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If I knew you were coming...I'd bake a cake!

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Yes, it is a complete oxy moron that a person who is in the process of getting approved for a sleeve is baking cake. But that is what I am doing. A good friend and co-worker is getting married soon and we are throwing her a shower at work. I was asked ( rather nominated) to make the cake for it. I am pretty well known for my baking skills. (Yep- another stereotype. A fat baker!) I heard through the grapevine she is not having an actual wedding cake at her wedding, so I decided to go all out and make her one. I am also completely insane and have a masochistic side! LOL What the HECK was I thinking? And this ain't gonna be your average thrown together, out of a box cake either. Nope. It will be three tiers, all double layer. The bottom will be devil's food with butterscotch caramel filling, the second layer is marble with chocolate ganache and the top will be white with raspberry filling. And if I wasn't already a glutton for punishment I am making my own homemade buttercream icing for it and decorating it with fall leaves I am making by hand out of gum paste! Really? REALLY?? And here is the kicker....I have NO formal training whatsoever. I just got a burr up my butt that I could do this. I jumped on the internet for ideas and it snowballed. This is also a loooong process. Last night I spent 5 1/2 hours baking the bottom layer of cake (2-14" cakes) and making the gum paste. Then I rolled it, cut out the leaves and started to paint them. Had to stop as they were still too tacky. So today at lunch I went home and painted a few. Tonight I am going to make the other two layers of cake ( 2- 12" and 2 -8") paint the leaves, and crumb coat the first layer. ( after I make a batch of icing) This is all after working an 8 hour day, and I also have to entertain a 4 year old! Tomorrow I will finish icing and decorate the whole thing for it to be ready for Friday. If I did this for a living it would be ok. It is kind of fun to be creative and make something. But to work a full time job, take care of a preschooler AND do this on the side.....well it isn't as much fun as I had thought. Yet here is the weird part. With all the cake and sugar and smells around me last night I had to make myself stop and eat something! I get so focused on getting done I don't want to eat. And once I stopped for the night I was so tired I didn't care about food. So maybe baking IS the key to weight loss...Hmmm

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I love baking as well, just for us and nothing fancy like that. I have noticed after I bake somethingI have NO desire to eat it. Its the strangest thing. If I do want to eat some its 2 days later and its all gone anyways.

My mother in law said when she was pregnant with ny husband she craved baked goods. She would go through all the trouble of baking and then her craving would be gone and everyone else would eat it.

I guess it's a normal thing.

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Oh by the way, that is a very nice thing you are doing for her. A cake like that can run around $1000. Maybe you will get orders at the wedding and this will be the start of a new business!!

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you must post a photo when you are done! very kind of you to do this. glad there isn't any temptation! sensory overload maybe. like when you work in a restaurant and don't want to eat the food.

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Well last night sort of messed up the whole "no temptation" part. While I am still not really tempted by the cake itself, the icing was another story. I decided to make homemade buttercream icing, which I have never done. Once I got the batch made I had to taste to make sure it was ok..Oh yeah, it was "ok". LOL I will NEVER again buy a tub of icing. Not only is it easy to make, it tastes AMAZING!!!! But the problem was I found myself licking my fingers way, way too much during the crumb coat phase. I licked off the caramel that oozed on the table, I licked the buttercream that happened to be on my knuckle. When all was said and done I would hate to begin to imagine the amount of calories and fat I ingested. This morning I had a Unjury protein shake just to help detox from last night!!! The leaves are taking a bit longer than I had imagined. I should have worked on them farther in advance. But you live and learn. Like I said, I am a novice. You are right WANNABALOSER, it is a bit pricey. But a lot of the items I bought to make this cake can be used again and again. ( the items used for decorating) I was able to get the cake mix really cheaply. ( The cake itself is a mix, everything else is being done from scratch by hand) I would estimate about $40ish in product for the cake, but the hours spent are where bakeries get to charge an arm and a leg. TES I will do my best to post a picture when it is complete.

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