It's Just Abbey

My second class about cake decorating with my mom was a success. We basically just sat together giggling like school girls while we made a mess with frosting.

Okay, important side note. We all had to make our own frosting. We couldn’t go out and buy premade frosting, oh no. That would be too easy! So Monday I sat over my stand mixer with a layer of powdered sugar splashed in my face as I poked the gooey blob in my bowl. I’m not exactly clear on the minor plot points but I am pretty sure this was how Flubber was created. I had a knife on standby just in case it grew a brain and developed a sudden urge for world domination. I was just being safe. And to be fair, my frosting did turn out purple with big blue spots. Much like I would assume a Dr Seuss booger would look like. So there’s that.

Fast forward to us at class trying to make roses and doing a star pattern on our cakes. First of all, we both kicked ass at rose making. First you make a big glob, you make petals and then… holy shit! It’s a rose! EVERYONE LOOK WHAT I MADE! SOMEONE GIVE ME A GOD DAMNED GOLD STAR! It was like magic! I don’t know if it years of crocheting and knitting that helped my dexterity (btw, I’m an old lady) but I was on my game. I am sure it was beginners luck and next week I am going to leave crying with icing in my hair and a broken soul.

But lay your eyes on my beautiful rose!

After the rose making fun we started making stars. Now, to explain stars… Um, they are just making little stars all over your cake in lieu of covering it with a layer of frosting. Very time consuming, very hand crampy. I have mixed feelings about stars. One hand, they look cool but on the other they take forever! You just sit there… Star, star, star, star, star, star, ARG! That process goes on for about an hour and a half. It is the less than glamorous side of cake decorating. Like I said, I am a crochet fiend so I get repetition but damn. Someone find me a tv or something. Star, star, star, star, star, staaaar! Crap, I messed up. Better eat that piece. Om nom nom.

That was the best part. I left with stomach aches from all the icing I consumed after I made "mistakes." The recipe for the frosting is mostly just Crisco and sugar so my tummy was starting a mutiny. Star, star, star, HAND CRAMP! Star, star, star, eat, star, star, STOMACH CRAMP! I love cake decorating! CRAMP!

Anywho… It was actually a pretty boring class. What I am really looking forward to is next week. We are learning to make clowns on top of cupcakes. Okay, screw clowns. CUPCAKES! I friggin’ love cuppiecakes and I get teased for how I eat them. Rip off the bottom, eat that and then eat the top. It is a mess, time consuming and delicious. Try it sometime. It will change your life. Fact.

My finished cake:

Next week: BYOCH (Bring your own clown head!) Woot!