Remember when it was yesterday and I was all like "I don't know if I want a party?"
Well, that lasted about thirty minutes after I posted it.
Why shouldn't I have a party? Most of our friends have moved away but we don't need a big party to have fun. Besides, since hubs and I share a birthday, we only get one day instead of two a year that we have a legit excuse to celebrate getting old (
thanks little brother - when you turn 30 I am going to send you a pair of bifocals and some suspenders). I am only 27, hubs is 29 (
already dreading his mid-life, LOL) and our pup Marlow said he wanted to play with new friends.
I think people may like our pup more than us. LOL, not really (
I hope).
Thanks to Pinterest I went from "I don't want a party" to "I have the decorations and menu planned out" in about ten minutes.
We are going to keep it simple:
-
Guacamole Dip-
Spinach Artichoke Dip- Tortilla Chips for the dip (hubs requested we mix both white and yellow chips)
-
Maija's Mojitos Oh, and cake.
But not just any cake. You see- I have been watching Cake Boss with the hubs lately.... and I am now delusional enough to think that I can make an amazing and beautiful, gluten free cake...with two levels... that is decorated .... with fondant... that I am making myself.
Yeah- I am completely off my freaking rocker. But here is the game plan:
- make an Orange Pound Cake with
this recipe and just sub gluten free all-purpose flour instead of the regular all-purpose flour to make it gluten free
- Use Betty Crocker Lemon frosting as filling between the layers (I wanted to make my own darn lemon filling but hubs really wanted the pre-made stuff)
- Use
this recipe for the fondant
And the most important step- wine on hand for when this crazy idea backfires, blows up in my face, and people show up to our party with raw cake batter dripping off the ceiling and Marlow jacked up on the fondant that splattered all over the floor.
In order to maintain some of our sanity
(LOL, JK- there is none of that in our household!!!) we are keeping the decorations uber simple with some
tissue paper pom-poms that we (read: the hubs) will hang from the ceiling. Hey, if Martha Stewart can do it so can I.
And if all else fails, we have some Halloween and Xmas decorations we can throw up. Hey, I will probably be drunk off wine because of the cake anyhow so what will I care?
This won't be the healthiest birthday, but at least I will be making most of the stuff. With the exception of the icing- hubby really, really loves the Betty Crocker(
what a home-wrecker)- and the marshmallows for the fondant the ingredients will largely be natural. And we need this. Both of us are feeling the stress from the trip still.
Both of us trying to find jobs across the country is just not what I would call a fun time.
Things I am happy about:
- testing out the cake and fondant recipe tonight (we will see how this goes)
- coffee, coffee, coffee
- Pinterest
- hubs, pups, friends, and family
- the internet (how did people find out about jobs in other states prior to the internet?)
- crocheting/knitting
- wine
Oh yeah- could someone recommend a good white rum for mojitos?
XOXOXO
