Damn You, Gourmet Girl You Got Me Again

I know. Such strong language for a title, but that is how much I loathe this toy company! They got us last year with their cupcake maker and now they got us this year with their cake decorator set. Santa was not going to get it for Reesi even though she wanted it so badly, but then Target put it on sale for $15. He couldn't pass up the good deal. Turns out it was not such a good deal.

I put off getting this thing out for as long as I could. One day I heard rustling upstairs and I go to see what it was. Reesi was cracking it open, ready to cook.

Mixing fondant

This is the fondant. Notice how chunky and gooey it was. When Reesi tried to pick it up it would just tear into a gunky mess. I promise we followed directions exactly.

The cake: It came out with this nice ravine down the middle.

See the tubing. We put batteries in it and the gel in the applicator. When we turned it on it was supposed to propel the gel out so that Reesi could decorate to her little hearts desire. However, it wasn't strong enough and the gel wouldn't come out at all.

As you can tell Reesi had fun regardless. I was the one that was fuming with anger and frustration. The final outcome was a beautiful blob.

So we decided to make our own cake and buy some fondant with our 40% off coupon from JoAnn's. The idea was to shape it like a football for the Super Bowl. So I poured all the batter into an oval pan which turned out to not be big enough at all, hence the nice cracks all over the top.

When I tried to cut it into a football shape all those cracks just started falling to pieces. Duff makes it look so easy! I ended up having to cut away over half the cake just so it wouldn't fall apart.

We didn't have enough fondant to cover the whole cake so we were just going to use it to decorate the cake.

Reesi loved this part.

She even used her camera to document the process. I wonder where she learned that?

The final product. Beautiful, isn't it? We are thinking of going into the cake making business. Give us a call to order your cake!!