Work must be done

My oven is still out but my father in law's 60th bday party is Sat. I promised to make two cakes. One will be a center piece and the other specifically for him. He loves raisins so I will be making Rum Raisin cake specially for him.

So the main cake will be a tool box. I got the idea from Cake Central. So I needed to make a 12x12 square. I'm going to cut it in half and stack it. The cake needs to feed 60, so I will be making two cakes and stacking on top of each other. The cake should be about 8" high when I'm done. Anyway, since my oven doesn't work I have to run over to my moms to bake it. Then to add to it I only have 1 square pan that size. Needless to say, I was back in forth today.

Some exciting news today, my sister in law had her first baby. So I was a little distracted trying to find out everything. We did get to visit the new bundle of joy & the her parents in the hospital. She's so tiny and precious. Time flies, I can't remember my girls being that little anymore.

Went to dinner and then back to work. I got my cake board done. I used two pieces of foam board, glued them together. Then the real work begun. I covered the board as a wood flooring. Mixed up different fondant colors to give it some depth. Then rolling, cutting, & positioning. The final piece was some brown ribbon hot glued around the edges.