15 hours in the kitchen!

My sweet SIL, Marie, joined me on Friday for 15 hours of baking and decorating! She helped me mix the colors into the fondant, and she made all of the leaves. I used the homemade fondant recipe from Bake at 350 here.

I had baked and frozen one batch of cookies the weekend before to give the recipe a try. I mixed the dough for 2 more batches midweek, and Marie rolled, cut out and baked them while I worked on the cake. I used the Vanilla Almond Sugar Cookies recipe from Bake at 350 here.

I am so thankful for her help. We make a good team!

This was my first attempt at making a stacked cake without columns. I had never driven a dowel through layers to stabilize them, but it worked like a charm!

This "canelli lace" is pretty easy to do, but it sure made my hand tired! My grandma likes pink, so of course, her cake had to be pink.

This was our first attempt at using royal icing for outlining and flooding cookies.
Finally, around midnight, we had flooded the last cookie and straightened up the kitchen.
The cake made the 1 hour trip to the party site! I used the recipe for the "Mount Vernon Cake" from The Cake Mix Doctor. The cake is frosted with buttercream frosting and the flowers and leaves are marshmallow fondant.
The cookies are all arranged on the plates.
All our hard work on display! I also made the "Happy Birthday" banner-another first. Party photos to come later!

Y'all come back,

Lorilee