Field Trip

OCEANSIDE: MPA is on the road this week. After dropping of our latest cake this morning, we headed south and west, destination Gearhart, Oregon.

Why Gearhart? Well, because there's a house with our name on it there, literally.

The beachfront house was built in , for Christian's grandpa, a dentist in Lake Oswego, Oregon, at the time.

Christian's dad and aunt spent many happy times at the house as kids. A few years ago, the house came up for sale, and Christian's aunt and her husband bought the place, so now it's back in the family.

It's a really solid place, three stories with a 180 degree view of the ocean.  We ventured shoreside right at sunset. We had to wade through lots of grass, avoid elk droppings, and endure some wind and rain, but it was worth it. It has been too long since we've seen an ocean.

Hopefully tomorrow it will be nicer, but even if it's not, it's nice to have a change of venue for a few days.

SPECIAL DELIVERY: Before we left home this morning, we had a cake to drop off at Birthday Dreams. 

The birthday girl in a local homeless shelter wanted a rainbow theme. After doing the Google and getting some ideas, we decided to go with a double barrel (stacked) cake. We needed it to be tall so we could get six good sized stripes on it. We measured it and make marks where the color bands would go.

After we piped the colors on, Annabelle spun the cake board while I used a tool to smoosh the lines flat.

After the first pass, we had to do some touch ups. 

The stuff we scraped off kind of looks like an explosion at a Play-Doh factory.

The cake filling featured rainbow sprinkles, of course. 

Once the stripes were done, it was time to pipe a big 'cloud' on top.

The homemade marshmallow icing we made tasted really good and was plenty puffy!

The glittery star candles in rainbow colors seemed like the perfect touch atop the cake.  We hope she liked it! 

We hope she liked her cake (name on cake board is obscured for anonymity).