Punka, Munkin and Monkey's

christy — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:08:00 GMT

It's been a very busy couple of weeks. I've been running and baking so much I feel like I live in my van or the kitchen. Here's just a little about what I've been up to.

I was asked to make a cake for a precious boy's first birthday. I struggled with humidity issues all week. This was the first cake. As you can see it is starting to show stress on the bottom layer. And within an hour it was a puddle on the decorative cake board. :( The second cake was done in about six hours the night before the party with my husband out of town and all three kids feeling it necessary to need me EVERY minute! It wasn't as clean lined as I would have liked. But it turned out okay.

The next cake was for the Fall Festival at my son's school. I donated it to the PTA to raffle it off for money. I was blessed enough to get my Mother-In-Law to watch the youngest kids while the oldest was in school so that I could work exclusively on this cake. I learnt my lesson with the above cake! It was Orange Cake with White Chocolate Ganache filling. The hat was made out of rice krispies and fondant with black licorice for the stitching. I airbrushed both pieces and dusted the hat with cocoa powder to give it a weathered leather look.

We purchased out pumpkins for halloween on our annual trip to the Fall Festival at the Chesterfield Berry Farm. We held off carving them till we got closer to the date so that they wouldn't rot. Us girls got one pumpkin and the boys got the other. I like mine and think it turned out pretty well. The boys' pumpkin looked scarrry. That'll keep the trick or treaters at bay I'm sure! Besides the fact that we live 5 miles from town across from a cattle farm and never have had a trick or treater in four years! Those are just details.

Have a safe and Happy Halloween!

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Punka, Munkin and Monkey's