I been trying to cram as much fun as possible into the last couple weeks of summer. A few pool parties, shopping trips to the outlet malls, playing Just Dance on the Wii and just hanging out with friends. My classes at UNLV start this week too, so I am going to be pretty busy. The other day, Rick had gotten free tickets at work for the new Nanny McPhee movie. The tickets had the wrong date printed, so Holly called the theater and they told her the event was that night. So, Rick, Holly, Joe, Donita and I all get down there and the theater tells us that the event was two days ago. We tell them that Holly called and someone told her it was that night, and they kept trying to tell us that they are not responsible for misprints. After talking to two different managers, they finally let us pick a movie to watch for free. We eventually decided to see Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. It was pretty funny, especially if you know your video games. There's a lot of music, fighting styles and boss stereotypes that come straight from old video games.
I also somehow got comandeered into making a wedding cake this weekend. Although I did want to know how to know how to at some point, this was not how I intended on learning. I made a white wedding cake from a recipe on the internet. Then I filled it with a raspberry filling I made. I am not too great at making frosting smooth, so I decided to cover it with fondant...
Covering a cake with fondant is easier and harder than I thought. I had some trouble leveling the cake, mostly because I couldn't afford a cake leveler. Plus, covering the cake in frosting after cutting it is hard because the frosting doesn't want to stick to all the crumbs.
This is what the cake looked like in the end. It was a pretty small wedding, so luckily I only needed a small cake. 
They didn't really have any colors, so I was trying to make a hot pink and teal. They didn't come out quite right and Rick kept telling me it looked like a baby cake. So, I added ribbon and flowers to make it look more like a wedding cake.
So, the final cake - white cake with raspberry filling, white chocolate buttercream frosting, covered with fondant. Everyone seemed to really like it. I don't know that I'll be making anymore wedding cakes, but it was fun and I definitely learned a lot.
