Car Owners

I was going to make a post about all of our Hawaii adventures minus the headaches, but I first wanted to make a celebratory blog about Jacob and I officially being debt free. We paid off his car earilier this month with our tax return. We got brand new tires and an oil change to start off our car ownership on the right foot. Lets hope this car lasts a while!

Let Them Eat Cake!

Here is a picture of my final cake for my cake decorating class. It is a lemon cake with butter cream icing. I am not 100% happy, but my teacher gave me some compliments. The leafs I am definitely not all the way happy about, but I did like the extra color.
I think that the most valuable thing I learned in my cake decorating class is how to make a mean frosting.

• 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine softened
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar (approximately 1 lb.)
• 2 tablespoons milk

Cream the fat together. Add powdered sugar while beating in thirds. Add liquids. Add some almond extract too. My teacher did this and I craved her frosting every single day this semester. As with any frosting, keep balancing the the liquid and sugar out until you get the right consistency. Its so smooth and spreads nicely on a cake. And this is so easy to cut in half too because this recipe makes way more than enough for a normal size cake.