Now don't that look delicious!
There is sooo much to talk about this week that this might be done in two parts. I'll start with today and work my way backwards. As you can see from the cake above that I was baking today. I also a friend of mine pick up a cake for her bridal shower. She wanted lemon and vanilla bean and she wanted it to have two tiers. She also wanted the cake to be a topsy turvy cake. Now I am a wiz at regular shaped cakes whether they are round, square, heart, etc.. this was my first topsy turvy cake. Now I have seen enough videos to know how to do this cake.. but with everything new something always goes wrong the first time. I made the top tier taller than the bottom tier which you would think doesn't matter but with these kinds of cakes it does. So I put the cake together got it fully decorated, go to bed last night and guess what happens when I wake up this morning... the cake shifted during the night so the weight was sitting all on one side of the cake. Of course I was not happy about this at all and was quite surprised because this has never happened to me before. I am perfectionist (being a Virgo and all) and it is my nature to work on things until I get them the way I want them. Well I was so disappointed because there was nothing I could shy of starting over and I just didn't have that kind of time. But at the same I realized that what I think are complete disasters.. other people don't see it or just don't care because the cake looks so good. So I told my friend what happened and told her to let me know how everything goes at her bridal shower. Here is a picture below:
Purple, White & Silver Topsy Turvy Cake
Going backwards.. this past Sunday I participated in a local bridal show in York. It took me three days to get ready for this show and even then I still felt like I needed more time because I didn't do everything I wanted to do. I did take pictures of what I did do and I am very proud of myself. I think my tables looked nice. I got lots of comments about my mini candy buffet and on my mini cupcakes I made as samples. I made strawberry with lemon bettercreme, pound cake with chocolate truffle and chocolate pound cake with white chocolate truffle. I also did two table raffles (for 6 cupcakes and 16 cake balls) and entered a 3 tiered cake into the show's raffle. The cake with chocolate cake with chocolate truffle filling and vanilla bean with white chocolate truffle filling. It was very pretty. My hubby came along to help me and we even brought Jayden. He behaved himself for the most part, mainly I think because it was so much stuff to look at. I bought us t-shirts with my business name on them to wear and I also made my own table decorations and dummy cake to show off my cake skills. I got a chance to network with other local businesses and even got some interested brides as well :) It was alot of work to get ready for but I will definitely do it again.
Big Giveaway Cake
Mini Candy Buffet
Mini Cupcake Tower
One side of Vendor table
Hubby & Jayden
Other side of table
Me @ my table
Going backwards once again... I had two deliveries to do last Saturday. One was for a 30th birthday and the other was for a bridal shower. The 30th birthday cake was chocolate cake with peanut butter buttercream. My client ordered the cake for her boyfriend and she wanted skulls and stars on the cake ( I just do what the ask) and she also wanted the cake to be covered in black fondant. At first I thought the combination of things on the cake would look crazy, but once I was done it didn't look to bad. The other cake was for my client's aunt was getting married and she wanted a simple yet blingy cake. So I suggested rhinestone banding around the tiers which the client absolutely loved! The cake was chocolate with mocha buttercream and pound cake with honey-cinnamon buttercream. When I dropped the cake off she was very happy. I feel so proud when my clients are happy with the cakes that I make for them.
On the Jayden front. He has managed to roll over in whatever direction he sees fit. It is kind of funny. And he doesn't cry anymore when I give him tummy time. He used to cry all the time now, but I think he sees it as an opportunity to try to move which is what I want. He is also trying to sit up on his own. The little man really thinks he is grown because he wants to grab everything from my glasses to the television remote. Like today I had to get an oil change, so while I was waiting I was talking to one of the ladies that worked there and in the middle of my conversation he decides to snatch my glasses clean off my face. I fear that he may start walking sooner than I am ready for him. We haven't baby proofed the house yet because he isn't crawling but I know sooner rather than later we will have to do. He is also only waking one time during the night for a bottle and he is sleeping in his crib with no problems now! I thought he would never get to that point. A lot of people told me that once you let your child sleep in the bed with you, they don't want to leave. I didn't have that problem at all, Jayden decided one day that he wanted his own space and went right to sleep. Baby grow so fast, it seems like every week something new happens. He now laughs at me all the time and his laugh makes me laugh. I think I will stop here and pick it up tomorrow. Until then peace and blessings :)
