Thursday, July 21, 2011

Cake Celebrities and Me!

So, as the cake shop develops and progresses, I had the awesome opportunity to develop my professional caking skills! The topsy turvy aka madhatter aka whimsical cake has defeated me a few times in the past but no more! I was able to take a fun, energetic, hands on class on this intimidating cake design taught by Sharon Zambito, a cake expert, one of my cake heroes, owner of SugarEd Productions, and a past competitor on TLC's Ultimate Cake Off! The class was hosted by Wendy Baiamonte, another fabulous cake designer, also a TLC's Ultimate Cake Off competitor, at her shop, Sweet Ideas The Cake Shoppe. The following are some shots from the class and the progression of my very first successful topsy turvy cake! This was the most fun and invaluable experience thus far in my caking career!

I am NEVER this neat!

Good student at work :-)

That is the NEATEST carving job I have ever done!


I am so getting a sheeter!

Love me some silver highlighter!


The fun part



Ain't that purty!


Yes, I am a rock star!!! (not really, just a cake nerd)

Sharon on the left, Wendy on the right.
Thanks guys! Will definitely see ya for the next class!

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Cakes

Oh yeah, and still doing cakes, he he:

4th of July

Diego with customer provided figures

M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Poodle with Laptop?

Sure!

Halo gamer

The Saga Continues...

I have been neglecting this blogging thing lately and I tried to tell myself it was because I was just too busy. Well, that's true, but not the entire reason. Isn't this blogging thing a little narcissistic? I mean, really, isn't it a little egocentric to think that there are people out there wanting to read about my day to day life? But, even with this in the back of my mind asking me, "Just who do you think you are?", I find it strangely calming and cathartic to just put all of this out there, so, what the hell.

Since I have last posted, lots of changes has been underway. I think I will focus on the progress of the cake shop today. There have been some major frustrations, like any construction project, but, knock on my head, I mean wood, the little hiccups haven't really slowed things down much. My anxiety level is still through the roof. Ok, I will go ahead and say it, I'm scared shitless! I have never taken a chance in my life! Everything I have ever done has been overly practical and the things I would have loved to do that were a little bit reckless, I have always convinced myself to stop. The only reason this cake shop project is still underway is because of my saint of a husband! He is my own personal support group and fan club! Without him, I would have chickened out a long time ago.

Ok, so enough of the sap! The following is what fear, chance, glorious excitement, paralyzing expectation, and dreams coming to fruition look like so far:

This is my yard before


Sorry Mr. Crepe Myrtle but you were in the way


Foundation, yay!

Hee hee

It begins to look like a room :-)


Front Door

Back Door

No more loading cakes in the rain! Love it!

 To be continued...