Cake number..... oh, I've lost count!

I like making cakes… I do! I just wish my oven wasn't broken and that there was a store that sold the fondant close by!

This particular cake was a nightmare!!!

Firstly, I went out after work one day, in a snow storm, to buy the fondant! I didn't drive though this time, I took the subway all the way out to Kipling station! Then started walking, forgetting that I was not on Bloor like I was suppose to be, but that the subway turns onto Dundas West at Kipling station!! Ughhhh!!

Twenty mins later, I arrive at the store! Thank God!! And to make things better, the fondant is half the price I usually pay when I trek out to Milton to buy some! Fantatic! So I make my way back home on the subway eager to start the cake!

9pm -

I make fresh cream cheese icing for the cake (it was a carrot cake) and layer on the parts of the two-tiered cake! Soon enough, they start sliding off eachother… I thought "greaaaat!" I probably didn't use enough icing sugar! Baaah!!

So I fix them and roll out the fondant to begin covering it and, well not much to my surprise considering the price difference, this particular brand of fondant sucks!! It's too thin, too soft and hard to roll without breaking!!

Either way, I try…. Once, twice, three times, then I'm cursing out loud!! Godammit it's not working!! The cakes are stiff shifting, the fondant is sliding off with the icing making it all drop over to the sides… it's starting to look like a marshmellow!! The fondant got so thin, you could see every bump of the cake!

The catastrophe……
11:30 pm -

Scrap that idea!! I take all the fondant off and go to Metro to buy more icing sugar, coconut, and cream cheese! I'm gonna make it look like a traditional carrot cake with coconut on the sides!!!

Thank GOD it works!!!

Finished piece……

1:30am!!