Cake Fantasticness

Hey Everyone! My sister had a birthday recently, which gave me the wonderful excuse to break out all my cake toys. She loves sushi, so behold her chocolate cake, with Baileys cream filling and raspberries confection - although it really looked much cooler in person:

Courtney: If you are reading this, Stop Now, because I loved making this for you, and don't want to make you feel like I'm complaining or something. Love you girl! Come back!

(She recently moved home to AK.)

This cake was a pain in the butt. You probably can't see it, but all that sushi is coated with actual grains of sugar rice that took me maybe an eon to make. Plus, I carried the materials around town with me all day for a week, so whenever I had a moment I could work on it - which made lots of people look at me weird and conclude I was crazy. After said rice was made, I had to INDIVIDUALLY PLACE EACH GRAIN. Holy crap.

All in all though, I had a great time, and it turned out just like it looked in my head. Sculpting and painting fondant to look like fish was great fun. I enjoy being good at something.

The only blips were at the sushi restaurant where we were taking Court to dinner - first, the head guy thought we had the audacity to bring our own sushi to his restaurant, and he was pissed. I didn't' even realize, bc it may be good, but still obviously not sushi. Luckily, Court set him straight, so he didn't give us week-old fish.

However, the real horror came at the end, when we offered everyone in the restaurant a piece, because there was no way we could eat all that cake. As I finished cutting the last slices, I hear, "Tastes like candy."

My heart kind of bottomed out as I turned around to see that the other Japanese patrons WERE EATING THE DECORATIVE FONDANT SUSHI.

YA'LL.

Fondant is not meant to be eaten in such large... lumps. I mean, it is edible sugar and everything, but that doesn't mean you would actually want to eat it. Kind of like Spam. It just doesn't taste good. Not to mention these were covered in little hard 'rice' pieces that had dried to cement consistency. It must have been terrible. I was horrified, but now it made no point to tell them they weren't supposed to eat it. So, they politely pretended it wasn't that bad and they didn't think I was crazy, and I tried not to notice the whole thing. Btu my inner baker was kind of screaming.

At least the cake was good.


Also, the sushi guy is really nice and awesome and everything, but whenever we wanted to take a picture he would always hand Courtney some giant knife. I'm sure that was a huge deal, and they are probably his grandfather's knives from Japan, and we were very honored. However, it makes all of Courtney's birthday pictures look like she is 5 seconds away from murdering someone. It's kind of hilarious.

Stay Tuned - there were some birthday shenanigans I'll write about later - this is just all about the cake.