I'm done

Here's the cake. I didn't do jello at all, but all icing. I used brown sugar for the sandtraps, which apparently were a big hit, and tasted good too. I used blue gel for the water hazzard. The trees are spearmint leave candies with pretzels in them. The flag I bought as a cake decorating set. Let me just say, that it was a big hit and everyone loved it.

Now, if you want to continue thinking my cake was perfect, you should stop reading now, because I have a few things I need to share. First off, it was fairly simple compaired to a Dora cake with 10,000 colours. Also, I used diposible bags to make clean up easier. So, I started with the fairway, then the green. Then the sandtraps and water hazzard. Then, at 2:00 I looked in my box for my grass/hair tip and couldn't find it. It wasn't there. I turned the house upside down looking for it. It was AWOL. I had one option. Trevor had a dentist appointment at 2:30. We got the girls dressed for the party, I dropped him at the dentist and then flew all the girls to Michaels in SC so I could get my tip, fly back home and quickly finished the cake, which I'll talk about in a minute, and then get all the girls back in the car and pick up Trevor, with the cake on the seat, and then go to his parents house for supper. I cried on the way there. I was just done! And not ready to be social.

The cake decorating didn't go as planned. First of all, I used canned icing and it was way softer than I'm used to, and didn't do what I wanted. It was good for spreading and making flat, but for piping the grass, it really sucked. I had to do it absolutely perfect so that all of the blades wouldn't form together. I was really frustrated, since I was doing this quickly with 3 hungry little girls around me, and had to quickly get it done since Trevor was done his appointment and I had to go pick him up. Not a fun time for Mommy. Second, the pretzels were really hard to get into the leaves. They kept breaking on me and just frustrated me more. Oh well, there's not much I can do to fix what went wrong, other than to make sure I have everything I need before I start. Which I thought I had, but didn't. Not like I've done in the past. So, next will be Becca's birthday cake. I wonder what I should do for that??