So Its Been a While...

Hello followers it has been brought to my attention that I have been absent from my blog for quite some time. Although in light of my absence I have accomplished quite a bit. I took 2 summer classes at college and finally earned my degree in General Studies. I have also been very busy at work with the end of summer coming and the beginning of fall starting to arrive. This is our busy time in the bakery so I have been working on quite a lot of cakes. Here are a few that are my favorite.

Cakes

I have been very busy these past few weeks! It seems that our cake orders have increased and on weekends its normal to have 30-40 cakes! That is quite a lot of icing and decorating but I have documented them well and thought I would share some of my favorites.

Tip Tuesday!!!

Although I use many tools to create my cakes, there is one thing I could not live without! A cake smoother. This tool is used to smooth the sides of the cake as well as the top. Without using this, cakes would have spatula marks where one tried to smooth the icing. This is something that I use every single day. Everyone should have one because it makes your cakes look professional even if you doing it at home!!!

A Busy Month...

Sorry followers it seems it has been some time since I last posted to my blog. The past couple of weeks have  been very exhausting at work. One would think that I would be getting a lot of cake orders for graduation but the opposite is true it seems that there has been a sharp increase in my orders for just birthday cakes! As of right now I have 16 cakes due for this weekend. Anyway with the past few weeks being busy I have done a lot of cool cakes. Below are some of my favorites!

Tip Tuesday

Tip Tuesday is a new thing that I'm starting on my blog! The purpose is to help fellow beginning cake decorators by using the skills that I have learned.

For the first Tip Tuesday I want to feature the most important tip to a cake decorator! Its the cake icer tip #789! This tip is so amazing...instead of using a knife and risking cake crumbs in the icing you can use this tip to get your frosting on smoothly! This tip retails at $3.29 and is made by Wilton. This tip does not work with a coupler and has to have its own bag because its such a large tip. I bought one the first time I saw someone use it and it was the best $3,29 that I have ever spent!

Cakes, Cakes, Cakes

Not much happened today so I thought I would share a cake I did recently!

A Surprising Cake

Today at work I had to make this very unusual cake. It was a double round 10'' cake that had this cascade of frosting dots on it. The picture looked a little odd and to be honest I was quite worried about how it would turn out. After I got the cake cut and iced it was time to add the decorations. At first I thought it was going to turn out horrible but after I got going on it and was finished I really loved how it looked. It just goes to show that you shouldn't judge a cake by the picture because it could really turn into something great. Below is the finished product!

Life is Sweet!

Two months ago I started at the bakery in our small hometown grocery store as the cake decorator. I have worked very hard on improving my cake decorating skills and was recently promoted to Assistant Bakery Manager. Being a bakery manager has been a dream of mine for sometime now. Ideally I would love to someday open my own bakery. I am very excited to see what the future holds in store for me. Perhaps one day I will be the bakery manager or even own my very own! Below are some of my recent creations!