A Dozen Years for Our Firstborn - January 18, 2011

I always like to make birthday cakes for my children. Perhaps I should invest in cake decorating classes. I insist on doing it, but have absolutely NO training. So I decided I should make a sphere cake for the ball (which I think I had to bake twice because I didn't let it bake long enough) and made homemade marshmallow fondant because I didn't want all the preservatives in the store bought variety and because I was trying to make the cake as difficult as possible. Marshmallow fondant was a ridiculously sticky mess until you get it kneaded to the right consistency. But I has happy the I could create a #12 basketball jersey for the cake.