STAR WARS/ARCHETYPAL HERO PARTY

Naturally, I had to put this on my Snapchat story.

Last night, I finished my wonderful piece of pastry art, titled Resist(ance) the Temptation, for the Star Wars party at exactly 12:16 am (I guess that makes it this morning. Right?). Since I started around 9:50pm, that means it took about two and a half hours, which isn't bad for the cake-sterpiece it was. But why did I not start until 9:50? I'm not really sure. Let's see... Yesterday after school, instead of doing homework and being the industrious student I'm supposed to be, I decided to do some conditioning with Jenny. We did 2 sets of 5 stairs at the football stadium with some sprints and ab training in between. We finished at 3:45pm. After that, she went home and I went to buy nachos to eat at Antonia's tennis match vs Ursuline Academy, which I stayed at until 5:15pm or so... I think. After that I don't really know what happened, but I know that somewhere between 5:15pm and 9:50pm, I bought cake batter, icing, and sprinkles, and didn't do homework. So there's that.

Notice the icing on the side falling off the cake.

My cake was pretty awesome, if I haven't made that clear already. Maybe I'm biased. Maybe cake is just always awesome. I think the latter. Anywho, the yummy fluffiness that goes on the inside of the cake was Pillsbury Super Moist French Vanilla mix. Yes, I admit it, I used cake mix. I didn't want to risk accidentally poisoning my Lit class on the 8th day of school. That would not be the way to make a good first impression. After baking it for half an hour, I let it cool and cut out two circles from the cake. I trimmed off some excess, then iced it. I used Pillsbury Funfetti Icing in Vibrant Red. I promise this post is not sponsored by Pillsbury... It's just what Walmart had. Anywho, the icing was a struggle because the cake was so yummy and fluffy. Notice that I bought the "Super Moist" mix. That was poor judgement on my part, since the icing would tear the cake everywhere I put it. The yumminess was a problem because of the amount of self control it took to not eat the entire thing. Hence the name Resist(ance) the Temptation.

After battling the crumbling conundrum, I got to the decorating part. Originally, I was going to cut the actual cake in the shape of the Resistance logo, but after seeing the lack of structural integrity in the cake, I opted for plan B. Plan B did not exist until this point. By a happy accident, I bought red sprinkles to decorate the top of the Resistance-logo-shaped cake. Since the cake was no longer Resistance-logo-shaped, I decided to use the glitter and glue technique to making shapes in preschool and apply it to cake and icing. I cut the shape of the Resistance logo out of a sheet of wax paper, and put the larger sheet with the logo-shaped hole in it on the top of the cake. Then I went to town and put sprinkles everywhere on that sheet and on the icing that showed through the cutout. I blew off the excess sprinkles and removed the wax paper. Ta-da! A Resistance Cake is born.

You can see my uncostumed right arm in the bottom left corner enjoying cake.

At that point I was honestly dead tired and had a fair amount of AP Bio homework left, so I totally forgot about wearing a costume... Whoops. Oh well, I still got to eat cake so life is good.