So, I got home from work at the bar last night around 1:30. I knew I had to bake my cakes last night because I wouldn't have time to bake and cool and crumb frost and decorate today before the birthday party at 2:00.
Well, I had to make two layers for the sheet cake and two layers for the square cake... I only have one sheet cake pan though. Baking took a little over an hour. Cooling, assembling and crumb frosting took another hour. By the time I was in bed, it was about 3:30. For some reason, I couldn't sleep at all! Ugh. By the time I fell asleep it was probably about 4:30am. At 8am, I woke up in a panic... all I could think of, laying there was that I had turned on the dishwasher before going to bed. And I had left the cake, crumb frosted and assembled... on the kitchen counter, right about the dishwasher. That part of the counter gets really hot when the dishwasher is run.
I was laying there in bed, about 3 1/2 hours of sleep, picturing my cake, melted, fallen apart and ruined. I knew it was completely irrational... but I couldn't help myself... I got up and checked on it. Of course, it was fine.
I went back to bed and tried to sleep for another hour. I got a bit here on and off and then got up at 9:30 and started to decorate. I had to make frosting, roll gum paste, roll fondant, color frosting and gum paste etc.
It was a lot of work to try to get done right before the party haha, but at least it was fresh!!!
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I was pretty happy with how it turned out over all!
From my sketch
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to the trial run little size cake
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Good stuff!
Ender was adorable. He bit EVA in half. haha.
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