Blob cake!

I'm soo excited about the Bob the Blob cake I have to do for Saturday!! It's for Princess's niece and I just can't wait!

When building my whale cake yesterday (half soccer ball pan toping a 9" round) I discovered that it will be the perfect formula for Bob - cept I'll need to make him taller...but...I can't make him so tall that he'll collapse - which means I'll need to do 2 things...1 - build him in tiers and 2 - use a heavier battered cake for stability - so (big shock) 7up pound cake it will be!! :)

So - my plan is to use the soccer pan for the top of his head...and put it on top of 2- 9" rounds. That will give me my 1st tier. My genius plan is to wrap that in fondant and leave the blobby bottom on it by tucking the fondant under it (please say a prayer to the cake masters for me that this works!) For the next 2 tiers, I'll use a single 10" round - again, wrapped in blue fondant with it carved and tucked under. I'll likely change this plan as I go a little...but in cake-theory...it should work :) My main concern is having a cake that is too top heavy - which is why I'll likely use bigger rounds at the bottom...I'll just have to wait and see how it all works out. One thing I do know is that I'll have to start baking tonight! :)

Oh - and the cake itself needs to be blue too - but it may turn out green due to the yellow-ness of the batter?? If so - sorry in advance birthday girl! :S

A Whale of a cake!!

Thing 2's sitter had her kiddo's birthday party yesterday - it was great time!!! We went to the bucket club, and if you haven't checked out their new "lagoon" - what's taking you so long??! It's freakin awesome!!!

Ok - back to cake. I told Sitter lady that I'd make her kiddo's cake ages ago...she left a voice mail which DH got confirming that she needed one. I had no idea it was on a Wednesday and was thinking Saturday - oh no! DH finally called her for me and I had 1 day to pull it off! ugh! I totally chated (soo sorry cake gods) and used a mix cuz I was short on time and supplies. I baked it on Tuesday, then took Wednesday afternoon off to decorate. I started at about 1:30 and by 4:22 she was done! (the party started at 4:30! *gasp!*) Anyhow - she was a huge hit!! I had to improvise a couple of times, but overall - she turned out really well - I especially loved her little whale teeth! :)

Mr. Camera is charging right now, so when she's all juiced back up - I'll post a pic :)

Chapter 3 - Coles notes version...

So - to wrap up, the story goes like this...

• We got the last serviced camp site at 7am eastern time
• We could not, however, check in until 3pm - groan!
• That left us with 3 hours to kill before the aquarium opened...on the hottest day of ever!!!
• I was tire, cranky, sticky and in desperate need of sleep.
• It was so hot inside and hout, that we only spent 1 hour at the aquarium (but should have spent at least 4)
• We tried to check in at 2:00 - they said no!! AND - we coudln't be back any later then 4:00 or they'd give up the site THAT WE ALREADY FREAKIN PAID FOR!!!!!
• Finally got checked in - set up the tent and were over run by a plague of house flies of biblical proportion!!! They were soooo gross!!
• It poured that night!
• Day 2 at the water park - supposed to be nice...it was freezing cold and rained all day
• I puffed up like a Christmas Ham!
• It poured all night...again! (we stayed dry, though)

The last day of the vacay was pretty good...we got to ride a cable car, took a walk around old quebec - paid $20. for 4 cones of ice cream and left...then took a tour of the citadel which was super interresting...then we drove home, arriving at 2am. And that's when we found the head lice!!

And so...I went back to work to get a break from my vacation!