Well. This week i planned to make 2 cakes. One for my best pal's daughter who will be 4 tomorrow (which i can't quite believe as i remember her being born yesterday ) and a boat cake for the consultant i work with who's leaving for a new job this week.
But of course my oven broke, didn't it!?!
Thankfully the cooker i have has a top oven, which I've never baked in before and isn't fan like the normal oven, so i still got cracking. Albeit with a different plan.
Miren had quite specific requests that it had to be pink. That's fine. I had loads of pink- fuscia and rose, and red colouring i could add to white icing. But she also wanted roses. Now. Roses are bloody hard to make from fondant. I didn't know this until recently! However, after a couple of attempts- and lots of pintresting and youtubing- i think i got away with it.
My plan was to make a lovely 3-tiered pink creation with ribbons and hearts and polka dots and pinkness. That went out the window pretty swiftly!
I ended up making a wee heart cake with some questionable roses, then shitloads of pink cupcakes with pink icing and pink piped roses. Game on. I delivered them tonight, so that's at least done.
But then the boat. I planned a tiered sail boat, with royal icing blue sea and loads of movement, and even bought edible rice paper for the sails!!! AND I made a wee consultant sailor out of fondant, who would be sitting proudly hanging onto the rigging.
But no.
What I've ended up with is an effort of a cake that looks like a 4 year old made it!
On the plus side, i still used my edible paper on the sails. You can't tell, of course, because that kind of went tits up too and i ended up having to make blue sails when i ran out of white fondant! So the sails are ricepaper-covered blue things.
Fuck it. It tastes nice!
Isn't it funny how you can start disliking a hobby...
Til next time!!!
