bad to the bone

Q's cake for this year was my most ambitious yet. with many things, i have lofty visions that i can just not execute on. i was worried that this would be one of them, based on the complexity. it involved a car-shaped cake, stacked on a small sheet cake to make it taller like a truck, plus four mini bundt tires and crumbled brownies for dirt. it started off bad. the first attempt at the car shape didn't even make it out of the pan (apparently pam is not sufficient for greasing up such an intricate pan) and necessitated a 2:30 a.m. run to the store for more cake mix and crisco. but once the pan was properly greased and floured we were good to go (and quite sleepy.) - but considering the late night, the early struggles, and my lack of any actual cake decorating tools/skills, i think it turned out ok! Q knew right what it was. he told me it was "awesome" and that's all that matters!