Paint and Pixels

Cake Walk

Basically the ONLY volunteering I do for Rocket's school the entire year is for the fall festival. I decorate the door (as seen below), and I donate a few cakes for the cake walk. Before today, I got much joy out of creating the most delightful cakes I possibly could. Last year I created a pirate ducky cake and a spider cake (with eight eyes), but I didn't post a picture of them because I didn't blog so much back then. This year I made four fondant covered cakes. I discovered how fun and easy fondant is to work with through Holly, who has a link to the recipe on her blog. It is like playing with playdough- great fun. I liked imagining children drooling over my cakes and then after being chosen as the winning number, anxiously selecting the cake I made, out of all the cakes, and then glowing as they carry it home. But after actually attending the fall festival cake walk, I had a change of heart, and I don't know if I will participate in the cake donation next year... well, if I do, I will just make ugly cakes- not pretty ones. Maybe I will make a "pile of poop" cake. Or maybe I will intentionally drop the cake on the ground before submitting it. Basically 25 children surrender THREE tickets (which cost 33.33333 cents each) to participate in the cake walk. Then ONE child's number is called, at which time, they get to gloat in front of the other 24 children as they go pick out the cake of their choice. The other 24 children get a practically petrified peice of tootsie roll on their way out of the room. That's it. I felt like kicking the cake out of the one child's hands and redistributing the cake to other more pathetic children... like the cake robin hood... or the cake Obama... or something. Anyhow, I decided that spending hours creating clever and beautiful cakes is not the most worthy cause. Unfortunately, this might mean I have to volunteer at the school in some other way, like helping the children read or something miserable like that.