The Consumers Behind The Baker

Seeing as my blog is new, I thought I'd post a few pictures of those who are mentioned....




To the left is Chicky. My Rhode Island Red Chicken. She was born in late December and was rescued by me in January. She lived in my living room until she was big enough to go with my grandpa's 50+ chickens. She has first dibs on anything burnt or stale.

None of my grandpa's chickens are ever slaughtered. They live lovely lives laying eggs and digging up my grandma's flowers.

My grandma and grandpa.

(Me on the left, momma on the right)
My mom. Even though she doesn't have a sweet tooth herself, my mom doesn't mind eating my dinners.
We often cook together. She's just...awesome.

Prissy! The snugglies Pomeranian ever (in my opinion).

Here she's sampling a home made treat...yum.

And of course, Heather! My close buddy. We bake together and she often brings our goodies home to her family.

(Not by choice, mind you, I make her.XD)

She's gangsta.

Cake, Beaches, and Bears-OH MY!

When some people think of Summer, they think of beaches.
Well of course that's what my bud Heather and I think.
Well, you know...along with frosting, marbel cake, and a blue jell-o ocean.
We were sitting around when our eyes came across a glorious sight- the Woman's Day Magazine.
But not a boring edition of the lovely mag, the silly Summer Cake edition!
And we abruptly began planning our bear cake.
=D
The day before we were to decorate the cake, I made two marbel cake layers. Yesss, the recipe calls for vanilla but I couldn't not have chocolate in the cake. So I compromised and bought the Duncan Hines Marbel Cake Mix and made two 8-in. layers.
Finally Saturday arrived. The Day of Decoration.
We went about dying the frosting and frosting the cake first.
Heather, frosting around the beach/lagoon















Below, It's a smiley face!














Once we frosted the cake we made up the jell-o following the magazine's directions. And then began the two hour wait...
(We killed an hour going to get ice cream. I love ice cream....yum....)
Anywho, in the last lonnng hour we started decorating the victims,er, bears.
Below, the bears. Aren't they cuuuute? Mine are on top, Heather's on bottom.














Compared to the palm trees, the bears are very easy to make and much more fun. We ran into disaster with the trees. Melting chocolate got everywhere....it looked like Hurricane Katrina had devastated our peaceful shores. So there aren't any great close ups of the trees (lucky you).
All in all, the cake came out ubercute!