LET THEM EAT CAKE!

Cuz if they keep eating cake I keep working!

Here are a few of the cakes and cookies that

I actually remembered to take pictures of

before they left the kitchen. I think what

I need is a dedicated spot in the kitchen

to take pictures, like a light box. The

finished cakes could go there before I

deliver them and then I would remember

to take pictures!

Dark chocolate cake with peanut butter frosting

for (you guessed it) a hunter.

A marble wedding cake with buttercream frosting.

The customer called me the next day and

left me a message: "I have to say I was very

surprised--that was the best cake I have ever eaten

which really shocked me since it came from a bakery"

I think there is a compliment in there somewhere...

This was a fun cake to make. The customer called for a

retirement cake for the museum's curator. She threw some

ideas out there and I said Why not the museum itself?

She said You can do that?? Yep, and it is all edible.

A local reception cake for a couple that was married

in Hawaii. Lemon cake, lemon curd, vanilla buttercream.

Sugar cookies for a library program about

conserving energy. They wanted lightning

bolts, but I know from experience that due

to the shape of the bolts, most of them would

have been broken upon delivery.

I hate to be the cookie Nazi, but in a way

that's my job, isn't it? LOL

The dreaded boy cake. No flowers, no pretties, no fancy

schmancy. So what else is there? Hey I know--Plaid!

Can you believe this was for a 6 year old girl? I loved

this kid! They met me at the party venue and she came

out of the car and immediately started telling me all

about Egyptian culture. Her mom said she has read

every book she could get her hands on and loves

the History Channel. At 6 years old.

She loved her cake with real edible gold dust

sprinkled all over it. She said Thank you lady,

that's exactly what I wanted. :-)

A play on the popular Life is Good clothing line. This was

for a church life group and one of the men had a Life is

Good shirt on when he came in. Their meeting theme

was log cabin and the whole menu was geared towards

that. They even cooked dinner on an antique cook

stove to be authentic!

Another fun baby shower cake with clotheslines around

the cake and little girl clothes hanging on it. I didn't

realize until I saw the pictures of the cake that the

flower I put on the baby's bum looks like a banana

peel--what a dork I am! Why oh why didn't I make

it lavendar or even pale blue?

A baby cookie platter ordered by an out of state Grandma.

She had me deliver it to a Coast Guard family 2 days

after the baby was born.

I knocked on the door and it whipped open with a

large man in sweats with big dark circles under his eyes

standing there with a pacifier hanging from the corner

of his mouth and a very tiny baby crying on his shoulder.

He briefly smiled, thanked me and apologized as he took

off down the hallway to bring the baby to mommy. He

even forgot to close the front door.

I remember those days...

A Goodbye cake for one of the nurses at the hospital.

Fun, fun, fun. The customer gave me a picture of her

son on his snowmachine and that is him on his

birthday cake. I painted his image onto fondant

so the whole thing is edible. I was able to paint the

goggles and headlights in gold leaf so they looked

like light was shining on them and I sprinkled

edible glitter on the snow.

Well thanks for looking! I am headed back to the

kitchen to finish my fish cookies!