A big challenge is forecoming...

Tonight, I had a date with my family. As normal, we decided the restaurant at the last minute, a steakhouse restaurant called THE KEG. It was the restaurant's policy that no reservations are accepted on Friday and Saturday. Some of us got there at 7:45 p.m. They were told that our table will be ready for us in 1.5 hours. No kidding, 1.5 hours wait for a table (that means we can have 2 meals time for 1 meal, 2 for 1). Anyhow, since it was Saturday, everywhere was also very busy, we ended up waiting....

The dinner was pretty good, red wine, filet mignon, mushrooms, mashpotatos, chololate pyramid, Italian smooth dessert, etc...

Oh, I forgot to say the purpose of tonight's dinner. It was for my sister's new job working at IXX in May.

As we were enjoying our dinner, we talked about my niece's birthday party coming this Saturday. Her parents are going to invite over 30 people to the party. My sister did mention to me that I could bake a birthday cake for my niece. At that time, I thought she was just kidding. Surprisingly, she was serious.

So my big challenge is to make an ever first birthday cake for a party of 30 people. I really have no confidence on it. You know, I am a very very beginner baker. Yes, I am taking dessert class and made various pastries and desserts. But classroom is totally different from home. I have no equipments that cost several bucks nor commercial ingredients that make magical tricks in the final products. I have also tried at home but failed.

This time I can't take a risk of failure, success is the only way out. Sigh....only a week of time left. Can I do it? We'll see.