2 Tiered Cake with Fondant

Now that I've tackled stacking cakes, I need to practice like crazy with fondant.  Luckily my uncle's 60 birthday was this year!

I originally though I'd just try my hand at making fondant (tried it once before here) because I didn't have much time (ie to order the good stuff online) and I figured why not..

FAIL!!!

I don't know what went wrong this time, but no matter how much I kneaded it it would NOT come together!  I ended up throwing it out and going to Michael's and buying a box of the Wilton stuff.  I've heard a few bad reviews about it, but I was kinda in a pinch.  lol

All in all it didn't turn out too bad!

Luckily the stripes help hide the rips on the top layer...

For the bottom I took some cookie cutters to make shapes and "glued" them on with some icing.  

My family was pretty impressed, and I figured it wasn't too bad.  Need a LOT more practice before the wedding though!

First Stacked Cake

I took the plunge and tried my hand at stacking cakes. 

I did this one to bring into work, just because I needed to practice.  I skipped any type of tutorial/instructions, because there are way more qualified people out there than me! So here's some pictures for you to enjoy!

I just covered this one in buttercream, nothing fancy, and then piped some squiggles to distract from the unevenness.  

All in all I was pretty proud of myself, it didn't fall in on itself and it wasn't too crooked. Mission accomplished! lol

And yes, this is *this* cake...

Brunch! YUM!

Amy loves making brunch.  I love eating brunch. I think you can see where this is going!

Amy had Adam and me over for brunch one Sunday morning, and it was delicious!

She made super tasty whole wheat flour waffles with strawberries and whipped cream, bacon, and adorable mini parfaits.

She was even so generous as to provide me with the waffle recipe (I love her copy written out on this cute card! Maybe that'll have to be a new project for me, putting my recipes on to cute cards!)

AND because this was close to my birthday she had an awesome goodie bag done up for me containing her killer maple nut granola (used in the parfaits) and also delicious nutella banana bread! YUM!

What a great day!

Cake Adventures! Ooops!

For my first try at baking a tiered cake, I thought I could fit a whole cake mix into my 3" tall, 6" diameter cake pan....

NOPE!

This picture was about 10 minutes into baking, I was going to be in trouble!! I ended up having to ladle some from the small one into the big one!  

Scrapbooking!

It has been a LONG time since I scrapbooked! As in I'm trying to do the pictures I printed 2 years ago.  If you're a scrapbooker, you know how sometimes it's hard to do old pictures because you're just not that into them anymore.  Well, in the last couple of months, I've been a bit crazy buying supplies on Peachycheap.com    There's nothing like new supplies to amp up your interest in scrapbooking!

So, without further ado, here are the pages I FINALLY completed!

I used a lot of my brand new paper, plus some old embellishments!  

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