Right. This website is called Simmiecakes. Haven’t talked about cake much lately. To be perfectly honest, it’s because I haven’t baked a cake in a while. It’s been a crazy few weeks. I’ve been in Vienna and Prague, now I’m in California, and I’ve got a triathlon and a trip to Haverhill coming up in the next few weeks.
So…please forgive me for not having made a cake in a while. But I thought I’d tell you how this whole ridiculous cake thing started.
See that cake up there? That’s the first fun cake I ever made. Coincidentally, I made that cake around Christmas time just under 3 years ago. I took one of those Wilton cake decorating classes at a craft store with my friend in the fall and we learned basic cake decorating techniques. I learned how to ice a cake, pipe a border, and make some roses. It was all well and swell, but not particularly exciting.
So I decided to try something else. I spent a lot of time watching Ace of Cakes on the Food Network and decided something a little…different was up my alley. So I went for it. The bottom of the chimney is cake. The top part (under all that icing snow) is rice crispy (oh, rice cereal) treats, as are the legs. As you can see, I was still learning how to use fondant. Yucky, craft store, store-bought fondant. Tasted nasty.
I’ve learned a lot since then. And I don’t think when I made this first cake that I’d ever think it would snowball into what it is now. In fact, it took me a while to make another cake. Do you think you can figure out which cake I made next?