Have A Nice Weekend!

Me at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Harrodsburg, KY. The most serene and pleasant place I have ever visited.

Look What I Can Do

You have to say that like Stuart would on MADtv.

Anyway, Rolled Fondant class was so much fun last night!
(I'm a really big dork aren't I?)

I'm half-way happy with my cake.

It's not that I don't like it, I just wish the colors would have turned out a little different and there are quite a few mistakes. But hey, OK for my first time attempt though.

Here is my 1st fondant creation.

I really like our instructor for my cake decorating classes and everyone else in the class is so sweet and so much fun to work with. I think I'll miss them.

Here are the other cakes that were created last night. My pictures are a little blurry and I'm not sure why.

No orders at this time please!

Ha ha

It's Like Riding a Bike

Look what I got yesterday!

Doesn't Shari look so much happier taking it for a spin? And she is still in work clothes!

I was really on it for like 7 minutes and I'm SORE today! No lie.

It kicked my butt! Literally. Seriously.

All my family and friends are laughing at the thought of me riding a bicycle!

Ha! Me too!

The tags are still on it because I haven't decided if I want to keep it yet.

Sweet Tooth

I'm up to my eyeballs in frosting and fondant these days!

Right now I have two classes a week. Every Monday and Wednesday.

Shew! Lord help me!

Tonight I'm making Rolled Buttercream.

Tomorrow night I'm decorating my first cake with fondant.

I need a lot of luck and patience!

You Really Are Missin Somethin

Can you tell I really like this pose?

My husband's family has a barn.

With horses and chickens. And usually several hundred goats.

I love love love visiting the barn!

Everyone there thinks it's pretty funny that I love taking pictures of everything because it's just so ordinary to them.

My little cousin, Maria, works at the barn at a regular basis. Much to her dismay.

While watching her huff and puff about having to feed the chickens, I told her she should feel lucky. "A lot of girls would love to do this", I said.

Her response was "Well, they AIN"T missin nothin."

She is a sweet girl.

Here are some more pics.

See me in the eyeball?! This is my grandfather-in-law, Lonnie...on a 5 gallon bucket in the middle of the yard. He is such a funny, adorable man. And I just love him to pieces.
He loves telling me what he has to eat in his freezer everytime I visit him. Usually he SAYS he has deer, opossum, goat, squirrel, raccoon, turkey, and anything else you could imagine. The only thing I don't believe he has is opossum.

Although I do know he has had it before.

Fruit Pizza

I thought I would share this quick and easy dessert.

I'm sure you've had it before and maybe even made it.

It is one of my very favorites and I could devour the entire pizza! I would never of course! :)

As you can tell, I just threw the fruit on there. No pattern to it. I wasn't taking it anywhere besides my kitchen, so I really didn't care.

Make it because its so easy and so yummy.

Here is the recipe I use.

Fruit Pizza

1 roll of refrigerated sugar cookies (homemade if you want but who wants?)
1 8oz. cream cheese
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Fruit of your choice
(I used strawberries, grapes, bananas, and canned peaches) *See Side Note

Heat oven to 350. Press sugar cookie dough in round pizza pan to form the crust. Bake around 15-18 minutes or until golden brown. Let crust cool completely!

Beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla with electric mixer on medium speed until fluffy. Spread over cooled cookie crust. Arrange fruit on top. Devour!

*Side note*
This was my first time using canned peaches. I don't think I will use them again and probably wouldn't recommend using them. Blueberries are really the best! I just didn't have any.