That weekend went by way, way too quickly!
Because I am sure everyone is dying to know whether or not my cake turned out.... it did!
So I used everyone's suggestions (THANK YOU!!), and the cake only sank a little- I think I may have actually left it in the oven too long the last time as well. At any rate, the cake came out more or less perfectly.
My definition of "perfect" is most likely very different from your definition. But it was in one piece and not completely sunk in the middle.
Oh, and since we don't have any metal baking pans I wound up using our skillet that is all metal. Don't laugh, it worked. And it is way easier getting stuff out of an oven when it has a freaking handle!
So then I did the dirty frosting, fondant, and this time I did polka dots (I didn't want another lame-bow fiasco like the last time)
And then, because my friend let me borrow her tool to squeeze frosting, I did some fancy-pants outlining on the cake
Yeah- I am so ready to open my own bakery. Or not. Either way I got polka dots.
Does anyone think the cake looks like a dinosaur egg? If not, look again- it will come to you. And that would be on purpose, because I got a fun idea (from Pinterest, the place where craft addicts get their fix)I convinced the hubs that we needed these for our cake:
Honestly, once I told him he could be the T-Rex he was down with it.
Once we brought those bad boys home, I spray painted them yellow, and then we started painting them with gold glitter paint!
Hubby was actually silly enough to ask me "Do you really want glitter?". I just looked at him until he came to his senses and asked a more resonable question "Do you think one bottle will be enough?"
It's ok, he was just tired.
He even requested to help paint them!
And I think they turned out fabulous!
Oh yeah, prior to the painting I had hubby drill a hole in each one's back so we could stick a candle in there.
The final result looked like this:
For some reason I couldn't get a non-blurry picture of the whole cake, I guess my phone camera couldn't handle the pure awesome that was this birthday cake.
The T-Rex makes me giggle.
So that was the adventure of the birthday cake. It was something new, and I get to say that I had a cake with freaking glittery and gold dinosaurs on top. That is pretty cool.
And everyone loved, loved, loved the cake.
I am pretty sure the mojitos didn't have anything to do with their opinion. Like about 65% sure.
So the cake recipes were amazing and I whole-heartily recommend them.
Here is the
Orange Pound Cake and
Marshmellow Fondant recipe
I also would recommend the
Guacamole recipe. I would also recommend tripling the batch.
I had a cook who said that my guacamole was in the top five/three that he has ever had- which is actually a really impressive feat (he loves his food). So I was thrilled. Of course I was banking on a ton of leftovers and the ability of grown men to knock back what must have been a pound of guacamole was staggering. There was only a little bit left over.
Jerks.
The
Mojito drink was more or less a dud. The limeaid was awful- way too sugary. Luckily the hubs knows more about mixing drinks that I do so he took what we had an made something that was passable as a mojito. And it turns out that after a few pitchers no one cared how much like a mojito it tasted like.
Oh- quick thank you to Lindsay for the suggestion of Bacardi so there would be no hang over the next day. It worked- thank you!!!
The "
Copycat Applebee's Spinach and Artichoke Dip" wasn't what I would call completely successful (it did not taste like Applebee's dip) but it wasn't terrible either. I think with some tweeking it could be a yummy recipe and it works if you have no other recipe so it was still a good dip- but it paled in comparison to the guacamole dip.
Oh, and for decorations- the
pom-poms I was going to do would have taken too much tissue. Instead we bought a cheap $5 pack of scrap booking paper and made
these flowers (the instructions are in Chinese but the images are good enough to follow along)
So that was my Saturday.
Yesterday I worked on stuff for my Etsy store (I swear it will open eventually).
I also ran 3.12 miles, with an average of 8 minutes 16 seconds per mile (I think it was all the sugar in my system).
And I started weight lifting.
That's right- I kept saying I would and I finally grabbed a pair of 5 lb weights and starting doing it. For about thirty minutes. Googling the exercises as I went along because I have zero clue what I am doing.
I was going to follow the entire workout
here but could only get through the first five! I did manage to do two sets of each, and even though I was using really light weights I could barely do the last rep each time. Hubby said that is how it is suppose to be and I think I got a good work out but it is so sad that I couldn't even do a full routine.
Oh well, I wasn't running a mile straight either when I first started. The whole building up your tolerance is annoying.
How was everyone else's weekend?!
Things I am happy about today:
- Finally starting weight training
- donating to charity
- all the suggestions I got from everyone on here to make my party rock!
- Glittery Gold Dinosaurs
- Having everyone tell me I don't look 27 at my party when they asked how old I was (liars! But whatever, I'll take it)
- skirts
- sunny weather
- good hair days
