Fondant, French for Headache

Congrats Ricky and Mari!!

With ever increasing excitement we prepared to celebrate the nuptials of our beloved Ricky to his betrothed Mari. I in my exuberance agreed to produce a cake of unprecedented proportions (for me) which would set the beat for their new life. Having little knowledge of the working of fondant we called upon Naomi and Ambree the recent graduates of a cake decorating class to enlighten us. So with one practice cake under my belt we prepared for a week that promised to be full, nae bloated with activity. Allow me to paint a picture. Keeping in mind that cake gets stale, we had a cake to create on Mon., the likes of which shall remain unsubscribed, let me say it was also fondant practice. Then we had bachelor and bachelorette parties on Tue. Andrea baked two of the cakes on Wed and I iced and covered them in fondant. Thur. little sister Faith arrived home from her mission to Uruguay

Yea Faithy!!

we went to the temple for Mari's endowment, and I iced and covered another cake. Fri. we finished baking the last and biggest cake. Andrea went to little bro Ben's fiance's shower, and I attempted to cover the final cake with seven and a half pounds of fondant. Now if you have ever attempted to roll out that much fondant you may have some idea for the nature of the ensuing challenge. It was at about 11:30 pm that I was tempted to see what that lump of fondant could do to a window, or a wall. Regardless of my unbridled aggression, with some alterations the cake was completed, almost. After a morning of work on Sat. (taking me to 50 hrs for the week) I spent two hours finishing the trim and touch up. So after 13 cake mixes, 3 doz eggs, 5 hrs of oven time, 15 lbs of fondant and 8 lbs of butter-cream, the beat could finally go on. Once delivered it was as though atlas shrugged (borrowing the written imagery of Anne Rand) and the weight of the world rolled off my shoulders. That is to say the gauntlet was run and I could sit for a bit.

Ahhh now I get the drum reference!!