{"id":410,"date":"2018-11-02T15:51:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T22:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ticklebellyhillbakers.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2018-11-03T11:23:43","modified_gmt":"2018-11-03T18:23:43","slug":"lush-spa-themed-extravaganza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ticklebellyhillbakers.com\/?p=410","title":{"rendered":"Lush + Spa Themed Extravaganza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Despite my horrible drawing skills, here’s what I envisioned for her cake. \u00a0The peanut -shaped thing is supposed to be a bathtub.*<\/p>\n

* proper perspective (of anything!) not included\u00a0\ud83d\ude2c<\/p>\n

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Big shoutout to my 11-yr old daughter for making all the Lush bath bombs. \u00a0She chose a bunch from the Lush website then made teeny tiny replicas! They looked exactly like the real thing.<\/p>\n

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Because I wanted the spa girl to be in a bubble bath, I needed to make arms and legs. \u00a0But I had to make and remake her hands and feet many, many times because I just couldn’t get them quite right.<\/p>\n

Turns out I don’t \u00a0have quite the right tools (or small enough fingers) to make delicate appendages, so hats off to the experts.<\/p>\n

As a result, my bathing beauty looked a bit man-ish for a 14-year old girl, but it’s okay…the intention was in the right place. Plus, bath bubbles.<\/p>\n

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Then I painted her fingernails and toenails to make it look more realistic (and if I’m being honest, less man-ish). \u00a0I needed magnifying glasses for that. \u00a0And a toothpick!<\/p>\n

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And now the cakes. I baked three chocolate cakes from Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa Parties cookbook<\/a>\u00a0(actually baked these the night before), but the morning of the party, I stacked them with chocolate ganache in between.<\/p>\n

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Then added the final crumb layer before layering over the fondant…<\/p>\n

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The fondant layer…<\/p>\n

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Here I am piping the bath mat….<\/p>\n

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Here’s the first look at the finished product. \u00a0I wish I had taken individual pictures of all of the things on the cake, but I didn’t.<\/p>\n

Here’s a list of what was on it:<\/p>\n