Tag: cake

#18 Bake and Decorate an Eccentric Cake

The list has been finished and now it’s time to post every time I complete a goal.

Speaking of which I have started checking stuff off and the first goal completed is a cake! Specifically, I intended for this goal to be a cake that I just did for fun and call it good. But the cake that actually fulfilled this goal ended up being a wedding cake. Who knew I’d ever end up making a wedding cake?! Cause holy frick I never thought I would.

 

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My brother got married Friday August 31, 2018 and I was tasked with making the cake. Which I have no clue why they thought they should give that responsibility to me, but they did and wonderfully it fits in with my goals. So win! But seeing as this was a time sensitive cake I called in one of my best friends to come in and save the day and help me decorate this cake. She’s helpful and wonderful and she totally had my back when I effed (and by effed I mean palmed the whole top-tier when it got stuck and just committed) up this whole cake. Luckily it turned out great and looked gorgeous and tasted amazing (we are currently dealing with being hit up by multiple guest to make cakes for them and that is way too much responsibility). My brother and my sister-in-law had total faith and trusted us and we pulled through.

Also, on the off-chance that we didn’t have enough cake or that one failed we had prepped two sheet cakes of German chocolate cake. So, we made a lot of cake and had more than plenty for all of the guests at the wedding.

First goal checked off and I’m super happy I had my friend there and I’m super ecstatic to be starting all these challenges.

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Creative

I’m going to have to get creative with this list…. Yeah lame pun. Was worth it.

Creative List:

  1. Master a classical piano piece
    • I’ve been playing the piano since I was a kid and it’s embarrassing to say how much I actually suck at it. This has been something that I have already been working on and it’s something that I have always loved, but have just never been good/patient enough. Also, I’m talking full mastery of this piece, not the easier version just to say I did it. I want the difficult, fast paced piece that will literally make me scream in anguish, but will be totally worth it. This was originally 5, but I don’t want to get stuck on a number. Right now I just want to focus on a piece that I love and if I continue to learn more I’ll be thrilled. But for this goal I’d like just to have one under my belt.
  2. Make a table top game
    • I love board games, card games, dice games, just games. Therefore, I want to make my own table top in its entirety. I want to have a box on my shelf of my game and be like “yeah, I made that.”
  3. Build a game table (Looking at you Brother)
    • As much as I love my board games I have nowhere awesome to play them. My dear brother of mine came up with the idea to build this table a year or two ago and it has yet to happen. I’m going to choose to believe it will happen before I’m 30.
  4. Finish a full art journal
    • With all journals I get about 20 pages in, then forget about it and then start a new one. So for this I want to have a journal and fill it completely up, but writing all the time is difficult (read: she says as she’s writing a blog post). To counter that I am starting an art journal (read: I am so not artistic) that will be full of randomness and maybe some art (read: it won’t be pretty).
  5. Paint a picture
    • I’m not a strong painter, but I’d like to go to a Canvas and Cocktails so I see myself doing this one day. Plus, it’s not like the picture needs to look good…right?
  6. Scrapbook
    • My parents have all of the family and childhood photos just stacked up in a closet still inside the Walmart developed photo envelopes. Never been touched, just there. I’d like to go through all of it, maybe with my family and get them all in photo albums. I secretly wanna be Leslie Knope, so I’m going to make this goal focused on making a cool scrapbook.
  7. Learn calligraphy
    • The videos of calligraphy are always so cool and calming and pretty. I wanna learn the ways.
  8. Bake and Decorate an Eccentric Cake
    • This is a smidge drastic and extravagant. I was thinking like Cake Wars, but maybe not exactly like Cake Wars. They go all out and they know what they are doing (ish) and I am not nearly skilled enough. I just wanna decorate a cake that looks awesome at least once in my life though. Think a less extreme Cake Wars cake for the beginner level cake lover.
  9. Learn ballroom dancing
    • Who doesn’t wanna dance like a classy boss?
  10. Learn to Play Recuerdos de la Alhambra
    • For those of you who don’t know this song it is a classical guitar piece that I’ve recently developed a fascination for. Fun fact I don’t know how to play guitar besides Wonderwall by Oasis and this seems like something completely random that I want under my belt.