I spent most of last week working on a baby shower cake. Sarah's friend from work, Steph, aka Steph-O, is having a baby girl. She needed a cake for her shower. Sarah said my mom makes cakes! And so I started planning a cake resembling an In N Out fry boat (the thing they serve you the fries in) with a teddy bear cake sitting in it surrounded by fries.

I planned long and hard. I had a schedule, which I kept to. Despite the fact that I later volunteered to help the Young Women make truffles and chocolates for the tuesday night activity. Once that was done, I mixed up four batches of sugar cookie dough (for the cookies shaped like french fries) and put them in the fridge.

Wednesday night I baked up the cookie french fries, as well as about 20 very large sunflower shaped cookies for Matthew's last day at the Y-Childcare. Those were frosted and sprinkled with orange sugar, for a luau theme. They were so cute! No pictures of them though.

Thursday night I baked three 9x13" cakes and a teddy bear cake. Filled and chilled the 9x13s.

I also cut a stencil for the palm trees that go around the fry boat. I had taken the fry boat to work and blown it up on the copier. Pretty smart! :)

Friday I carved the fry boat cake (Katie helped), frosted it (which was nightmarish since it warmed up and started crumbling and had to be put back in the fridge). Then covered it with fondant (Sarah helped) and stenciled on the palm trees (Sarah and Matthew helped). I also started frosting the bear.

Saturday morning I finished the bear and in the afternoon took it to the shower. It was met with a wonderful enthusiastic reception! People asked Steph where she'd gotten it - as if it were a professional cake! I know it wasn't that perfect, I could see the defects. But it looked like an In N Out fry boat with a bear in it, surrounded by french fries. Very cool!