Confection Frenzy!

Well, I am just now catching my breath after what as been the busiest week to date for me with baking. This past week I had seven different orders ranging from a dummy cake for an auction to a 3D red wagon filled with cake shaped creations. I feel as though I need to get a power hose to spray down every inch of my house from the nice layer of sugar, flour and whatever else Wrigley threw around. It is funny because in all of this time I have been doing cakes and working in front of my son he has always come to the table to join me and watch me work. I have been working with Fondant as a medium for cakes since the beginning and until two weeks ago he had no idea that it was really not play dough. While I was busy working on a shower cake I gave Wrigs a small piece of fondant to roll and play with to help distract him for a moment so I could work in peace. Next thing I know he put the fondant to his mouth, took one nice lick...and it was then that he knew his life would never be the same. I use a really nice high quality fondant for my cakes that doesn't taste like hard cardboard covering it so when Wrigley realized what it was he was playing with he immediately was trying to sit on the table and grab every piece he could find! After working on one cake for four hours I finally had to throw in the towel because it was hard to get much done with him grabbing everything in site from the fondant to the exacto knife...anything to get my eyes to look away so he could have another small taste of heaven. I am now going to have to start planning out my cake work time a bit better to try to keep little fingers away!! But, with all of this is was a fun and challenging past week. I hope that there will be many more like that to come!