Play-Doh or Fondant

Play-Doh™ wasn’t on her Christmas list.

Fondant was.

Or as she says “Fon-daunt”

A few too many episodes of Cake Boss has got Scary Baby wanting to bake and more importantly, wanting to decorate baked goods.

Finally, this weekend I told her we could make cupcakes so she could use her Fondaunt.

Even though I knew it wouldn’t taste good. And she insisted it would.

We whipped up a batch of lemon cupcakes. High marks for adding lemon jello to your lemon cake mix to make it more lemon-y. I’m sure lemon-y is a word. Warm cupcakes got an A+

Next we discover we don’t have enough powdered sugar to make buttercream frosting. Yeah, that’s me – the mom who doesn’t embrace projects for this very reason. We’re always missing some key ingredient or craft item and the project takes double the time which does not equal double the fun.

After a run to the store, I will admit that I made the best buttercream frosting ever. Recipe was on Pioneer Woman {where else?} and is actually what Bakerella uses with some of her beautiful creations. I did add a little less than a teaspoon of lemon flavoring to the teaspoon of vanilla flavoring which made it light and lemon-y and extra delicious. Scary Baby and PhilBillPaul agreed.

Sorry, no pictures of the frosting.

She then took over and embraced the final details of her fondant project.

Not too bad for her first try.

But I did catch her hiding the fondant in her napkin to throw away.

Ahem…doesn’t taste so good…does it?

I recommend sticking with Play-Doh. Why ruin good food?