May The Force Be With You....

Okay first off ... apologies for my month plus sabatical from blogging. I've had some internet issues and crazy things going on in life that prevented me from the blogging sphere.

All is good though, and fingers crossed my internet seems to be working, so bare with me as I make some baby steps until I get back into my groove.

Keeping it simple this first posting out, check out the Star Wars (more specifically the kick ass Stormtrooper Cake) I made for Jen's 5year old son Dylan's birthday this past Saturday.

Believe it or not it's really hard to find a flat picture of a Stormtrooper Helmet (everyone is so fancy these days and made 3D cakes using Fondant...which is a medium I still haven't embraced yet...can't get over the fact fondant taste like paste to me).

So I finally located a flat drawing on the internet, printed it out (after some help from a co-worker) and blew it up to the size I thought the cake would be sized. I then baked a doublebatched chocolate cake, cut out the drawing as a stencil, carved the cake into the helmet shape, then cut out all the black areas in the middle of the stencil, filled those in and then had to free hand the rest.

Yeah, I kinda kicked arse (I think) considering I am in no way an artist.