Hall: A non-baker's Fair baking escapade

By KALEA HALL

khall@vindy.com

CANFIELD

I am not a baker.

I can cut through the meaning of words, craft sentences and cultivate my own masterpiece of a story.

But cutting cake to craft it into a beautifully shaped anything is not my strong suit.

Knowing this, I still decided to bake a cake to enter into the novelty cake contest for the 168th Canfield Fair.

Why?

Because life is short, baking is fun and believing in yourself to take on different tasks is important for your character.

Also, my boss had an extreme belief in my baking abilities.

Every holiday and on random occasions I would bake cakes and cookies for the newsroom, and they became a hit.

Before I knew it I was talking novelty cakes. I thought, should I make a rooster? How about an entire replica of the Canfield Fairgrounds or something related to The Vindicator?

In the end I decided on a newspaper vending box. Easy, right?

Not a chance.

But I had a plan.

Read just how well(?) Kalea's plan went in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.