I think Mother Nature is trying to tell me (and the rest of the East Coast) that August 31st is just too soon to go back to school. Maryland had her first ever large scale earthquake that I can now officially say that I have lived through one, and we are expecting Hurricane Irene to hit Maryland tonight. I have been through my share of Hurricanes, but the not state of emergency, power outages, buy all the bread and batteries you can kind. So, I'd like to think that it is some higher being warning us feeble people that school should not start in the month of August or the world will come to an end. Speaking of coming to an end, another year as gone by for my sister and her birthday is today. Normally, her birthday is another sign of school beginning, so that uneasy feeling creeps upon me, but not this year. Even with the hurricane looming I am more excited for her birthday than ever because I got to make my first ever cake with fondant icing.
Talk about pressure.
I was very worried that the icing would not turn out polished or would taste gross, but I am happy to say that neither of these things happened. The cake is a small cutesy little thing, which basically describes my sister perfectly. Besides my first time with the ingredient fondant, the cake also called for milk, butter, eggs, four, baking powder, sugar, vanilla, and some sugar-coated chocolate candies.
Here is the book's picture:
Here is my cake:
Pretty close- though unfortunately pastel colored M&Ms were all the way in White Marsh, and while I love my sister dearly, I wasn't trucking out there in pre-Hurricane weather. Anyway, tomorrow we are supposed to have crabs up her house, if Irene gives us a break, which is my favorite food- so what is there to not be happy about? Pretty cake, pretty sister, yummy food- yeah school is around the corner, but if you know me at all you know that I am prepared.
Until next week!
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