pretty short, so I gave up after taking them out of the oven and called it a night.

     I am off-campus for third period, so I took full advantage of the couple of hours I had on Monday to knock the rest of the cake out, right before the cakes were judged. 

     I stacked the cakes and then I realized that it was nowhere near the height of the reference picture, but there was no turning back at this point, so I just moved on.

     I used chocolate melts in a piping bag to pipe antlers onto a piece of parchment paper. After they hardened some, I decided it would be better to put them on a paper plate because the parchment paper was too flimsy. On my way to put them on a paper plate, one of my backup antlers fell to the ground and broke into what seemed like a thousand pieces.

      After I finished icing the cake, I went in with green frosting around the diameter of the cake. The frosting I got was premade and already had a star tip on the bag, but when I first went to use it, straight liquid came flying out of the bag. At this point I was so done, but I shook the bag and thankfully, got the frosting to work.

      When I first stuck the antlers in the cake, it was perfect, they looked amazing, but then I put the cake top on. The cake top did not even begin to fit, so I shoved my antlers into the cake a little bit more. Still not enough. I do this about 10 times before I just start breaking off parts of the antlers. When I finally got the top to fit, the antlers were barely even sticking out. I had five minutes before I needed to leave for school, so all I could do was accept what a trainwreck the process was and get in the car.

     I’m not even going to lie, ignoring the height of my cake, I was feeling pretty cocky. Anna accidentally bought cookie frosting, so I knew I had her beat, and Virginia told me that her cake was so bad she did not even think it was edible. Let me just tell you what a big fat liar Virginia is. She walks in the classroom with a humongous three-layer cake, which she made completely from scratch. I was humbled very quickly when Virginia got first place.

     I ended up pulling off a finished cake, which got second place for taste, but needless to say, this was a rather stressful experience for me.