After learning to make fondant from marshmallows and powdered sugar, my cake designs for special occasions became more elaborate. Soon I began to receive requests for my cakes from friends and family.
“I want a monster truck,” one friend announced. This would be a paid commission, so it had to be perfect.
I had no idea how I would pull this off, yet I had complete confidence in myself to figure it out as I went along.
My unshakable confidence was a far cry from all I’d been panicking about in the other areas of my life. I had just quit my job to write and live as a freelance artist. Money wasn’t coming in as steadily as I’d imagined.
With no plan for this truck, I worked one detail at a time, molding pieces of Rice Krispies treats,
wrapping them in fondant, and fitting them together with skewers.
Little by little, my monster-truck cake was coming to life as I finished the sculpture and decorated the cake where it would sit. I loved it!
Karen, I thought to myself, looking at the finished product on my kitchen table, you need
to stop panicking about the future. No, I didn’t have a concrete plan or any guarantees for success, but I did know that I would figure it out as I went along, and I could trust in the call God had on my life to be the mother and artist He made me to be.
