Cake

I made a cake today.  Well, really I made two layers yesterday, and two today, and then decorated it today.  It took me all blessed day.  My poor kids have been neglected.  Also, Seth's sick AGAIN.  This time he has some kind of chest congestion, almost croup, nasty just now developing a fever even though the cough has been here 2 days already, thing.  I'm going to post a picture of the cake, and then I'm going to not move my hands anymore.  My hands are tired.  I did the entire cake in buttercream, and all the decorations are buttercream as well.  Most people would do these out of fondant.  I didn't.  Fondant doesn't taste good.  I'm hoping that the cake doesn't sag because I forgot to put in supports.  I remembered it after I had completely smoothed...oh my word, it is taking me so many tries to get the words typed right...and the green squiggly lines piped and smoothed.  I decided, with the consultation of a couple of people, that it would be best left alone.  If I tried to take the top layer off, it could easily result in disaster and a LOT more work.  This way, there's just a hope it doesn't collapse or sink.  If it does, then I'll have a disaster and a lot more work, but it will more than likely not happen.  I'm going for better odds this time.

What do you think about the cupcake?  It was a spur of the moment decision, and I thought it would be cute, and I think it is.  When you layer a cake, you're supposed to have 4 inches between sizes of pans, so this is a 10 inch, 6 inch, and then the cupcake would be 2 inches. :)  I think it's cute.  This cake is for a teenager, and it's custom made for them from a picture they sent me.  They wanted nothing pink, so they asked for green and black.  Oh my word, my anecdotal abilities are GONE!  I started this stuff at 7:15 this morning, and stopped for about 45 minutes when I had someone come by around lunch, and then started back and worked until 5:40 tonight.  I don't think I'm being paid NEARLY enough to cover my time.  Maybe if I did this more often, it would be worth it because I'd get faster.  Knowing me, I wouldn't get much faster because I'm too much of a perfectionist.

And now I'm going to help my husband finish unloading the mulch from the back of his truck because it's going to rain again tomorrow, and we don't want to have his truck hanging halfway out of the garage during this storm like the last one. :)