Decorating Cakes
Sometimes I find myself thinking of ridiculous things and taking them to the extreme. For example, one time I proposed that we build a pipeline from the moon to Earth and harvest Moon Oil. The pipeline would be connected to the poles of each body so as not to tangle, and it would have parts that could stretch and shrink as the two got closer or more distant from one another. This led me to suggest natural gas expeditions to Jupiter, complete with ships designed to compress natural gas and shuttle it back to Earth.
Some guy got angry at me because in reality, these are bad ideas, but I was just having fun.
Every so often, I go back to my idea for spray peanut butter, and usually people will tell me that I’m ridiculous. [But it worked for margarine!]
Yesterday I was at Wal-Mart looking for a notebook (actually two Wal-Marts but both were out of stock…) and while Linda bought some fabric, I found myself in the “cake decorating” section of the store. Imagine my shock to learn that there was a “cake decorating” section of the store!
I spent time reading the instructions on the back of the decorating bags and on the couplers and on the various metal tips, and I realized, “Hey, I could do this!” and without buying the bags too! The couplers were one dollar each or four for two dollars, and the tips were something like four for a dollar fifty. I could just use regular plastic bags, because as far as I could tell, that’s what the “gourmet decorating bags” were anyway. I looked at the pictures on the products, and started to get really excited about cake decorating.
However, I quickly realized what a ridiculous plan this was. For whom would I decorate all these cakes? And where would I get the cakes anyway? I don’t want to bake a lot of cakes, I just want to decorate them. And further, I have no desire to eat a bunch of cakes. Nor do I know a lot of people that would want to eat more than, say, one cake per week.
So I put the cake decorating accessories back and moved along. But I bet I could be a great cake decorator…
Remember when we used to fantasize about those cakes in my cake decorating book?
Do I? The bell is indelibly printed in my mind.
Good. I’m still planning on baking your wedding cake, by the way.
Great. Is your mom still down for making a tallit?
I’ll ask.
good, so I’m not the only one who noticed this. But, honestly, I’m not sure why the idea of spray peanut butter is that unreasonable (besides the fact that you couldn’t do it with chunky which is my favorite).
I thought you were one of the ones who thought that spray peanut butter is a bad idea.