Are you asking for a Food Network Challenge????

So me and Dan kind of ♥ the food network. And we ♥ craft times too.

So watching lots of Ace of Cakes and Cake Challenge, I threatened boasted I could do it. Dan totally called my bluff by finding me a fondant recipe at AllRecipes.

But lucky for me it looked pretty simple, so we loaded up with supplies and gave it ago.

We decided to make a Settlers of Catan cake!



Not Shown: Me hand mixing that fondant for an hour. Seriously, it was tough going mixing it with a spoon, but once I got the first bag of icing sugar in, it stopped being so goopy and I started using my hands to kneed it.



We got a plain cake, but Dan wasn't having any of that. She went crazy with the food colouring, good start to the cake.



How can you have tasty craft times without food colouring? Dan is mixing the main part of the fondant to drape over the whole cake.



You have to put a small layer of icing on the cake or the fondant won't stick, and it rolls out way easier if you put it between two sheets of wax paper.



We both picked up a corner, flipped it on and it easily draped around the side. We just had to trim off the extra.



This is me making the hexes that would make up the game board. I got lazy and didn't want to do the whole board, so I made at least one of each type. I was especially proud of how the brick tile turned out.



We found out that working with it this thin and kneeding it enough to get the colours mixed, made it too soft to really hold a shape, so the fondant got to spend a bunch of time in the fridge



Somehow Dan managed to mix black for the robber, but it was super soft, so it sat in the freezer for a while til it cooled down.



Dan starts putting the island tiles onto the ocean.



The island is made.



Dan's awesome robber! and the roads and settlements and dice markers she made too.







Finished Settlers of Caketan.





And it even tasted great! Plus we made way too much fondant, so I might try to so something else with it later.

17 year road to victory

I went out to my parent's place tonight to pick another fan and some coolers. My dad has been babysitting my cousin's kids and hooked up the old Super Nintendo for them to play. While our two best games (Super Mario World and Super Metroid) were missing, the third best game was already in the machine. The Simpsons: Bart's Nightmare. I have never come close to beating this game, it's just that tough. Or it WAS that tough until tonight!







I am the greatest man who has ever lived!

Whedonite

So what with the last two amazing episodes of Dollhouse, Volume 4 of Buffy Season 8 coming out, and a week long Firefly spoof / fan service over at XKCD... it's a good time to be a Joss Whedon fan. And if I can somehow get ahold of a copy of Dr Horrible's Sing Along Blog it'd be even better

Hurrah for summer!

OMG internet! They make Dr Pepper flavoured Mr Freezies. I am gonna eat so fricken many of them

Quote of the day

So, at the Mart there is a little ticker in the breakroom. It has little info like accident free days, stock quotes, who's b-days are happening and an inspirational quote. The last time it was updated with a 90s classic: "Free your mind and the rest will follow"

En Vogue was in my head all day

Here we Remain

Dear The Internet. As far as comic books about zombies go, you can't do better than the Walking Dead. Go read it, cause it's awesome. It would make for a fantastic HBO series. Much like OZ, since somebody dies pretty much every issue. But, here they'd be dying cause of zombies instead of gang violence so it's better.
Man, it = hot outside today. I worked in the garden center trying to get it cleaned up. It is not very clean, but it might at least open tomorrow.
Tomorrow is also cheap prints and free cake at the photolab. Don't let me forget to bring my film in The Internet! Also, don't forget to remind me not to eat the cake, since the lab is pretty much saturated in chemicals that give you cancer when you ingest them.

Patio sets (and how I hate them)

Oh man Blog. Wal-Mart shoppers really ♥ their patio sets. Patio sets really ♥ being heavy. This why I don't ♥ patio sets.

Also, I spent like a good 3 minutes looking up the ascii code for heart. It's just ALT 3!!! That's super simple. It's easier than actually spelling heart for sure. It's not like the Interobang ‽ (ALT 8253) or the not-equal sign ≠ (ALT 8800). Those are 4 numbers long, in addition to turning on the numberpad section of my Lappy's keyboard. I use them but I don't expect others too. but the heart symbol? That's too easy to just let it sit there.