The Almost-Super Bowl

I come from a family of die-hard San Francisco 49ers fans.  And it was great to be a 49er fan when I was growing up because they were AWESOME.  The last few years have been a bit more of a challenge.  It has been harder to find games on TV and when they were on, it was sometimes hard to watch.  But this season was fun again!  They were playing great and as the playoffs progressed we will filled with anticipation that there might even be a Superbowl in the future.  But just in case there wasn't, we decided to have a full-blown party for the NFC championship game instead.  Since the 49ers were playing in that. 

My sister Chrystie arranged for us all to come up to her house and enjoy the game.  Matt and I were assigned to bring a dessert.  We decided to go all out and made this cake.

It was our first time playing with fondant and it was pretty fun.  We had some extra cake that we cut off the large cake to try and make it sit flat and we made little football cake balls out of them. I had one and it was a crazy sugar rush.  Chrystie's kids loved them and I am pretty sure they contributed to some of the extra energy that was moving around the room as the adults tried to watch the football game.

The game didn't end the way we all had hoped, but the party was fun.