Audrey's 5th Birthday

Ahh...Saturday mornings.  I forget how it feels to wake up naturally, without an alarm clock and without plans!  Actually, I woke up this morning in a slight panic because I thought I forgot to set my alarm for work at the donut shop!  And then realized it was Saturday!  Yay...a day I actually didn't need to set my alarm.  And now, here I am, somewhat awake...pot of coffee ready...hubby playing video games and me, well, how about a new blog post?

Today's post is on Audrey's Mickey/Minnie Mouse birthday party.  It was a pretty simple order for me, that included cake, sugar cookies, and donut holes.  Of course, I added, in the fashion I usually do, Mickey and Minnie Mouse shaped donuts and macarons!  This order was a test in ability, patience, agility, and how to restart my heart from shock.  I would like to say I passed in each section.  Didn't I say this was a simple order??  Check it out:

The order started out well.  I figured I'll get most of the cake ready and then put on the mouse shapes the morning of...just so that the black doesn't condense onto the rest of the cake.  So, I got the cake ready to this stage (above)..and popped it into the fridge.  Now, I know there have been a lot of back and forth about putting fondant cakes into the fridge.  You're not supposed to and some do and swear by it and some don't and swear by it.  WELL, I've put fondant decorated cakes into the fridge before...many times, and have been fine.  This time around, the morning of the event, I went into work to finish up my 90% done cake.  And this was what greeted me:

Lesson one: how to restart my heart.  I literally shut the fridge door, blinked, and opened up the door again.  And then I thought if I blinked hard enough and opened my eyes wide enough, that the cake would magically appear as it was when I first placed it into the fridge.  Yeah...that didn't happen.  As you can see in the middle white layer, I had already wiped it to see how easy this would be to clean up.  It just smeared all over and laughed in my face.  Yikers, I thought...well, no time to sit and cry about it...I had to get going!  I cleaned the cake up as well as I could...and it was a pretty difficult task.  You see, the problem was, this cake was placed into one of our new refrigerators.  The temperature must have went too low and semi-frozed the cake.  Because when it was out and I was cleaning it up, it kept thawing out and running. even as I cleaned it up :(  The biggest problem was trying to get a clean line and clear definition of each cake layer, while cleaning up the sopping mess.  Here is the result:

What do you think?  Not too shabby, I thought.  Especially with no options to completely re-do the entire cake!  Here are the rest of the goodies:

What do your think about those Mickey and Minnie donuts?  That's something fun I can see selling at the donut shop!  Same with the sugar cookies and macarons.  These treats were a lot of fun to make and decorate.  Even the cake was fun...and given that extra excitement the cake gave me...well, I would be perfectly fine if it didn't try that again!  But hey, it's all in a day's work!

I'm just glad that everything came out well!  Happy birthday again sweet Audrey!  Until the next post dear readers!  Have a fantastic weekend!  Oh yeah..I almost forgot!  Happy new year dear readers!  Let's make 2015 a blast and just as memorable!