Ombre Coral Wedding Cake

White Cake, fudge filling, Butter cream icing, ombre coral.

 The small one up top was the little four inch cake I gave them as a gift for their honey moon.

The bride wanted chrysanthemums. So we gave them to her. Again my sister-in-law is amazing and knows how to work well with others.

 The small silver butterfly is my signature touch. All cakes have them. Well, they all well from here on out. The carrot cake didn't get one.

Wedding Cake

 Wedding cakes, one of my first and it will never be one of my lasts.

 Gum paste lilies.

 Nine flowers, four tiers of carrot cake with oven roasted pecans. The top two tiers had no pecans for those that had allergies.

 The flowers were dusted with petal dust and luster dust. My assistant/ sister-in-law is truly an artistic genius! She did a stunning job and dusting the flowers.

 Four days of long hard work later we had a stunning cake for my friend.

 It was a hit. The guests enjoyed it and so did the bride and the groom. As a gift from the bakery to the happy couple I make them a separate tier for the couple to enjoy on their honeymoon.

Thoughtful Thrusday

 Now, don't get me wrong. I LOVE to get creative with cakes, I love to run wild with someone's idea and give them a fun cake. But to come into an order like this just makes me laugh at how silly and 'thoughtful' people can be at times. Now, I say thoughtful this way because my dear friend that took this order set this order up to make sure I got it and no one else.

 See, she knew what she was doing and did it right.

I wish I remembered to take a picture of the cake out of it's box. Since I didn't though this is the best I've got. It was a lot of fun none the less to make this cake.

Happy Birthday Jillie. I hope you enjoyed the cake as much as I liked making it.

Mistake Monday

 Big mistake to think that writing on a cake is like writing on paper. Trust me when I say, "I was out of my MIND to think that."

 I was told that after writing on the first twenty or so cakes it would get easier. HA! That still gives me a laugh. I've written on well over two hundred cakes and I still get it wrong at times.

 Full sheets are truly the hardest though. These size cakes feed up to a hundred people. These are really big cakes. Which means you have a lot of writing and work to do to fill it.

 Some cakes like this air sprayed cake looked beautiful without any writing on it. It truly looked beautiful. Then I wrote on it and it turned into this.

It also would be wise to make sure you read the name right before you spell it out on the cake. Just for the soul fact... that not everyone is willing or as patient to wait for you to fix these little goof ups.

 Flowers have been the easiest thing thankfully. 

That writing thing though... was truly the devil to work with.

Flower Fridays

 Clearly when someone works with cakes, and a pastry case you will make flowers, roses, pansy's, daisys, mums, sweet pea flowers, name it we try to make it out of icing. After learning basics for two weeks I was pulled aside to learn roses. I could have cried I was so happy. The rose above this was my teachers. The rest below are mine.

 This was my first rose I had ever made out of whipped icing. It was hard, but oh so much fun. Needless to say after my first rose I felt like I could take on the world.

 Which isn't true. You can't take on the world by just making roses out of whipped icing. Though you can truly try.

Or instead of trying just eat the delicious whipped rose and let the world go on without you for a few minutes. It's up to you really.

Things to learn Thursday

 Things to learn when decorating cakes:
1.) Don't air spray unless you know what you're doing. (In my case I didn't.)

 2.) Don't take a picture of the side of the cake that is slanted. (beginner errors)

 3.) If someone brings it back... ruined. Don't show it to the decorator. It only makes them sad and then makes them rethink what they did wrong to make this happen. This is a twenty minute cake that was ruined in seconds. I was told the woman that bought the cake said "It just slipped." When we know she let her son hold the cake.

Things to learn: Cake #2

 1.) When you learn how to finally use the air spray gun on the flowers. Don't be surprised by the fading of the colors because of the harsh lights in the case. Whipped icing already has a hard enough time holding colors. It has an even harder time holding color that was sprayed onto it.

In front it still looked amazing though thankfully. The woman cared none the less as well.

Pratice makes perfect.

Hearing kids gasp at the things made in the bakery makes me smile for the soul fact that I was like that too. I'd stand and stare at the creations being made. No matter how simple to how hard they looked to be made. When I started in the bakery I was given two very simple jobs. Make grimlins and ice cup cakes. After working in the bakery I began to realize you can do anything to the little critters that they were a hit no matter what you did. Getting creative I made a one eye purple people eater. You just can't go wrong with a purple people eater.

 Even make their eyes wonky.

 Even make them look like they barely escaped a 4th of July show.

 Because, at the end of any giant event you're always lucky enough to escape out of there with the smallest part of your hearing and sanity, in this case hair too.

Wheat Free Wednesdays

 So I work in a bakery. I clearly bake, I decorate cakes, make our guests happy, and do a lot of other things. Well two things our bakery doesn't do... is make things from scratch, and do creative things outside of the book for decorating. I don't like this. I live with it, but don't like it. Well since I now have the Iced Apron up and running I'm starting some weekly activities. 

Messed up Mondays- this will be story time for what ever I messed up terribly on.

Wheat free Wednesday- I'll make something wheat free and share pictures of the out come of such projects.

Flower Fridays-Flowers, one of the fun, hard, and most creative things someone can make from anything. I'm still learning but that doesn't mean I can't share what I've done. :)

 So for Wheat free Wednesday I made vanilla whoopie pies. They are indeed small all of them formed to be about the size of a quarter. But all of them poofed up to be about half an inch tall.

 They were fluffy and soft to eat which was really nice to have. They didn't crumble into sand once you bit into it. Though making them thinner will be my next goal.

 Trying different kinds of methods to make the whoopie pies larger or taller was fun and yet hard since the dough was the consistency of a cookie batter. I'm sure if I added chocolate chips to it they would have been cookie mounds.

 Once they cooled they peeled off the wax paper nicely. Filling the whoopie pies with icing was easy too. The whole make, bake, and eat process took about twenty to thirty minutes. It was fast, quick, easy, and very yummy. Though flavor will be needed for the cookies for next time. They were a little too plain for me.

The end process was still wonderful and I made about 24 little whoopie pies for my lunches. It was very fun and relaxing.

Now I hope you all have a wonderful night and take care of yourself!