Sunday, October 5, 2008

Wine, Women, and a Sugarpaste Shoe

How hard can it be to make a shoe? If Jimmy Choo can do it, so can I. So I thought. Now sugarpaste takes a week to dry, I think they really mean a month. No one factors in rain, shower steam, or the occasional chocolate milkshake from McDonald's that your three year old brings home and accidentally spills all over the fruits of your labor. So when I was asked if I would make a cake with a shoe theme for The Near and Far Aide's 'Wine, Women and Shoes' event held at Mitchell's, of course I said yes. It was one day of mixing, stirring, rolling, coloring, cutting and shaping followed by a week of waiting for it to dry (not to mention the three hours it took to carve a stiletto arch out of styrofoam.) The paint made it beautiful, it all seemed to come together. Until it broke in half and my one shoe became two. What was I to do? Take a look at the picture, no one ever knew, until now. P.S. This entire double shoe-box cake was eaten by beautiful women who came out to support a great cause. I guess they figured their figure would understand.