My first Buffet Dessert Table!

This weekend was awesome.  I finally designed and created my first dessert buffet table.  It was tough.  Lucky for me, my sister was here to help.  The table consisted of Vanilla cupcakes with my signature buttercream frosting, chocolate covered rice krispie treats, chocolate covered marshmallows, chocolate and vanilla sandwich cookies and fresh strawberries.  I think the design portion was the most stressful because it's pressure to make it turn out beautiful!  So proud of me ;-)  

Prep Time

   I've started the prep work on two cakes I have to make for this weekend, a fireman's helmet and a babyshower cake.  The fireman's helmet will be black so I have to dye the fondant.   Let me tell you...I DREAD this part.  Not only do my hands get tired from so much kneeding but my hands turn a weird purple from the food dye.  Yes!  I washed my hands!  #1 rule for me is to always wash your hands.  I am a germ freak and the way I expect someone else to handle my food is the way I approach cleaniness when making cakes.  I also make the fondant out of marshmallows so it gets super sticky and tricky when my son starts to cry for me because I can't get the fondant of my hands fast enough.  Lucky for me my sister came out to stay for about three days so she's been watching my 8 month old love, Max. 
   That is the best babysitting, to be home with my baby while someone else watches him.  I can do my job and still have an eye on my baby.  I can kiss him everytime I see his cute cheeks and I can feed him and change him.  I still get to be a part of his life while I do what I love, I couldn't have asked for anything better.
   Ok, back to cakes.  So, I also worked on the babyshower cake by cutting out the butterflies that will go on it.  These two elements, the black fondant and the butterflies are important to get done early in the week so that there will be time for them to dry.  I don't want flat butterflies on the cake, I want pretty, floating butterflies.  They are drying, as I type, on a flat cookie sheet with rolled pieces of paper towels under the wings to keep them perked up.  I think this is the first week I've had two fondant heavy cakes so prepping ahead of time will save me so much time later in the week when I have to finish them up.
  I will start posting pictures soon, I just have to find the darn camera charger.  I told myself before to always leave it where I know I'll find it because the camera is a BIG part of my business.  I have to take pictures of my work so people see what it is I can do.  So on that note, I will finish this post and start looking for the charger...again.  'Till tomorrow!

The First of Many

     This blog is my attempt at recording my journey into trying to make my home based cake shop a success.  This will not only be recorded forever so that I can look back and remember the journey but it will hopefully also amuse you, because what fun is it if I go at it alone.  My mind is like an etch a sketch.  You can tell me something and minutes later, shake, shake, shake, it's gone.  It's not always a bad thing though.  I attribute my ability to get along with even the most difficult people to the fact that I don't hold grudges.  I don't hold grudges because, well, my etch a sketch mind works so well!  Anyways, the point of this random etch a sketch paragraph is to re-iterate the fact that this blog will help me remember the journey I have decided to take. 
     Having a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and a Master's in Accounting and Financial Management, my decision to open up a cake shop is sort of out of left field right?  Right!  Which is why I have to blog it!  Can you already see the millions of mistakes and weird ideas I will be coming up with?  I can, because I am doing it now.  As I type, I have a dozen Vegan cupcakes cooling off on a rack top of my stove.  Vegan Cupcakes?  What?  I am in no way a health freak and love to drool over anything that is full of fat, calories, and artificial flavors.  BUT in this new journey, I dare to venture in an effort to accomodate other tastes and make these options available to those that do care about their health and their values.  I will not judge, I will just bake :-)