A baking project of epic proportions

Today is the last day of the year 2009.  Today also marks the day that my friend and I will begin a baking project of proportions that as of yet we have not even hoped to attain.  We are baking a multi-layer stacked cake with incredible decoration.  I'm not entirely convinced our baking skills are up to the task, but even if they aren't, the attempt will be an excellent way to ring in the new year.  Actually, I'm hoping that this will be the year that I learn to cook for real.  Last night I bought the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, and I have been poring over it all morning, making a list of all the things I want to try.  I'm up to page 331, and so far my list is already a page long.  At least I won't get bored.  I think that this endeavor is somewhat similar to the one taken by Julie Powell in Julie and Julia, except I will most definitely not be cooking my way through the cookbook in a year.  Mostly because I want to avoid the liver recipes at all costs, as well as the fish and seafood section, because I really don't like fish.  Maybe one day I will try to regain an appetite for it, but I think fish sticks have decidedly turned me against anything remotely relating to that particular genre of food.

Anyway, in regard to the cake project, we intend to take all sorts of pictures and then create a photo album - whether in print or online I'm not sure.  But perhaps one day, when we open a bakery after we retire from the rest of the working world, we will be able to display this album somewhere and say to ourselves, "Good heavens!  We seem to have come a long way from there!"