By Nicole

In honor of my most pinned pin , and because I promised to some time ago .  Yeah, photo albums and race recaps aren't the only things I flake on. Here is a step by step post about how I made my first monster truck cake. When my nephew turned three, I promised I would make his cake.  His instructions were to build a monster truck with flames that was running over spiders and shooting webs.  Tall order! I talked him down a little, but I decided to go all out and try to build this truck.  I was currently watching Ace of Cakes a lot back then, so rice krispies had become my new best cake tool. So I carved a rice krispie truck from a giant hunk of rice krispies and put it in the fridge to harden up again.  It was almost exactly the size of a loaf of bread.  In fact, I think I had smooshed two bread pan sized rice krispies together and then carved from there.   Once I was sure the truck was solid, I started frosting it.  I was tir...

Grrrr.  I love my new KitchenAid.  I hate that this frosting refuses to thicken. Why, oh why do I experiment on the night of the cake assembling? So. This is my post.  It's all I've got.

This is just the start. Roses tomorrow!

It's Monday, and my brain is set on auto-meal plan.  But then I realized that I lied about sharing a picture of my nephew's cake.  And I had such a success cooking tonight, I wanted to share all of my messy cooking pictures.  So this is a cluster post.  I can't help it. To begin, two days late...  Duhn, duhn, duhn, duuuuuuuuhhhh. The Monster Truck Cake!! I have pictures for a how-I-made-that-craziness post, but I am not even going to promise or give a timeline on that.  Just be pleasantly surprised. Next, our meal plan for the week is a bit thrown off, because we have started the Daniel Fast.   Every year, before the Men's Conference at our church, leaders and their wives fast.  I was really ticked off about that the first year, and I didn't go into it as positive and supportive as I should have been.  My coffee withdrawals were almost as bad as withdrawals anyone with a drug or alcohol addiction would have.  I. Was. ...