Week 14 -- Theme

Birthdays, baby showers, weddings and anniversaries, what will the next cake be?

The kitchen is covered with cake pans, such as  round, square, hearts and character shapes. They are just waiting to see which ones will be used next. The flour and shortening wait patiently to be used to coat the bottom and sides of the pans so that the cake will not stick to the sides and bottom.

The eggs, oil and cakes mixes wonder which ones will be chosen next. Yellow, white chocolate or strawberry taking side bets on who will be next. There are also marble, lemon and devil's food cake mixes sitting on the shelf. Peanut butter and confectionery sugar are part of the needed products depending on the order.

Bowls, measuring spoons and measuring cups all wondering when they will be put to use. The electric mixer and beaters are settled in the drawer. Frosting bags, tips, spatulas and color pastes are stored neatly in their boxes awaiting their time to be productive again.

Cake mixes mixed together, baked and cooling. Two cakes per layer, going to be three layers, six cakes needed in total. Cakes here and there and where ever a spot so they can cool.  It can take all day to bake off cakes, depends on how many you need. Oops, couple of these cakes got to much batter, need to cut  the tops off so they will sit flat on top of each other. Cake pieces and crumbs, what a mess it makes.

Mixing up the butter cream frosting, oh my it does make a mess. Confectionery sugar every where, that mixer sure flies that stuff around. Little bowls of frosting scattered around colors of pink, blue, yellow and green. Round wooden tooth picks stacked on the paper towel, one end colored with the pink, blue yellow and green as they have been dipped into different color pastes then added to the frosting. They can only be used once then no good. 

Cakes, frosting, bags, tips and stuff everywhere. Let the fun begin with the creativity. The big cakes go together a little at a time. The base frosting take the most time, as you want it to be smooth and it can't have any cake crumbs in it. Yes, base frosting is done, decorations on, decorations off, arranged and rearranged until picture perfect. Thought process is, "You have to make a mess to make a master piece."