We made it to 30 weeks. Layla is around 3 pounds and 17 inches long. Her brain is now starting to regulate her body temperature. We are having an ultrasound at the doctors in two weeks. After that we are going to go back to the 4D place and have them do an ultrasound for our family.
Lots of stuff has been going on. My mom came over yesterday and painted the entire baby's room . Right now it is just pink but all of my sister and hopefully my very talented aunts will be coming over next week to paint all of the bugs, flowers and our tree mural.
Also over the weekend I baked cakes for my doctors appointment. I wanted to bring something in as a thank you to all of them. Last time I saw them they wanted me to make a cake wreck. A cake wreck is a professional cake that has gone bad. I bet they didn't know what I was capable of. I made three cakes: lemon cake with lemon curd and berry filling, frosted in Italian butter cream; brown butter cake with carmeled almond butter cream; and butter cake with peanut butter filling and toasted marshmallow frosting. Only one of the three cake made it to the office. Any guesses??? Yep, the peanut butter and marshmallow. So what do you think happened to the other cakes? What could a professionally trained pastry chef with a degree from the La Cordon Blue possibly do to ruin two cakes? Well be prepared to laugh!
After all the cakes were assembled I started frosting a crumb coat on the lemon cake. I was a little put off by how brown the frosting was but I figured I must have added too much vanilla extract. When I put the cake back into the frig to chill I noticed a bowl of white frosting. I thought how strange I don't remember separating the frosting into so many batches?! I was about to mix the two "frostings" together when the cakes gods themselves showed up and said "Don't do it." I put everything back in the frig and started the dishes. Within a few minutes I was yelling profanity and ripping my dish washing gloves off. My mom was yelling from the babies room wanting to know what had happened. I ran down the hall and said, "I frosted my lemon cake with brown butter raw cake batter!" I knew at that moment that I could not in good conscious give this to the unsuspecting doctors office. My mom agreed but was willing to take the food poisoning chance and took the cake home for her and my step dad. I did scrape off as much of the cake batter as I possible could.
The peanut butter cake came out prefect so all that was left was to stack, fill and frost the brown butter cake. I will say that I was quite tired by this point and was ready to be done with my cakes. I made caramel added almonds and then ground them up into a fine powder and added them to the butter cream. As I was stacking and filling, the cakes kept collapsing. I put them in the freezer to harden and then everything seemed to be fine. I arrived at work with the two cakes and was really leery about putting them in the frig. After a few hours the brown butter cake started to melt and fall apart. I decided to take my chance and put them in the frig with all of the mens lunches from the shop. Then as I was leaving work I placed them in the middle of the back seat so they would get the optimum a/c action. As I was driving down Tujunga Cyn and hit a red light having to come to a quick stop. Right as I was pushing on the break I saw my cakes starting to take a nose dive. I reached behind me, like an idiot, to grab the cakes, while slamming on my breaks. The women behind me, sorry to who ever you were, was not happy and I thought she had hit me. I pulled over while trying to think of how I was going to explain this to the insurance company. Luckily she did not hit me but my brown butter cake was upside down under the passenger seat! I saved the peanut butter cake. I was covered in frosting pulled over in a red zone blocking traffic. I decided to just get to the doctors office where I would use my sweater to clean off my hands and steering wheel. I was so embarrassed to walk into the office, but after all they are the ones who ordered the cake wreck!
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