Today has been marked by yoga, powdered sugar and red velvet
batter. It’s 12:16 AM (technically Tuesday) and I am beat!!
Woke up at 9:38 AM, got up, weighed in, measured and then
started yoga X. I weigh 170.4 as of today so at least it’s going down instead
of up this time. I measured and things are not changing. (But, yet my clothes
are loose.)
Yoga was good. By the end, I was very tired and sore.
After my workout, my husband and I got ready to make yet
another run to Hobby Lobby and Michaels for the cakes/cupcakes and a run to
Lowes to get a 5-gallon bucket for the icing. It started pouring down rain as
soon as we were done in HL, so needless to say, we got pretty wet. L
As soon as we got home, I immediately started making the
cream cheese icing, which nearly wore out my precious Kitchen-Aid. Thankfully,
I was able to finish before it got too hot to move anymore. I made 12X the
original recipe which made about 38 cups of frosting. That’s a lot of powdered
sugar, folks! I used 60 cups of it!! I’m pretty sure my kitchen is covered in a
fine layer of powdered sugar but I wasn’t able to clean it up because I was
getting ready for baking the cakes.
Oh yeah, if I didn’t tell you the other day, our oven broke.
(wah wah!) I had to pack all of my ingredients and move it to my mom’s house
because she said I could use her oven. (Thank God for moms!) Upon getting
there, I immediately started on that.
My progress was halted when I ran into another problem. I
tried to make 6X the recipe of red velvet cake but that was entirely too much
for my mixer to handle. (The oil and sugar alone, which were the first things
to go in to the mixer equaled 18 cups together!) Since everything was basically
already mixed and just ready to be combined, I needed a bigger bowel and a way
to mix it. Ended up having to go to Walmart to get another 5-gallon bucket and
a hand mixer. That was fun, let me tell you.
I decided to only do a 3x recipe the next time two more
times so that it would fit in my mixer and I could just combine it with the 6x
recipe in the bucket. (It was nearly full by the time I finished all making all
my batter.) And, it was red, so that made for an even more fun experience ;)
While the cakes were baking, I decided to make my fondant decorations
for the cake and cupcakes.
Thankfully, I was able to sit down during these few
hours with the exception of getting up to get the cakes out of the oven.
I will post pictures later, I’m kind of tired and don’t
really feel like getting up to upload the pictures to my computer.
Sometimes, when you know you are going to have a busy,
exhausting day, it’s best to get your workout done first thing so you don’t
have any excuse not to do it. That’s exactly what I am planning to do once I
wake up tomorrow. Then, it’s back to business.
Alright, I’m tired and done for tonight. I really thought
this was going to be a short post but that I got to talking about cakes and
well, here we are now.
Have a wonderful Tuesday, since I’m already partially in it.
Be blessed!
Signing Out,
It’s Possible!!
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