Dragon Cake

A couple of weeks ago I was asked to make a cake for a baby shower.  As they don't know the sex of the baby they call it little dragon.  I will admit I was PETRIFIED to make this cake!! It is one thing to make cakes for family they will love me anyways!!   Even if its not perfect.  But this, this one was for a girl I know and a TON of people I didn't were going to see it!! Cue panic mode!!

Throughout the week I was trying to come up with a design and idea of what the heck I was going to do. Plus work every evening.  Well 4 cakes and one 3rd degree burn later...

 I finally decided on a rectangular Black magic cake with Boston Creme filling.

Now this was by friday afternoon and I needed the cake by 6 pm saturday evening.  So whipped up the cake and filling and headed to work.  I had decided to make a dragon sleeping on the top made out of rice crispy squares covered in fondant.

By the time I got home from work Saturday morning at 12:30 am.  I realized  I had forgotten to grab the rice crispies AHHHHHHHHHHHHH now what!!

Thank heavens for my amazing wonderful supportive Husband who ran to the store at 1 am just to grab me rice crispy squares!!

Thank you Babe!! You saved my sanity!!

After 4 hours sleep, got up and the real insanity began!!  Now I am NOT a tidy baker, designer much to my poor Husband dismay! hahaa

the first layer of fondant, I added a second as it looked too lumpy

I completely forgot to get pictures of the disaster that insued.

My poor patient kids.  Picture this flour, icing sugar, pots,pans, bowls and a frazzled mom.  Fondant every where.  One that I let get the better of me across the kitchen on the floor.  Yes I will admit I threw it :D

Multiple texts to mike airing my frustration and dis satisfaction of it.  Multiple tries to get everything JUST right.  Forgot to eat and then finally............8 solid hours later.........

My amazing Husband cleaned the entire kitchen spotless for me!! Thank you my amazing family for being so patient with me :D

Now will I do this again?  Make another cake?  For now I say no.....but knowing me I wont be able to stay away............

My hobby

Let me tell you something you may not know about me, I am not a big shopper never have been.  Grocery shopping I love, I love to make wonderful things to eat, making up my own recipes and experimenting on my family.  Regular shopping...... I strongly dislike!!

One thing I have such a hard time resisting........Cook books and recipes!! Oh I love them!! I have been buying/collecting them for years and then "tweaking" them to be my own and make them better.  Well if Im honest not all of the ones I have tried to make "better" ya well thats not how they turned out!

Today I opened my cupboard and looked and I mean REALLY looked, not just opened it and grabbed something but Looked! OH MY!!! I have become a cookbook/ recipe HORDER!!  Ahhhhhhhh.  Some of them date back almost 100 years!  

And I just cant bring myself to get rid of them.  Every time I finally decide I am going to recycle all of the ones I havent looked at in years ( A lot of them!)  They get in the pile and with in ohhhhhhh 15 maybe if Im lucky half an hour.  Yep you guessed it they are right back in the cupboard!  Not only cookbooks but recipes I find in magazines, flyers, online.  

Terrible I know but really it could be worse I dont really spend money on them........It could be shoes.....or house stuff.......or clothes (Ya right).  I know I know excuses excuses.  

But when I am feeling kind of guilty about all of my recipes and cookbooks I realize this is my passion.  I truly LOVE to cook!! I love to create, to experiment.

I may not be a professional but HEY Im not bad :D

So yes I will continue to add to my collection and create....But first I am going to take all of these loose recipes and put them in a binder, and clean my cupboards.....