CAKE FAIL

Blech.

Every once in awhile this happens. I hardly ever figure

out what went wrong, I just throw it out and start over.

A bad egg? A forgotten ingredient? I have no idea and

I don't have time to dwell on it.

Lucky for me it burned so bad on the oven floor that it

was like charcoal and just wiped off with a damp cloth.

I left the kitchen window open all night to air it out

because I had cakes to do in the morning.

Friends of ours celebrated their little girl's

first birthday on Friday. It was a very special

cake because this is the little girl I wrote about

last year that was born very premature. Her

mom was airlifted down to Seattle and she

was there for weeks and weeks.

They were advised by the doctors that when

a baby is born so premature they do not

develop resistance to disease very fast. They

recommended that the baby be kept home

for a full year so she isn't exposed to so

many sicknesses at once. They have been

very faithful to keeping that advice and

she has been kept isolated for a full year

except for individual family members

coming and going.

So little Abigail is just starting to come

out and meet everyone at one year old.

Funny, when I delivered the cake we

realized I had made it to match the

party invitations, which I didn't get

to see before I made the cake. Looks

like it was just meant to be!

This was a carrot cake for a lady in the Pioneer

Home turning 85 years old. Lots of pretty

flowers for a pretty lady!

This was a fun cake for a bride getting married

in Hawaii in July. They had the shower decorated

so cute when I dropped the cake off! It was a Luau

theme and they had palm trees set up, leis everywhere

and lots of neat touches. The cake was Italian Creme

so there was coconut inside for a tropical flavor.

I tried to make the flowers look like lei flowers,

but I don't know if I succeeded:

This was a 50th anniversary cake that we

delivered in the pouring rain. My husband

held a huge cardboard over me as I carried

it from the car into the building, then I waited

in the lobby while he ran back to the car for

the granite cake stand.

We went up 2 stories in an elevator,

then up 2 staircases with me carrying the

assembled cake and him carrying the

14" granite cake stand.

By the time I set the cake down my arms

were shaking so bad and I still had to set

the topper in place with everybody

watching. Nothing like pressure!

I love how this cake turned out with

all of the gold and I made the sugar flowers

to match the pretty topper the daughter's

provided:

I have a light week coming up as far as cakes,

which is good because our church is having

a breakfast fundraiser next weekend to raise

money for sending the younger kids to camp

in July. I volunteered to make cinnamon

rolls with cream cheese frosting to serve

at the breakfast.

Yum. Is there anything better than freshly

baked cinnamon rolls?