Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Jacqueline is a woman that works with Eric and asked if I would make a cake for her son's second birthday this weekend.  After listening to the things that Mason enjoyed I thought that the best way to create a cake for him would be to make a planes, trains and automobiles cake for him.  It only seemed appropriate for his interests. 

Accounting Roses

My mom works in an accounting department and they celebrate birthdays by month.  All of the birthdays in August were celebrated on the same day.  One of the wonderful women asked if I would make a birthday cake for the 3 women celebrating a birthday this month and I was honored to be a part of their celebration!! 

Happy Birthday Uncle Doug

My aunt Katie asked me to make a cake for my uncle Doug for his birthday this week but he really likes chocolate!  This brought on a new challenge of making chocolate buttercream icing to put on his cake.  Eric really liked the chocolate icing, hopefully uncle Doug will enjoy it just as much!!

Mickey Mouse...Pretty In Pink

My wonderful cousin has been a wonderful help in advertising for me to some of her friends!! A good friend of hers called me to do two cakes for her daughters first birthday party.  They were going to be having a Mickey Mouse party and wanted a Mickey Mouse cake.  Along with the Mickey Mouse cake she wanted an additional single cake for the daughter to eat.  She wanted something Pink for the daughter but wanted a carved Mickey Mouse head.  I was excited to do a Mickey cake and thrilled to see how it would turn out.  After the finished product, I am pleased with how it turned out. 

Something Blue

I received a call from a mother of one of Erics good friends to do a cake for a bridal shower that she is having.  Sherry seemed to wonder if it was to last minute until Chaz stepped in and got Sherry to give me a call about it.  Chaz was over at our apartment the night that I made the Schreiners wedding cake and he was able to watch me make the cake in action.  Because he had seen me working on one the night before he assumed that making a smaller cake in a short amount of time would not be an issue.  Thanks Chaz for getting me to make another cake!!  Now I know who to call to publicize for me!

New Trick

My Bible study leader in Bowling Green suggested that I check out a bakers blog that she found.  I spent the morning learning new tricks and cool ways of putting cakes together.  After looking at everything I became inspired to try something new on a cake.  Not sure where it is going to go but I am sure we will find it a home by the end of the day today!

Spelling Error

Some volunteers in the Junior High at church asked if I would make their daughters 23rd birthday cake.  This cake was to be made pretty quickly and was an opportunity to use a different type of icing.  This cake was a new challenge that I was ready to take on.  Being so caught up  in getting the cake done and beautiful, I made a spelling error in birthday.  When I called Donna and told her about my mistake she was not worried about it at all.  When she came and saw the cake she informed me that it was not a big mistake and she was not worried about it because it was not very noticeable. 

In making this mistake this was a great learning experience in teaching me to move slowly and pay close attention to each detail.  The family was pleased with the cake and enjoyed it very much along with the servers at the restaurant.