Cake Decorating Week - Days 2 & 3

On Tuesday, I spent forever trying to get the cake decorated. I did the crumb coat at one time, then much later I was able to do the top coat of frosting.

This is after the top coat of frosting. I think I did pretty good for my first time. There was hardly any crumbs in it.

I was finally able to decorate the cake after the kids went to bed. They had requested a rainbow cake, so that's what I decided to do. I used a new little decorating kit that Jason, my brother, got me for Christmas. I ran into a few problems, but was able to work past them. I'm  not really good at a lot of the decorating techniques because I haven't practiced them enough, so I was a bit slow and everything was pretty uneven. The kit comes with 4 bottles that you attach the tips to, but that led to a few problems because I was using 7 colors. What I tried doing was starting with the red, then I mixed yellow dye to make it orange. The problem is that the bottles are accordion shaped so that they are easy to squeeze, but that means all the dye and frosting get stuck in the folds. It definitely made the job a bit more difficult than if I'd used icing bags, but that's okay. It still came out pretty cute. (I haven't put Photoshop back on my computer yet, and I'm too lazy to do it now.)

This morning, I was woken up by the kids and Annabelle was asking for her hands to be washed. It took a minute to sink in, but then I asked her why she needed her hands washed and she told me, "From the frosting." So I ran into the kitchen and looked in the fridge, where we'd stored the cake so the frosting didn't melt, and the cake now looked like this.

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It still tastes good, and I was able to salvage enough (after she got to it again on the counter) to share with the kids' friends. Besides eating cake, I didn't do anything for cake decorating today because I was just too busy.