I SHOULD BE IN THE KITCHEN

I have so much to do today that I am finding ALL

sorts of things to distract me from getting started.

There is probably a video on You Tube poking

fun at that.

I just went and dropped a treat by for my husband

on the job site--Oatmeal Raspberry Chocolate Bars.

I am trying several new recipes out to decide what

to sell at the up and coming Farmer's Markets. I

am also going to make hand held Apple Pie

pockets--I think they will be very popular.

Some days I feel like this spider...

Then I do this to people and feel better:

Nah--just kidding. This is our older daughter testing for

her high red belt. She has another test coming in May,

then it's on to Black Belt. May is a big month for her...she

gets her braces off, turns 19 and heads out for a month

long vacation to WA state.

The bakery has been very busy with lots of diverse

orders rolling in. It's amazing to me what people

come up with! I even had to make Baklava this month

for a presentation on Turkey at the library:

If you ever feel like you don't have enough stress

in your life, just open a box of Phyllo dough and

try to make it behave (shudder)

I ended up asking for help from my husband (his

nickname should be The Problem Solver) and

we came up with a pretty good system for getting

it into the pan in one piece without wearing

it and tearing it.

I think I have figured out a solution for the time

being to start providing people with standing

order bread. I am asking for payment a month

in advance and for right now my delivery day

is Tuesday. So for $24.00 I deliver a freshly

made loaf of bread at around 3:30 every

week on Tuesday for a month.

If they are not home we agree on a safe spot

for me to put the bread and away I go to the

next customer. So far it is working fantastic

and my goal is to get 20 steady standing

order customers.

It has been a busy few weeks, hence the lack

of blog posts. I don't even take pictures of

every cake anymore, I just get busy and

forget! Here are some of the projects

that I remembered to take pictures of:

This was for a small wedding here in town. Now

this is my kind of cake! Chocolate cake, chocolate

buttercream, chocolate ganache & chocolate roses.

I had a lot of fun making this one--I love heart

shaped cakes.

That was a lot of cookies! 600 total for a barn dance

put on by the school.

Another fun one for a 2 year old. The dinosaur

is from the birthday boy's favorite book.

This was made to match a baby shower invitation.

For a 10 year old motorcycle-loving birthday boy.

A special cake for my niece turning 18. She

goes to school out of state and was on home

leave, so we celebrated a little late. She is

an Alaska girl through and through, so her

cake was all about living life up here:

Another Alaska cake for a 90 year old

that lives at the Pioneer Home. This

was also a fun one! They had me write

Keep On Reeling Em In on the cake.

Motorcycle cookies for the birthday boy's

classmates at school:

Check out some of those names--Quinlyn?

It seems like when I was a kid everybody was

named Tim and Rhonda and Bill--you know,

just regular old names. The little boy sitting

ahead of us in church on Sunday was named Riot.

Or maybe they said Wyatt?