Fondant Carrot Cake - Shooting Star

A practice cake for the upcoming competition! It's my first time working with fondant and it really is such a whole new experience... The range of wonders that can be done, to just have a feel of it is already so intimidating. But it got me thinking, a lot.

It was meant as just a little practice for the real deal, but seeing that my classmate was having her birthday, I figured I'll dedicate this cake to her. Oh boy, I really prayed it will work. I thought it could be much much better, but hey, my awesome classmates liked it! So, thank you all for the smiles! In any case though, I'm completely changing my idea now... Let's hope it works!

Due to limited artistic ability, my shooting star didn't really look like one. I've been thinking about shooting stars and wishes. Cake decorating got me thinking about what I really wanted to do with my life. And I think, I'm going to set up my own business in future, a specialty cake shop. Selling designer cakes. But the future feels like rain on a sunny day, confusing, conflicting and impossibly difficult to predict.

It's not an impulsive thought, I have been thinking about what brings me joy, what makes the heart sing. And the answer has always been so evident, so certain. How can I deviate from my calling? Which brings me to shooting stars.

I saw a shooting star couple of weeks back. It felt like magic, like how fondant feels like magic. I'll always remember how I made a wish, a wish that was for someone else. Maybe someday you'll understand too, that everything in life happens for a reason. Sometimes we fall, but each fall gives us a chance to stand up. Sometimes we cry, but just so that we know how to smile. Sometimes our hearts break, but each time it heals, it becomes stronger. So, I don't need a wish, not because I have everything I want, but simply because I want to taste the sweet and sour of life. I'll continue the fight, the fight for a dream. We are all stronger than we think we are, so don't ever regret, just move along.

One life, live it. Here's the song that started it all.

B.o.b ft Hayley Williams - Airplanes
Can we pretend that airplanes

In the night sky

Are like shooting stars

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)

Can we pretend that airplanes

In the night sky

Are like shooting stars

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)

Yeah

I could use a dream or a genie or a wish

To go back to a place much simpler than this

Cause after all the partyin' and smashin' and crashin'

And all the glitz and the glam and the fashion

And all the pandemonium and all the madness

There comes a time where you fade to the blackness

And when you're staring at that phone in your lap

And you hoping but them people never call you back

But that's just how the story unfolds

You get another hand soon after you fold

And when your plans unravel

And they sayin' what would you wish for

If you had one chance

So airplane airplane sorry I'm late

I'm on my way so don't close that gate

If I don't make that then I'll switch my flight

And I'll be right back at it by the end of the night

Can we pretend that airplanesIn the night sky

Are like shooting stars

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)

Can we pretend that airplanesIn the night sky

Are like shooting stars

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)

Somebody take me back to the days

Before this was a job, before I got paid

Before it ever mattered what I had in my bank

Yeah back when I was tryin' to get into the subway

And back when I was rappin' for the hell of it

But now a days we rappin' to stay relevant

I'm guessin that if we can make some wishes outta airplanes

Then maybe yo maybe I'll go back to the days

Before the politics that we call the rap game

And back when ain't nobody listened to my mix tape

And back before I tried to cover up my slang

But this is for the Cada, what's up Bobby Ray

So can I get a wish to end the politics

And get back to the music that started this sh-t

So here I stand and then again I say

I'm hopin' we can make some wishes outta airplanes

Can we pretend that airplanes

In the night sky

Are like shooting stars

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)

Can we pretend that airplanes

In the night sky

Are like shooting stars

I could really use a wish right now (wish right now, wish right now)