This last week was a crazy week. It all began during the weekend when I had triple booked myself on both Friday and Saturday nights. I was supposed to celebrate a friend's bday and bring a treat to the party, I really wanted to make cake pops so I set off to bake a cake. I turned on the oven and had it heat to the proper temperature. Then put my cake in to bake and set the timer, about 5 minutes before the timer was to go off I checked the cake with the tried and true "toothpick method" it came out dripping with batter, I thought to myself, "oh dear, this can't be good" but I tried to let it cook for the last 5 minutes thinking it would possibly make a difference. It didn't. Apparently our oven had been giving us some issues for the last week or so and I hadn't used it to realize. But it was DEAD AS A DOORNAIL! So of course at that moment I realized that this next week was a busy week of cake baking/decorating for me, as I had committed to make cupcakes for a friend's bridal shower AS WELL AS a Very Hungry Caterpillar first birthday cake for my baby cousin. I began to panic. During the week none of my family members had time to have a repairman come so the oven would not be repaired in time for me to bake either of these treats.
I did what I normally do when I'm struck with great stress, I forget about what I have to deal with until I have time to deal with it. (That's what I did with my speeding ticket... still haven't called to see how much I owe on that one) Wednesday rolled around and I realized that people were counting on me, so I needed to harass ask my friends if I could come borrow their oven. They were more than accommodating and even offered to feed me dinner. I got the cupcakes made for Friday evening's bridal shower without a problem, but the big stress eating at me was the cake I had to make for the birthday which was on Saturday afternoon.
Oh did I mention that the party was in Mississippi? So yeah I had to make it from my house to there at some point and this is what my schedule looked like from Wednesday to Saturday
Wednesday-
8 am: wake up and get ready for work
10 am - 7 pm: work
7 pm til: stuff at home and go to bed
Thursday-
8 am: wake up get ready for work
9 am - 6 pm: work
6 - 6:30 pm: mix up cupcakes
6:30 pm: bake cupcakes at great friend's house
7 pm: home and dinner and sleep and stuff
Friday-
8 am: wake up and get ready for work
9 am - 6 pm: work [during lunch break ice cupcakes for bridal shower and have panic attack about how/where/when I am going to make the looming birthday cake]
6 pm: to Hobby Lobby for an extra 8 in cake round pan
6:15 pm: home to get cupcakes and drive to friend's house for bridal shower
6:35 pm: arrive at bridal shower with cupcakes, set up and wait for the guest of honor to show up.
8:30 pm: back home to pack up stuff to drive to Mississippi where I was going to bake cake at Grammy's
9:00 pm: on the interstate where we got stuck in traffic TWICE due to construction and made it in to Grammy's house at about 12:30 am.
Saturday-
12:30 - 2 am: baking cakes
2 - 8 am: sleep
8-11:30 am: build and finish baking cakes and decorate cake
11:30-12:30: shower and get ready for birthday party
1:30 - 2:30 pm: run to BAM for Very Hungry Caterpillar plush and cardboard book for birthday gifts. Then food at Chick Fil A. Oh, and Grammy has coupons for free Krispy Kreme that are expiring in a few days? better use those.
3 pm: to the party, set up cake, help finish getting stuff out for party
5 pm: The party was over, and then we went to Grammy's got our stuff and we all headed back home with Grammy and Gramps in tow, since they were coming to speak at church the next morning.
Doesn't that look like a blast?! No? Yeah I didn't think so. But in the following pictures you can see some of my creative process and see how great the cake actually turned out.
Now you can see why I was flipping out about having time, I HAD to do the rainbow cake or else the cake would suck. At least I think it would. Thankfully, since Sunday my life has slowed down quite a bit. Well for the most part - I do have a Tupperware party at my house tomorrow night, a farewell party to go to and make a treat for on Friday, charity walk and then a relaxing hair appointment on Saturday.
I think this is quite enough for one post.
Until next time!
-FranklyBecca
p.s. I used tips on how to do this from a blog I found by googling located HERE. It is the VERY BEST rainbow layer cake tutorial I have come across.
