Valentine Fun and Late Cake Making

So I'm sure you are all wondering how I fared with passing another Valentine's Day and still single. Remarkably unscathed. Probably because I was too busy worrying about making my cake that night that I didn't have time to feel sad about being alone. Actually, I just don't really care about Valentine's Day anymore. I've never had a valentine, so to speak, so mostly it just passes like any other day other than these days my friends and I get each other little gifts. I wasn't even jealous of Loralee when David had made her dinner and they ate by candlelight in her room. My mind was just elsewhere.

First, I had sort of forgotten about Valentine's Day until a few days before and realized I needed to think of a little gift to give my friends. A great idea occurred to me, but then the next few days I was just so unmotivated to create it that it didn't happen. So Thursday night, right after work I went to Walmart to pick up a few things for home and went by the holiday section seeing if there was anything that would be fun to give. Stuffed Animals? No. Flowers? No. Candy? No. Then there is was a barage of stuff, extremely inexpensive and fun to boot. I gathered all the stuff together and found the rest of my items and then wanted to hurry and get home to put the gifts together and get started on preparing my cake for class the next night. Unfortunately, I picked the slowest line ever. It was short but I think the girl was new and was being incredibly slow. I was most irritated.

So I get home, quickly eat a little and then hurry to put my gifts together. When I walked in my room, there was something different. My room was still incredibly messy as it was that morning when I left it but there was one glaring difference. My bed was made and I hadn't made it. On the bed resting against my pillow was a card attached to a bad of Peanut M&Ms. It was from Loralee, with a lovely note inside. It made me feel very happy. I wanted to make a card to go with my gifts but I just didn't have time. There was a knock on the door and so I went to answer it, but there was no one there. Just a chocolate flower with a note to me, not signed. I asked that I didn't know who it was from (obviously either Carrie or Melanie). Loralee recognized Melanie's handwriting and they had always done the knock and run thing when delivering Valentines. I went back to getting my gifts ready and about ten minutes later there was another knock on the door. We figured it was Melanie again delivering Loralee's present so we looked out the window to see where she had gone and Loralee went outside and spied her hiding behind her car. So she came and we chatted. I gave her her gift and Loralee as well. Here they are:

And this is what I got from my friends:

Here's a closeup of the card Loralee made me. Isn't it adorable?


I was up until 1:00 am preparing my cake for class the next day. The finale cake! So Here is what you have all been waiting for:



I really like it. Poor Julie got to hear my range of likeness going from "Oh that border is so horrible, the fondant isn't done very well" to "Actually it's really quite cute." The cake part is made out of white cake flavored with a little freshly squeezed orange juice and orange zest with a nice rasberry filling. The icing is all fondant so it's edible but you probably wouldn't want to eat it.