T & P (T*ts and Pasta)

Well, the past couple of days have been interesting to say the least... After my success production of the blue and white polka dot cake, I was hired for a cake job! One of my best friends, his mother, and her fiancé came by Murfreesboro before my friend, Jerico, flew back to Chicago. I had sent them a picture mail of my cake because I was so proud of it, and then I receive a text. "Can you make a tit cake?" I can honestly say that I have never done that... At first, I thought it was a joke, but they were dead serious when we went to dinner. His mother and her fiancé wanted one for their friend's birthday party this weekend. On my high from the success of my first fondant cake, I agreed. I was given about 18 hours to make the cake. Sounds easy, right? WRONG! I first bakes my cakes and cooled them. While that was going, we, Rachael and I, tried to make fondant from scratch. It looked like it was working and running smoothly in the beginning. I have only one spring form pan, so baking the cakes took about 2-2.5 hours. Cooling took about an hour, of course. Icing and stacking took all of about 20 minutes. I colored the fondant and started to roll it out... The fondant became dry and was cracking to pieces, I added shortening. Didn't help. Added more, didn't help. Added more, didn't help. Then it was greasy and cracking. I eventually got fed-up at around 2pm, so I threw it away. Then I tried another fondant recipe. This time, it wouldn't come together AT ALL! I worked for 4 hours on it and eventually gave up. At 6 am, I ventured to Wal*Mart and bought a pound from Wilton. I colored it and it worked! The one request was that the cake have a huge nipple, and that is what I gave them! Here is a pic of the cake:

If you read my previous blog entry, you will have read about our pasta dough experience. Well, we finally did something with it. We made homemade spinach ravioli! We rolled it out and cut out circles for each side. Then, we made the filling which consisted of: ricotta, fresh parmesan, salt, pepper, spinach, and an egg! The filling is magnificent! Here is a pic of our filling(before we added the spinach) and the dough:

EXCITING NEWS! I bough a Kitchenaid Mixer! It is fabulous! The minute I got it, I made cookies! lol I seriously walked in the door, opened it, and made them! Here is my mixer, Marie:

Also, our herb garden is finally growing! Thyme was the first to show leaves!

Besides from gardening, baking, pasta making, and cake foreplay, I have also been busy redecorating my living room! We ordered furniture from Ikea and received them today! Will post pictures on next entry when everything is all together! I also ordered 40 spice jars, bahaha! Tomorrow, we are cooking our spinach ravioli, very excited! Now that I am a FREELANCE CAKE DECORATOR, I am sure every blog will have at least one thing cake-related, lol. Until next time, have a good night and tomorrow!