Father's Day

I haven’t had much time to blog here, although I have lots to blog about. I have some pretty things I want to show you, but every time I want to take a picture of them, my camera battery is dead or I’m busy doing something else.

I’m in love with cake plates. I have discovered that I love to make my own. Unfortunately, while I can tell you about them here, I still don’t have any pictures to show you.

I did find some lovely plates at a couple of yard sales this past weekend that will make beautiful foundations for my cakes. I will, I will take pictures of them this week!

I do have some other pictures for you though. DD #2 (dear daughter) wanted to make a cake for her #1 Dad this weekend, in celebration of Father’s Day. She designed it, I made it. However, we have discovered that you should never, ever attempt to frost a cake when it’s 90 degrees out and extremely humid. Unless you have an air-conditioned kitchen! We don’t have an air-conditioned kitchen; we have no need to here in the Northeast.

So the frosting drooped just a little and the shell piping and stars wouldn't form. I can just hear the wicked witch of the west screaming “I’m melting, melting, melting…..” 

#1 Dad loved it though and DD #2 was very excited and proud to present it to him.  It was the start of a very nice Father's Day.  You can read about the rest of the day here.

My latest creation (and a bit of a disaster)

I think it only right to show my disasters, along with my other (better) creations.  I made this cake for a friend's shower.  Unfortunately, I had my granddaughter with me and she is a bit of a distraction.  The first thing you'll notice is that I didn't level out the top layer of the cake before frosting.  What can I say?  My sweet GD wanted my attention.

I also messed up the lettering.  It's not straight and the effect didn't come out the way I planned.  I started with white lettering and then planned to use a gel over the top of it to give it a popping out effect.  The black gel was too black and it just didn't work.

On a positive note, my roses are getting better!

Now I need to work on a backdrop for my photos.  Notice the lovely, OLD, tv trays in the background.  hahaha.