I'm still here.

So, It's hard for me to believe it's only been a month since I have posted on here. It feels like forever ago. It probably feels this way because my last post was a Christmas one, which is months past. I know I don't really need to tell you how long ago Christmas was, but I did anyway.

In any case, I only have a couple cakes left till I'm all caught up and have nothing left to share. I have my aunt and uncles wedding cake to show you, my pirate themed cupcake creation (if I can ever get pictures for it... I asked, but none were sent.)  and my latest cake, which I made wednesday, which is music themed.

So I actually have nothing to show you today, just updating you, letting you know I am still around. (although it seems some drivers have it out for me. My car has been rear ended three times now) And also, there's the fact I'm pretty sure I have no regular readers. If you are out there and you are reading my thoughts, please let me know. I mean I'm normally quite content talking to myself seeing as I do it all the time, but these thoughts were meant to be shared.

So, what's new with me? A whole lot! I've been working a lot on individual desserts and stuff. Muffin cup sized treats. You know, to attempt to control sweet intake. However, that doesn't work when husband eats more than one portion at a time, so I'll just have to try to make them as healthy as possible. The last thing I made was nutella no bake cheesecake. It was actually pretty good. Today I'm just trying to clean up the chaos that was left over from my cake fiasco on Wednesday. Thursdays I work all day, so I didn't get to do it then, so my apartment is horrid right now.

So I should probably wrap this up soon.

On another note, I have decided to go back into fashion design. So I have been working on a lot of things on that front. So If you are interested in what I have been doing on that front you can check out my deviant art here: Here. <3 I think I even update my journal a little more often than my blog.

I'll post again real soon, okay? Okay!

Christmas Time is here!

Vroooom vroooooom vrooooooom.

Yeah, my husband is playing video games and I make car noises as he races. Whats it to ya?

However, this cake has nothing to do with cars, so Onward my fellow readers! -warp-

I apologize for the weirdness tonight, I don't really know what's wrong with me. So, as you know, a couple months ago it was Christmas! Fantastic right? I hope yours was good. Mine was excellent. Busy, but good. In my family it has become tradition (tradition) to make a birthday cake for Jesus. Since I have become the family cake artist, it was my turn to make it. Now more simple pan cakes with "Happy Birthday Jesus" piped on. Oh no. 

Once again I made a chocolate cake. But for some reason this time i didn't feel my normal cake would cut it. So I made the cake and instead of using icing to hold the layers together I decided I would use fudge. Thick gooey, great-grandma's recipe fudge. this stuff is superb. So I had the cake in a springform pan, then I poured the fudge in and added the top layer of cake. Then it needed time to cool.

Mmmmmm Fudge. Seriously, fudge instead of icing just makes the cake so decadent. And then to make matters worse I iced it so that the fondant would stick. This cake would send anyone into a sugar coma.

As for the decorating, It was a little un-cohesive. (what is the opposite of cohesive? Hmmm.) I wanted to do a regular christmasy theme around the side of the cake. So I cut out Christmas trees and presents. then I painted them all with food colouring. This didn't turn out as nice as I would have liked. 

The figurines on top are an old nativity set that I used to play with as a child. Considering I was making the cake on christmas eve, before two family get togethers and an evening church service, I didn't have time for a complex cake. So I set up the nativity and then used a garlic press to make hay. I added a little banners to serve as a stable of sorts and had it saying Happy Birthday Jesus! I thought it was brilliantly thought out. 

Look at the cute little holy family. 

Enjoy!