I'm still alive

I'm still here, just been summer busy! I do have a few things finished, just yet to get to taking some photos. In the meantime I thought I'd share a cake I made and decorated for a friends wedding shower. I love food decoration. I think I just never grew out of wanting to play with my food.



The couple is having a destination wedding so my other friend and I who hosted went with a beach theme. I tinted the frosting (I'll admit it's from a can. Not being a huge icing person myself I rather dislike making it from scratch). Then I made the shells from melting white chocolate and pouring it into molds. I then dusted them with edible gold dust/luster, pretty!



The "sand" is crushed vanilla wafers with a bit of brown sugar. This was also my first layer cake. My Mother always considered layer cakes the enemy, having terrible luck with them. So I had yet to venture trying on until now. With some handy internet tips think it turned out ok!



Also got a group shot of my bellydance class from our recent Spring recital. Shows us all wearing our handmade headbands I posted about last time. I had a great time and think we did pretty good!