What a Life!

No, I have not been taking cake decorating classes.

My only expertise is the hours I spent watching my mom practice and decorate cakes when I was a little girl. She’d do all these practice roses on wax paper, and then scrape them into a bowl and use the icing to practice with it some more, which was always disappointing to me because I love the taste of buttercream icing and wanted to eat them.

I can’t do a rose or any of the pretty flowers she made, but I can do simple stuff like stars. And fins on a fish. Steve was pretty impressed with the fins.

I did call my mom more than once about the consistency of the icing. At first I am sure it was too thick. But in the end, I think it was a little too thin. It held its shape, but it was sloppy. Next time.

Yes, next time. Now the precedent has been sent. What will I do for Joey’s birthday?

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