Sweets for My Sweets...

Hola suga babies! Your fav sugar matriach has been quite the busy bee and she has the pictures to prove it. Don't you just love evidence as long as it's not incriminating. Anyway, off the cake subject for a mere moment. I just wanted to share with all of my lovely followers that I headed home to the land of the crab and 10 oz Bud cans this past weekend and it was just marvelous.

Ughh for all of you who don't know the beauty of a true Eastern Shore crabcake and a Budweiser beer -you have no idea what you're missing. I may adore the finer things in life, but sometimes finer just can't beat a 10 oz Bud. Oh dear god, I've lost my mind musing about cheap beer and absolutely nothing else. That's what happens when I go back home, my redneck tendencies seem to just burst from my pores.

Anyway, let me turn your attention back to what's important (please excuse the diatribe from above) CAKE...

I'm including a few pictures of what's been keeping me busy. The first couple of pictures are of the Wilton Course 2 finale cake - the basketweave cake. If I ever have to see royal icing flowers ever again, I intend on suffocating myself with a decorating bag. See the technique of creating royal icing to the perfect consistency isn't difficult, it's just down right depressing when you don't have a Kitchen Aid mixer. My little mixer that couldn't nearly died under the pressure, so if you don't have a Kitchen Aid mixer, just don't do it. Save yourself the drama and just create the Wilton rose using good old buttercream.

PICTURES TO COME, SOMETHING'S UP WITH THE SERVER

What else, what else? Yes, people, I cannot stress the importance of a crumb coat. I didn't have the time nor the patience this weekend to do one and look what I did to my cute little clown cake! There are visible crumbs and holes everywhere! The horror - the embarrassment. As a graduate of Wilton Course 2, I should've know better!!! It was my good friend in my head Alannis Morrisette who said you live, you learn.

This cake was for my darling husbands grandmother. She absolutely loved it! And the rest of the extended fam enjoyed it too. I believe it was my sugary sweet brother in law, Dustbunny whom I'm crazy in love with who said this cake is good! It's soo sweet...so sweet my teeth ache.

Mission Accomplished!

Until we meet again my suga babies!

Stay sticky sweet!