My self esteem and confidence prove stronger than flour and sugar.

I'm still here, just a little late. But with ANOTHER great reason, that you'll need to check out--I have done my first guest blog post (EVER), on the Fresh Art blog-site! Those awesome gals agreed to let me and my crappy pictures invade their beautiful space--check it out here and leave some comment love!

Continuing with my pink theme, I'm going to show you the mess/accidental success that was G's birthday cake. Original plan: Order a cheap-o, plain cake from Sam's and try my almond bark/monogram idea. You might remember that I created cupcake toppers in the form of spider webs for Halloween--using a template which I traced over with the melted bark. My thought was that you could use that same idea with various fonts, printing them in a large size on to paper, which you would then slip under a sheet of wax paper and trace away using a decorator's icing bag (or Ziploc baggie, cuz that's how I roll).

With me?

Brilliant plan, until I melted my almond bark and added GOBS of pink food coloring. I was going for hot pink, and didn't realize that food coloring, in that large amount, would drastically alter the consistency of the almond bark. Within seconds it was stiff and goopy...and obviously not going to work.

Plan B. Throw a bunch of pink crap on the cake. Oh yes, this is where 6 trips to Hobby Lobby (in ONE week) and my generally hoarding habit pay off!

I ended up loving it more than the original idea, and there were no panic attacks as I came up with the new and improved plan.

Cake #2, for our family party on G's actual birthday, is pictured up top--I just couldn't let the almond bark idea fail me. So we baked up a Duncan Hines yellow, iced it up (and added GOBS of food coloring), and created the letters with the almond bark. So easy, and much better than me trying to freehand it on the cake!

And that is the story of how I was victorious over baked goods.