Sunday, November 17, 2024
The Great Oak Park Bake Off
My sister's family enjoys watching Nailed It!, the show in which ordinary people fail at complex baking tasks. They decided they wanted to do their own personal live version. Though I've only seen the show in their presence while vigorously texting or playing Candy Crush on my phone, I agreed to join. The results were predictable yet no less glamorous.
This is what we were going for. To be clear, I'm not sure how much I think edible art contributes to society in the first place, but at least it's not another season of And Just Like That.
The children very much enjoyed their time playing with fondant. Also, saying fondant. It doesn't taste like much, but it's decent as construction material.
I helped to fashion these eyes, which were unfairly criticized as potentially too large. I say it's just the cakes that got small.
Here is the finished product, which looks to be melting before you. You cannot see quite as well that the back half is literally starting to fall off. Let's just brand that as a "self serving" cake.
Here it is post collapse. Definitely giving a Thanksgiving massacre vibe.
Still, it was tasty. I would say the mission was accomplished. And, I did not have to take any home with me, so all is well.
