!
  
• Go into your project with a design planned out...mine turned out to be very random as I was ready to go to bed by the time I actually got to the fun part!!
  

I've Got High Apple Pie In The Sky Hopes

For a while now I have had the domestic urge to learn how to make an apple pie so in preparation for Thanksgiving I did a trial run.

I found a recipe, gathered some Granny Smith apples and my matching bowl and set to work. It was a fairly simple recipe and I even made the pastry from scratch!

I was worried first of all that it would look awful, but secondly and even more so that it would taste awful, but neither were the case!

Brett, Heather, Gavin, Ashley and Cameron were my guinea pigs and I got thumbs up all around! Even I was impressed and I never congratulate myself on my cooking!! So now I am onto more pies, Chicken Pot Pie, Berry Pie, and maybe I'll try some Peach Pie who knows, but my new love is making pies!!

Please don't judge my ever growing chubbier face! Pregnancy is not being kind to me!!