{"id":14713,"date":"2012-05-09T00:05:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T07:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=14713"},"modified":"2012-05-09T00:05:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T07:05:40","slug":"icing-on-the-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/14713","title":{"rendered":"Icing on the Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tWondering who I am? I\u2019m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my<\/span> former life<\/a> \u2026<\/p>\n

Some badges are just plain tasty. Homemade potato chips, organic grocery shopping …<\/p>\n

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Did someone say \u201cicing on the cake?\u201d <\/a>Count me in, and quickly!<\/p>\n

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Decorating cakes just happens to be my specialty; after all, I have Seasons One and Two of Ace of Cakes on dvd, and I\u2019m not ashamed to say I have a cake decorating game loaded on my Blackberry. So, when it came to this badge, chickies, let\u2019s just say …<\/p>\n

…\u00a0I came to this badge.<\/p>\n

I even signed up for a class through my local community education classes and it really felt like I was back in school. That has its ups and downs; for example, I was hoping to never have to walk by the gym again because of my Post Traumatic Stress Disorder due to Freshman Basketball, but I fondly got to hug my old locker. Lots of memories there\u2026and lots of photos of Ken cut out in the shape of hearts. There may or may not have been a Vanilla Ice poster taped up inside for a while, too. Don\u2019t judge. Midge was obsessed with Milli Vanilli so I think we know who had the superior music taste. Blame it on the rain, Midge, blame it on the rain.<\/p>\n

I was expecting our instructor to be a Paula Deen lookalike, but he turned out to be more of a Gordon Ramsey, disguised as a community education teacher. He was passionate about cakes, I\u2019ll tell you that much. He nearly had a coronary when someone innocently brought in icing in a tube, and when my frosting roses weren\u2019t going so well, I pretty much saw my whole life flash before my eyes. He kept shouting things like,<\/p>\n

Knead the fondant! <\/em>\u00a0Isn\u2019t fondant something to dunk your pretzels and cheesecake wedges into?<\/p>\n

Fleur de leis! Your fleur de leis\u2019 make me want to kill myself! <\/em>\u00a0This from a man whose apron looked like something that belonged to a mad scientist?<\/p>\n

Ganache is to be treated with the respect dark chocolate deserves! <\/em>Come to Mama, my sweet baby ganache, come to Mama\u2026<\/p>\n

Do not confuse Flower Nails with Decorating Nozzles? <\/em>Who put who in the what now?<\/p>\n

Stop eating the marzipan! <\/em>Well, excuuuuuuuuuuuse me.<\/p>\n

Eventually, we made it through our two week class and I learned to love Mr. Cake Nazi. He really just wanted the best for us (and the best basket weave and Corneille Lace). At the end, I had a gorgeous (if slightly lopsided and droopy) cake, a new appreciation for Dotted Swiss, and an extra three pounds around my love handle.<\/p>\n

You know what they say about muffin tops, ladies. It\u2019s the best part of the muffin.<\/p>\n

Er, cake.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wondering who I am? I\u2019m Merit Badge Awardee Jane (MBA Jane for short). In my former life \u2026 Some badges are just plain tasty. Homemade potato chips, organic grocery shopping … Did someone say \u201cicing on the cake?\u201d Count me … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[548,566,574],"class_list":["post-14713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gladsome_sisters","tag-maryjanesfarm-farmgirl-sisterhood","tag-mba-jane","tag-merit-badge-awardees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}