So we headed to the supermarket for cake mix and icing, and had a long detour at the craft store, where we went into a fugue state and bought enough stuff for about 15 other craft projects. This turned out to be the smartest move of the day.
The instructions required us to mash a cake together with a can of frosting:
And then to roll the mixture into balls, which are then impaled on sticks:
After this it should be simple enough, you simply dip the balls in yellow candy melt, wait to dry, and then decorate with those cunning edible magic marker pens.
Well, it was an unmitigated disaster. The icing clumped, the balls were flat on one side, if we were lucky, and a large number disintegrated in the icing bowl. Even the children refused to eat them.
At one point we dissolved on the floor as several of our master creations slowly slid down the sticks on which they had been suspended.
The edible marker pens were impossible to work with. Eventually we ended up with this, and threw the rest away:
The (unsmiling) end.
4 comments:
oooh, your pain is hilarious
Ok, get this: Mr. Cake liked them. He's already eaten two. I'm not making this up.
I always knew there was something wrong with Mr. Cake.
I will note that Baby Gateau was begging for one this morning, took a nibble, then put it back.
sadness! They don't even look yellow!
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