this is how we do it.

i told you i'd do it. 

i couldn't resist. 

for one, it looked like a lot of fun.

and two - i couldn't wait to work up that frosting.  

... all 4 cubes of butter included.

sometimes i wish i had the patience to take prettier pictures.
but at midnight, i don't.  the phone will have to do.
ignore the lighting.  the battery was dying so the flash wouldn't work. 

a phone is a phone is a phone. 

and it's a camera.

since this was practice {and it was midnight} i decided to go with a doctored up cake mix.

and i made just a mini 6" cake.  not the full 8" or 9".

for the sake of NOT opening up a brand new bottle of orange food coloring, i used a bit of soft pink and yellow.

it was a failure.

it looked just like the red.

so i ate it, instead.

between yesterday's post on facebook and the comments here on the blog, i decided to stack the cake in an order OTHER than plain ol' r.o.y.g.b.i.v.

freak. 

gay people stole the rainbow from the innocent baketress. 

crumb coat.

let's take a break and celebrate.

frosting a cake in buttercream is the WORST. especially when the cake is anything other than vanilla.

you're either a lover or a hater of frosting.

you either scrape it off your slice of cake, or you eat it by the sugary spoonfuls.

for a cake decorator, the frosting is a tool more than a tasty treat.

sometimes a well decorated cake requires a lot of frosting.

as a frosting user, it was a deeee-light to work with.
it was smooth like butta.

{wait. it is butter. like, all butter.}

as a frosting consumer, it was deeeee-lish to eat.

not gritty like the stuff you're mentally tasting from a costco sheet cake.

smooth.  like whipped butter.

but better.

the scraps.

left overs for the one slaving in the kitchen.

the lucky receivers?  my co-workers.

some people take pictures of their goods on pretty cake plates and fancy settings.

i take them on formica desks in cubicle spaces with engineering plan sets in the background.

i think the surge protector adds a nice touch.

the first slice is always the hardest.

my co-workers didn't know what to expect.

i just told them to be excited.

it was an unveiling ceremony, of sorts.

{want to get an engineer excited? expose them to color.}

they loved it.

taking pictures of the cake to send back to their wives at home.

awesome.

and now, i'm ready to do it all over again.