So much competition, not enough money

Today we had a baked goods auction fundraiser at our church. I made a cake for it.
Yesterday was Earth Day, and even though we are not "environmentalists" we did make an Earth Day cake. Kaytlin was making it for a friend of hers because they always eat cake on Earth Day, just because. Her friend ended up stuck in another town, so we went ahead and just did the cake for us. It is chocolate with gummy worms in it, you know, for the dirt and worms in the earth. It was ugly, but fun. Devon sat and critiqued my lack of perfection on what continent was which shape. If he is so smart, he better start bring home better grades.

This is the cake I made for the auction. I love the cake. It is so pretty, and so fancy, but it is SO easy to make. But for me, it has a story.
When I was pregnant with Trinity I was sure she was a boy. God had told us we would have a son, Samuel, and we just assumed it would be our first reversal child. (never assume) So when I kept saying "he" my doctor called me on how I was so sure. I said I was so sure that if I was wrong I would make all the birthday cakes for his family that year. His birthday was the next month, so he ran out of the room and grabbed the ultrasound machine. And he proved me wrong. So he ordered a chocolate cake with chocolate icing. I can't do plain. It isn't in me. So I found this Chocolate Explosion cake in the Wilton cake book and made it for him. It has almost been 5 years and he mentioned the cake when I was in a couple weeks ago, lol.
Pastor Chad was so disappointed not to win this one today. Most people said they couldn't eat it because it was so pretty, and others said it just didn't look real. But Chad said he'd have no problem eating every bite. He's turning 30 soon, so he'll get his cake.


This pie is one of the two things we won at the auction. It is so HUGE! I didn't know pies came in bigger sizes than normal, but it works for us. I put a knife on the pie to show how big it is. That is a normal size steak knife.

I was bidding on (3) a pecan cream pie. I have never heard of that, but I had to have it. Had to. But so did several people. I didn't bid on one of them because one guy started the bid at $20. But when the other two reached $20 I went after Todd's pie. And I did it towards the end of bidding, and he was nowhere in sight. I walked off to check on kids. Big mistake. Todd somehow managed to escape his meeting to check on his bid and bid $25 and I had no idea, so I thought I had it.
Now I have to find a recipe. It looked to-die-for good.


If only we had more money left to have bid higher. Can you believe the support we got? That is one table on the left and 5 tables on the right side! We had 60 desserts to bid on! I can't wait to find out how much money we raised for the youth to go on their trip this summer.