The Chiefs on the food network and TLC lie. They make everything look so easy. They convince you that you, a normal average Jo can bake masterpieces! They place thoughts in your head. Thoughts like " Hey! He looks normal! I look normal! I can make toast, thus I can totally do that!" Only to have you realize halfway through your house burning down that no you cannot dazzle everyone with a masterpiece constructed out of sugar and cake.
Sometime last night I had the brilliant thought that I could not only make a cake but I could also decorate it with fondant!
I made drawings!
I looked it up on the Internet!
I made lists!
I remembered I couldn't bake a cake to save my life!
So, I reevaluated. I decided that what I really wanted to do was use fondant, so I decided to make cake out of the box.
I made more lists!
I made new drawings!
I made phone calls looking for ingredients!
I watched Invader Zim!
The next day I went to the grocery pharmacy to buy glycerin. A quick note to anyone buying glycerin, it comes in a bottle and looks like poison! I was so nervous that I was going to be accused by someone of trying to poison my boyfriend. I also bought 3 friggin pounds (!!) of icing sugar.
Everything went okie dokie, until I overfilled the cake pans and they spilled over onto the heating element and caught on fire! Smoke billowed out of the oven while I ran around like a chicken without a head. Eventually everything got under control and started again.
Let me make this clear, FONDANT IS NOT EASY! Took me 5 hours!
Here, for your viewing pleasure is my cake :)
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