Done!

What a crazy day yesterday was. KC did end up having an ear infection, but was surprisingly calm about it all most the day. Parker was another thing though. He was supposed to be sleeping but it was one of those days when he thinks he doesn't need a nap. And instead he was super cranky. But it all worked out and I got the cake done. For my first sheet cake I think it turned out alright. It took about 4 hours to finish including making the filling twice because it turned out funny the first time. I realized that 1% milk is not necessarily the best for fillings so the 2nd time I used heavy cream too and it was much better. Then I was going to put chocolate frosting on it, but couldn't find the recipe that I wanted and being afraid of messing it up and then not having enough ingredients to start over I opted for regular buttercream. So it was alright. And I know, how hard can it really be to make chocolate frosting, but I just wasn't sure what to do and I didn't want it to taste funny. So the cake is kinda interesting because one side has flowers, (the pink were the ones I made, the yellow from the store) and a lighthouse and water because one person who's b-day it was for likes the Oregon coast. So I looked up some info on the internet and found a picture of a lighthouse in Oregon and decided to make that and then the other side has a snowmobile because that's what the other lady wanted. I couldn't really think of a way to make it go together so I just put them in separate corners. It was fun to do and I learned a lot about what I would do the next time to speed up the process. It was fun to be able to frost it and actually have the icing look pretty good. I sure hope they liked it at the office, Aaron took it to work with him so we'll see when he gets home. Making cake while trying to entertain kids is exhausting, especially trying to keep little fingers out of the frosting. I think the most important thing I learned was not to give a 3 year old a large frosting flower to eat so he'll leave you alone. I paid for that mistake the whole rest of the day..