Have you ever just had one of those days where it seems like everything that can go wrong...does?
Yeah, well I am NO different!
I had a
late Saturday night...
eh,
with my Kids...in which I said, I will have
PLENTY of time
tomorrow to bake an
Eclair Cake for my
Dad's birthday.
Sure.
Of course.
Then, I wake up only to find that the
jello pudding I placed on the counter in
anticipation for my
bake-off is in fact
NOT Vanilla...but
Cheesecake?
Really.
Why do I have cheesecake jello pudding anywhoo?
This lead to an
impromptu trip to the
grocery store a
mile jog down the road.
Sure, no biggie....except when you factor in the
two kids who are rowdy, rambunctious and not into the whole "
lets run to the grocery store real quick"
bribe that
this Mama had going for her.
Sure, right...sounds like a
fantastic Sunday,
Funday with Mom at the Grocery Store....
OK, no biggie. We get shoes on...scarfs...hats...coats..mittens and load into our
semi-warm car for our jog up the road. The
wind was
blowing gusts that
seriously made me shiver, wishing I could
just stay inside,
bundled up under my black and white leopard electric blanket (of course, turned up
HIGH!).
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Our trip included a few other items on top of our
pudding...including two extra boxes of cake mix...OJ...and bread!
- Sure, it was quick.
- Sure, it was boring.
Sure, MY kids act up the entire time we are on our adventure...even smashing the BREAD because they were ringing up the items in the cart, which required Ms. Six to lean over the side...mind you, we were literally in the store twenty minutes TOPS!
#eek
#thisismylife
Check out went smooth. The walk to the car, although
COLD, went
smooth.
(Thankfully Ms. Four still enjoys riding in the front of the cart so it requires just a juggle of one loose child!)
- We loaded.
- We drove home (I may or may not have had a stern talk with these girls who required extra micromanaging inside of the store!) parked and unloaded (still in the cold!).
Sure, that should be the END of the excitement for one day, right.
Ugh...wrong!
Cake Bake Off begins shortly after our trip.
2 boxes of white cake mix.
Well, I knew that
it was all going to go arye shortly after the
rise because
the rise lifted my cake a good inch over the lip of my pan. #houstonwehaveaproblem
OK.
- I will bake.
- I will smoosh.
- I will poke and fill with my vanilla pudding mix.
- I will refrigerate.
- I will have plenty of room to top with chocolate frosting.
#iwaswrong
Me and
my brilliant plans include moving this giant cake to
a larger pan #hindsight - in which the cake decided to
split in two right in the damn middle.
#abortmission
#distasterahead
Yea...
Cake 1, Kel 0.
It was a LOSS! (wish my cake had insurance)
By now, we have
one (1) hour until we need (
NEED) to leave for the
PARTY.
(I swear I did not wait to the last minute)
Panic was rising but
I decided to take a deep breath,
start new.
(hence those extra cake boxes I picked up!)
Twenty quick minutes later (and only 1 cake box) the cake was
done.
(and not huge!)
- I poked, filled, refrigerated. It was t-minus ten minutes, so it was Chocolate Frosting time.
- I frosted.
- I piped a terrible HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD on top- it looked sad.
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Ms. Six's remark summed it up, "I bet it tastes better than it looks Mom." #eek
So, despite the
looks of the cake, it was
awesome tasting...and I brought a trifle
(Dump Cake) along from my broken
monster cake that was
equally delicious!
Yesterday I was sad.
I had failed.
Today,
I am laughing.
- I survived.
- We all survived.
Sure
my cake got some
laughs.
Sure there were some
comments made about the
looks of the
whole mess.
But it was an adventure!
(Ain't it always!)
#toadventure
#dontforgettolaugh
#memoriesarebeingmade
#lifeatgraygables
What you need for the BOSTON CREAM POKE CAKE:
It's Saturday. I get it...you wake up, probably more towards the afternoon...(unless you have kids!) and you just want to chill. 
Well I am here to tell you... 
But, our products DO NOT stop at the Sprinkles! 
