Whereas most of you have got been planning Easter dinner or an after-dinner egg hunt, I’ve been as much as my elbows and eyeballs in cake combine and frosting.
Whereas most of you have got been trying your Easter greatest, I’m a scorching mess with batter in my hair and icing the place it shouldn’t be. Yearly this occurs, and this 12 months was no exception. This time of 12 months, whereas most consider malt balls and chocolate eggs, all I can take into consideration is cake.
The annual Bunny Cake Bake-off.
Certainly you bear in mind — my household is loopy! We’re scattered all around the nation, however that doesn’t cease us from doing issues collectively. Somebody got here up with the sensible thought that each Easter we’ve got a bunny cake baking contest.
Every submission should begin with one cake combine and two spherical cake pans. Every participant can solely spend $20 to adorn their cake and every thing on the cake have to be edible. Every cake is submitted with a reputation, then all are posted anonymously on-line and social media judges which bunny wins.
It’s by no means mine.
Through the years, my bunny muffins have been lower than stellar. I did a red-eyed Rocky Mountain Excessive Bunny, accented with oregano, and I made a chocolate bunny. I’ve finished a Playboy Bunny, a plain cake known as “No-make up Bunny,” and one 12 months, I drove over my failure of a cake with a garden tire and known as it “Highway-kill Bunny.”
Final 12 months, my cake was known as “Angel Bunny,” full with a golden halo and black licorice glasses that resembled my husband, who ought to have been right here to assist me make the bunny cake. I believed certainly Angel Bunny would garner the sympathy vote and win the Golden Bunny trophy.
The voters didn’t fall for it.
The winner annually is not only a cake; they’re polished artistic endeavors. The icing is easy with no crumbs or cracks. The trophy-winning bunnies are intelligent and catchy and appear to be they had been made professionally. They’re modern and complex, stylish and charismatic.
Then there’s mine.
Annually, I Google bunny muffins hoping to seek out an inspiration and excellent the little expertise I’ve. I watch how-to movies on icing muffins, chopping muffins and piecing muffins collectively. I learn recommendations on making moist muffins, fluffy muffins and muffins that spring again.
Nothing appears to assist.
So, whereas most of you have got been planning your Easter festivities, I’ve been planning for a contest I’ll by no means win. It doesn’t matter how exhausting I strive or how a lot analysis I do, my bunny by no means wins the Golden Trophy. My household is simply too intelligent and cute. They’re doers and achievers, artists and artisans who view their bunny muffins as masterpieces and never one thing to eat.
Then there’s me.
Nonetheless, annually I compete. I make my cake and submit it with a considerate title as a result of I’m an everlasting optimist who carries the silly notion that I can at all times do higher. Every cake I bake will probably be higher than the final one, and annually I’ll earn extra votes! At some point, that Golden Trophy will probably be mine!
Sadly, that received’t be this 12 months.
This 12 months, I ought to in all probability be disqualified. I spent $121.78 to make my unhappy little bunny cake. I purchased three cake mixes, threw out two of them, and was capable of pull it collectively on the third strive. I bought 5 tubs of icing, most of which I ate myself, and pink wax lips I ordered off the web.
Sigh.
The remainder of the cash went to the wine wanted to get me via this bunny bake-off. Don’t decide me, please, until you’re going to slam that “Like” button and make me a winner.
In the meantime, I’ll be proper right here, consuming cake.
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