This cake just wants to make me sigh. So many factors, it seems, were working against me on this day. Don't get me wrong! I loved my sixteenth birthday. And the cake tasted delicious.
It's just that... I had such high hopes for this cake. Maybe that was my problem: I put the cake up on a pedestal before I even made it. No, no, that wasn't the problem. Poor time management and chronic procrastination is my problem. I didn't bake the cake until 10pm the night before and I decorated it that very morning.
That means, no time for a crumb coat, and what was I even thinking! not even trying to smooth out the icing. The cake was lopsided (I purposely tried to take the picture at an angle to hide that), and I should've known that the August humidity of my Georgia hometown would've killed the fondant tiara. Alas, no luster dust, either.
The cake I had planned was fit for a princess (moi), with absolutely no flaws. Obviously, I didn' quite fulfill that goal. However, it was still a beautiful cake, and it had character. I look forward to actually trying to get my cake close to perfection next year, and I already have some plans brewing...
5 comments:
Beatiful cake!!
It's a great cake...silly wabbit.
that is complete awesomeness in cake-form! Nice one : )
Kelsie, I love your cake. The tiara is beautiful! I can't even begin to imagine how you made it.I know what you mean about 16th birthdays, though. While I've not practiced in cake decorating, yet, I have always loved throwing parties. My mother let me decorate the majority of my 16th birthday. While I loved it and think the decorating was pretty good, I will always think of what I could have done better. My birthday is also in August and I, too, live in the south. I figured my friends and I would spend the majority of the party in our pool, but funnily enough we probably spent a couple of hours at most, leaving a lot of time unplanned.
On the bright side, if we thought everything we did was perfect, we'd never get any better. :)
Just passing through looking for ideas. You've got talent girl! The tiera was beautiful. Keep doing cakes. The more you do the better you will get. Who knows, maybe a few years from now you will have your own bakery!
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