Erica's Special Cake

Erica has spent the last six months watching all these cake decorating shows on Food Network.  Well, now that she has all this "experience" in watching these people create these massive amazing cakes, she decided she wanted to make her own birthday cake and she really, really wanted to make fondant.  If there is something you must know about me, I actually hate to bake.  When Scott and I first got married, he did all the baking.  To me, it is too tedious to pull all those ingredients out and the measuring of it all makes me crazy.  I would much rather pull out a recipe and glance at the ingredients and throw it together guessing at the measurements or create my own meal.  Not to mention, science was not my strongest subject and honestly, baking is like a science.   Now, almost 20 years later and three kids that like muffins, cookies and homemade waffles, I have gotten better about baking but it still isn't my favorite and I think it is messy.  

Well, let's just say four boxes of cake mix, a dozen eggs and four pounds of powdered sugar later, Erica (with little supervision on my part) worked on her 13th birthday "masterpiece" and I am still trying to get powdered sugar cleaned out of my clothes .......