Thursday, May 8, 2008

Goodbye Cupcakes...Hello Fondant

Tomorrow night is the big night: Caity's High School Musical Slumber Karaoke Party. She bought a party planning book (the HSM version, of course), and as been working out the details for a month now. She has plans to make Sharpay Smoothies and Wildcat Punch. There will be High School Musical: Sing It! on the Wii, starting off with a special duet performance by the Glinchy's..lots of games, lots of fun, and I am sure, little sleep for anyone...And then, there's the cake.
Caity has had her "dream cake" every year, for both home and school, since she was five. Hello Kitty, Butterflies, Hannah Montana Guitars, have all emerged beautifully out of John's pull-apart cupcake workshop (he has even been pimped out to do Spiderman Cupcakes and Christmas Trees). However, with the HSM theme, she was set on a megaphone and microphone. OK, easy enough, praise God she did not want Gabriella and Troy's faces, or Sharpay's pink convertible. This is when John has a thought - after watching one too many Ace of Cakes where Geoff and Duff just making baking look so cool - what if we did a cake, carved into shapes, and covered in fondant...(this is where the glycerin incident came in yesterday at Wal-Mart, but I'll have to post that blog later)...yep - fondant. We are talking upgrading big time.
Today the cakes were baked and carved. And tonight - the fondant has gone on. John is amazing, really. He can program code, secure and wire a network, fix a washer, fix a car, play chess (although I always beat him), paint, and bake. The fondant has been rolled on perfectly, then completed with additional fondant accents and the colors and decorations go on later (it has to sit 2-3 hours), but the cake looks sooooooo good. Publix bakery good. I can't wait to see Caity's reaction to it tomorrow afternoon when it is all ready to go!

One amazing husband, goodbye cupcakes (at least for this party), and hello fondant!

Life is good!

PS - Yes, I am aware I am egregiously behind on my blogging, but once I get them backposted, especially days like Cinco de mayo and zookeeping gone awry, not to mention installing plumbing, you will easily see why, and be most entertained by the goings on around here in the last month!

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