I've been inspired by the various blogs I've been checking out to get back to that which makes me happy on the inside - creating. The trick is to feed that part of me while using the tools I've learned in this half a life to keep up with the rest. Goal-oriented people aren't the best at moderation - tending to want the entire thing done to perfection RIGHT THEN. 2011 will be the year I wage the war to achieve victory - the ability to do things IN MODERATION. :-)
The past few weeks the creating has been with food, who knows what it will be next. The Bear turned 10 this year but chose to receive a kayak in the spring for her gift instead of a party with her friends. To me, that didn't mean she should not have a great cake...so I hunted around and decided that I could make a Topsy Turvy Cake for her. Nothing like jumping back in on a technically and artistically difficult project. I used Google Images for my inspiration and made her cake (out of 3 boxed cake mixes - this thing was HEAVY). Purple and orange because they are her favorite colors, lime green because she wants a lime green kayak. It came out pretty well and she was THRILLED. We had a snow day....25 inches of snow will do that...so she was shooed from the kitchen most of the day, but she had a good time watching her new Nancy Drew movie, playing outside in the snow with the neighbors, and reading Chasing Vermeer (Dan Brown for kids). Someday I'm going to learn how to take a good indoor photo!
I didn't have time to make homemade fondant, so I used the big wedding cake box of premade stuff that you buy at the craft store. I kneaded in a few drops of clear vanilla extract, and then divided it into 60% purple, 20% orange and 20% green, using Americolor gel colors. Tutorials for the engineering of the cake (and it is, indeed, engineering) from Janellscakes and Cakecentral.com.
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