Cassandra's Baby Shower

Sorry for the delay in uploading the pictures we promised of OUR BEST CAKE EVER!! I was running around like a crazy person on Sunday, so we didn't take the time to take adequate pictures of the cake. This is a picture that Cassandra's Nana took at the party... and as it turns out, this is the only one!

I've actually been eating part of the leftovers of this cake today at work (6 days after its "birth"... haha) and it's still so super yummy! So not only was this cake a huge success because of the way it looks, it tastes perfect, too! I've even been told by multiple fondant haters that this is the best fondant they've ever eaten... Cassandra won't stop eating it and she hated the stuff before she tasted ours! Her teeth have been blue off and on all day!

I must say that the shower was a huge success overall, and we are thrilled that the cake was only one little part of the wonderful day! Congrats Cassandra and Jeremy! We can't wait to meet Baby Judson!

-Laura

11/11/08: We found another picture!! Yay!! This one is a better view of the cars! Thanks, Mrs. Ivey for sharing it with us!!!

Out of the depths of despair...

Even though we ended October on a really bad note...

Happy NOVEMBER! That means it's the beginning of FUN WEEK, and we're off to a GREAT start!

Last week was horrible, as everyone knows... but Cassandra...and everyone... must have been praying really hard... because this week's first cake was FANTASTIC!!! Our best yet!!!

We'd been so nervous about beginning it, but wound up having such a great, easy, wonderful experience. We finished in record time... even cleaned up before it was time for lunch!

Maybe we're finally starting to get the hang of this cake decorating thing...

CHECK BACK TOMORROW FOR SOME IMPRESSIVE PICTURES!!!

Let's just say we put the areas best bakeries to SHAME!

-Mallory

Birthday Cake Catastrophe

Now that Camron's SURPRISE birthday party has come and gone, we can post pictures of the disaster that was intended to be his birthday cake! We know now what went wrong (so we can avoid this in the future), but we were so discouraged when we discovered what had happened! The cake split in two!!

Of course, the party was still a huge success! We had a last minute substitution cake from one of the more professional bakeries in town and the "30" cookies that Mallory and I made last night... And, Davenport's Pizza is always wonderful! It was a great time!!

-Laura

Baby Girl Cake

Tonight we attempted what was supposed to be our easiest, simplest, most straightforward cake yet... Unfortunately, it was anything but a success, I'd say... More of a huge disappointment that left us both feeling like failures!! More on that later... probably in another post...

On a more positive note, here is a picture of our most recent success - completed on Saturday. It's our first baby girl shower cake, and we had a lot of fun with it. Thanks to all of our preparations for "Fun Week", we had all of the fondant in the fridge and ready to go... We only had to do the baking (a yummy new recipe) and decorating - cutting the time down to only all day Saturday instead of Thursday and Friday evenings, too!

Unfortunately, we only have the one picture because my camera batteries were dead. We were lucky to get this one!

-Laura

FUN Week!

The first week of November will be called "FUN WEEK."

Why you ask? Well, we have 5 or 6 cakes planned for that week!

Laura and I just started calling that first week in November FUN WEEK today...we were previously referring to it as "Week of DREAD" and "Our Last Week of Friendship" and "Week of No Sleep." We considered quitting, but at our last staff meeting we decided to try to be a little more positive. So now, through clenched teeth, it will now be referred to as FUN WEEK! WOOHOO!!!

If you're one of the few people who were lucky enough to get a spot during this week, feel proud. You will go down in SWEET LIFE history.


Congratulations recipients of FUN WEEK cakes! We will now refer to you as The "Many." The Proud. The Recipients of Fun Week Cakes!

-Mallory

October 11th- The Day of Nine Colors

Nine colors. Unbelievable. Laura and I made NINE batches of fondant. Seriously? Wow...this realization makes me quite proud...

I knew there were several colors...but this explains why she didn't leave my house until EIGHT at night!

There is an abundance of light blue and pink, tomato red, white, black, navy, burgundy, dark brown, and reddish brown.

Making fondant is probably the best part of the whole process. It causes little to no yelling, only a moderate mess, and COOL colored hands for a day or so. Cool colored hands get you attention everywhere you go. People ask "WHAT have you been doing???" Also, the prep (buying the TOP SECRET ingredients) leads people to ask "WHAT in the WORLD are you MAKING?!?!" Laura and I had SO much fun talking to complete strangers that day about our cakes.

October 11- the "Day of Nine Colors"- will forever live in my memory as a day of happiness and success. Long live fondant, long live CAKE!

-Mallory

Auburn Cake -- WAR EAGLE!!!

As I mentioned in our last post, we had a second project this weekend... An Auburn cake!! We started it last night while we were working on the doxie cake. (Come to think of it, this might have been a big part of why we were overwhelmed by the doxie cake. We are definitely going back to one cake at a time after our experience this weekend.)

Being two fairly recent Auburn graduates, we've had an Auburn cake high on our list of "want-to's" for awhile, but the past couple of weekends have just been way too busy... In honor of Auburn's first SEC game, we decided that we couldn't put it off any longer!

We had decided that it probably had no chance of looking decent, but we thought it would be fun to try it anyway. In my opinion, this one wound up being our most enjoyable project yet! Maybe because we had set our expectations pretty low, and maybe because we knew it didn't really matter if this one didn't turn out to be our best we were really relaxed about the whole thing!! Not having that stress hanging over us let us really enjoy each part of the process.

Cutting the AU shape out of the cakes went SO SO SO much better than we had even dared to hope! Covering it with the buttercream and fondant was a learning experience, but still went pretty well... Let's just say that next time it's going to go even better!! We were thrilled with the colors of the fondant (it changes a little after it goes into the fridge so there's no way to totally control it) and the texture wound up being perfect for the sharp little corners of the "A"!!

You can probably tell from the smiles on our faces and the lack of powdered sugar and cake crumbs in our hair and all over our clothes how excited we were to have finished this one!

-Laura