Feeling Better

Finally. It took until midday Saturday for me to stop feeling ick. Here are some new CAKE pics. Enjoy.

I was so thrilled with this - I finally got the BIG rose perfect!
So I only did ONE! I didn't have to cover my fuck-ups with more roses.
I made this for the display case. I figured it would be pretty and bright for the display case.
And it sold an hour after I put it in the case.
A beautiful stacked baby shower cake.
I was so thrilled with how this turned out.

Viking Kittens Rock!

I've always loved this! (snagged it from Scorn this am)



I used to have a link to this on my side bar because I LOVE these Viking Kittens so much.

Okay, I'm going back to bed. I feel like crap and am feverish. I don't think I should be messing with cakes today. *sigh* I hate being sick.

Running On The Treadmill Of Life

Sheesh. I've been so damn busy lately. It's good. It's not always good though. Anxiety attacks are bad. I've been having them. YAY! Can't worry about that now, too much to do. Besides, everyone is busy, everyone has shit to deal with. Some have much more than I do, just need to suck it up and deal. Commencing sucking. Moving on.

Not having two days in a row off can be such a bitch as far as getting things done. And ya know, I'm so scatter brained at times (most times) it's hard to stay on track - ADD is so shitty. For instance I had to be somewhere recently - at 5 pm, I got off work at 4 pm had to change clothes, print out papers and get going. I spent 20 minutes looking for the RIGHT skirt to wear that I ended up leaving right at 5 pm. Great, already late when I'm leaving, had a 20 minute drive and no getting lost time built in (this is a must, I get lost 90% of the time I go ANYWHERE - even if I've been there before) AND I was wearing the wrong skirt. *sigh*

THEN, last night I go to test THE CAKE recipe again. Last time, just checking that it's PERFECT and all with the few changes I've made. I mix it up while making kids do homework and such and stick it in the oven for 35 minutes. The timer goes off and I pull out two pans of dark brown greasy sludge. I panic and wonder how a few tiny changes could make SUCH a difference! The offspring are amazed and bewildered (as usual). I send them off to bed. And ponder. What could I have done wrong? And by wrong I mean totally fucking off the wall wrong? Is there a black hole in my oven? Maybe a temporal vortex that caused all the ingredients to metamorphose into something EVIL? Do I read too many comic books? Is this a plot by the government? Maybe alien contact? Two little aliens just got cooked? Am I watching too much SciFi lately? And then it came to me! The answer in BIG BOLD NEON LETTERS with a DUNCE cap for me to wear... I forgot to put in the FLOUR! WTF is wrong with me? Who gets so distracted that they forget the FLOUR in a cake? Me, that's who.

And my sweetie is sick today. *big pout* Hope you feel better soon Sarge.

Okay enough whining, I know you just come here for CAKE.

This is actually three cupcakes. Cat, I'm a Kitty-Cat and I Dance, Dance, Dance!
This is a little 5" cake. Very cute though.
Still cute. Makes me think of the preppy movement way back when.
Another tiny cake!
So pretty.
I just forgot to post this the other day. It goes with the present cake in the last post. Funny thing is the grandma brought this back in right before I left because their cat had licked off the 1st B on the cake.
In the case right now.
I liked the design on that anniversary cake, so I thought I'd duplicate it for the case. The boss told me yesterday that the woman who picked up the anniversary cakes was a little put off that the cake looked like a Valentine's cake to her. Well sorry, she said white and red and I could do what I wanted and I wanted to make it look all lovey-dovey. My boss told her nicely that's what she gets when she says decorator choice.
So many football themed cakes.

Okay that's all for now. Go get some coffee and get back to work.

Monday Morning Cakes

Sorry, been busy with WORK and all, haven't gotten things posted.
This is an anniversary cake.
The couple had been together for 50 years.
Fucking amazing.
A first birthday cake. I talked the mom into going with a round cake because I just really like how it looks.
Kind of like a hat box.
The mom came in with a vague idea of what she wanted. Something heavy metal and she mentioned Metallica and a guitar.
The flames were my idea. Flaming guitars rock.

That's it for now. I have to go to work now. I'm tired today. Boohoo, I know.

I'll Be So Sad When Mardi Gras Is Over!


I'm absolutely loving making all the colorful cakes!

My other Mardi Gras cake (look down a couple of posts) sold really quick. Maybe this one will last a few days, I think it looks amazing in the display case.

I have so much to do tomorrow - 15 cake orders, most of them specialty cakes, are sitting on my table. I feel like I should have stayed and finished half of them or something but I had to leave - those meddling kids need me! Er... um.. I mean my kids need dinner! Sorry... too much Scooby these days.

Disappoint

Main Entry:
dis·ap·point Listen to the pronunciation of disappoint
Pronunciation:
\ˌdis-ə-ˈpȯint\
Function:
verb
Etymology:
Middle English disapointen to dispossess, from Middle French desapointer, from des- dis- + appointer to arrange — more at appoint
Date:
15th century

transitive verb : to fail to meet the expectation or hope of : frustrate intransitive verb : to cause disappointment.

Things that disapoint. The weather peoples had suggested there would be ice this morning. Ice would suggest that most business (such as school) would be closed today as Dallas would be paralized (as usual) by the ice. It's 7:24 AM and there is no ice, meaning there is no paralisis, meaning SCHOOL IS STILL HAPPENING! Guess who is disapointed about the lack of ice? It's certainly not me (I have my own reasons for being disapointed), the only time I'm disapointed by a lack of ice involves a beverage and a hot day.

Well I have to get ready for work also, enjoy your no ice day!

Third Time Is A Charm

Last night I baked my third and final attempt at the PERFECT chocolate cake for this contest. Thanks to my sweetie, Sarge, who gave me the recipe to use - I made a couple of small changes to make it all mine. And here is the result:


Oh the icing was soooooo good.


Mmmmmmmm chocolate cake....

I actually thought I fucked up the cake because I didn't put it in the right size pan. What can I say, I've never been good at math! After cooking it for an extremely long time last night I just stuck it in the fridge and went to bed quite despondant about the cake as I had already vowed that the third try would be my final attempt to get this thing right - ADD makes life fun, I was already BORED with this and fearful that continued cake trials would result in the 16 lbs I lost last year rejoining the firm so to speak. But the fates have an odd sense of humor, this morning I retrieved the cake and upon freeing it from it's springform prison I discover that it was not RUINED as I expected, but that it was GOOD... no, not GOOD... it was PERFECT. I could barely contain my elation as I spread the chocolaty goodness known as chocolate buttercream over the fabulous cake bringing it from amazingly good to near godlike. Yes a rich chocolaty diety, something all fat chicks could worship. mmmmm... worship never tasted so good!

On to other things... CAKE!

Ah yes, the season of Mardi Gras is upon us!
WTF is up with the baby being GOLD though? That's so freaky looking.

And now for something completly insane:

Attempt 2

Well last nights chocolate cake was a dissapointment. It was still a good cake, but not the taste I'm looking for and my attempt at making the cake a tad bit moister just resulted in the cake kind of falling apart. Two out of three of the taste test team though it was great, but they are also under 10 years old and think anything with a high sugar content is fantastic. The over 40 crowd (teehee, I'm calling K a CROWD) tended to agree with me that although it was quite tasty, it wasn't just right. So... one more night of testing, I'll get an extra opinion from Sarge on Wednesday and then I may very well be at the END of my chocolate cake baking endurance. Who knows.

Scout Stuff

Just a reminder to all that Girl Scout Cookie sales have started! I know I sent out e-mails to most of you, and to those of you who I forgot to send an e-mail to, wow, I suck don't I? Anyway, e-mail me your cookie order, I'll give you more details on cookies and I'll even send a photo of the cookies with the details! Woohoo! Come on now, you know you want cookies.

Random Play

Recently I've had a brilliant moment. I know, it's rare, but it HAPPENS. I have started negotiating chores with my stubborn progeny with Wii time. For instance - take out all of the garbage to earn 5 minutes of Wii time. Sunday Cabbage Patch got with the program right away and earned 15 minutes of Wii time, Super Girl earned 5 minutes. Oh let me tell you the screams of 'That's not fair!' were loud and unending when Super Girl had to hand over the controls to ME after 5 minutes of play. Bwhahahahahaha! Sometimes being the MOM is AWESOME! It almost makes up for the fact that I really SUCK at all the games.

Over Heard

Sunday night as I prepared the red beans to soaking, Super Girl looked at the pot of beans with disdain and said "Beans... Don't beans give you gas?" What could I say except yes. I was silently impressed that she was thinking out her options of reasons for refusing to eat the beans.

Cabbage Patch has a new favorite word. Piss. Last week she pulled out that word as we were playing with her new Polly Pocket doll set. It came with a cat and a monkey. I was making the cat be a wee bit psychotic and hiss at everyone. At one point the cat hopped in the car and hissed at her doll to which she yelled "Cat! Don't piss in the car!" We had a discussion as to how PISS is not appropriate and how she shouldn't be saying it, yadda, yadda, yadda. I thought that was the end of it. This past weekend K and the kids met me for lunch. Out side of the fine dining establishments drive through area Cabbage Patch found a Pokemon card. Inside we waited for our number to be called the offspring played with the Pokemon card, at one point I heard Cabbage Patch say "I throw a PISS BALL at you!" All activity at the stopped as my attention was now focused on my 6 year old who was uttering piss yet again. "Cabbage Patch. If you say PISS one more time I will take you in the bathroom and wash your mouth out with soap. Do you understand me?" All forward thinking of reasoning with a child and not falling back on the soap in the mouth trick our parents loved so dearly went out the drive through window at that moment as I envisioned my adorable offspring telling her teacher that she needed to take a piss. No, no. That could not happen. I have YET to be called from school for a child swearing (I know, that's a surprise to ME also!) and I'm not about to have it happen over PISS.

Okay, enough from me. I have to get on to work. CAKE PHOTOS later today!

moar funny pictures

Contests

I have the deadline for two contests quickly approaching. One is a HUGE deal, it's the International Dairy-Deli-Bakery Association 13th Annual Cake Decorating Challenge. I want to go to this so bad!! I have about 300 photos of my cakes to go through and choose the ones I think are good enough for this entry. If you've seen anything here that you think is AMAZING, leave a comment and I'll make sure photos of that care are included.

The next contest is a store wide contest. It's for a chocolate cake and icing recipe with . Last night I baked my first attempt at this recipe. See the results:



My poor suffering offspring. They've had to endure taste testing this cake and they'll have to endure more. I'm a monster.

Other than that, things are good. I've got several deadlines (not for contest entries) looming and lots to do. For now, I have to go to work.

More CAKE

You people and your cake addiction. *shaking head* But what kind of enabler would I be if I didn't provide you with your virtual sugar buzz? Go ahead, you know you love my cake.

This race car is made entirely out of cupcakes and icing! No wonder the payments are so cheap!
Not sure why I can't get a good photo of anything with a black border from this angle. I think my camera has ATTITUDE!
Ahhhh and the side of the cake. Isn't it pretty? The mom was all "Yeah, it's fine," when she picked it up - that after being so PICKY about the cake!
13 year old boys are just as odd yet less demanding as the girls.
I airbrushed that guitar blue then added the neck of the guitar. I made sure it looked like the exact Gibson guitar that the boy liked. His mom LOVED the cake.

Then there was the woman who picked up her cake at 12:30, called back at 1:30 to complain about the cake, I offered her a small white cake to make up for the fact that I didn't go the cake half white and half chocolate (sadly, I do make mistakes), she told me she was in a neighboring city which is 20 minutes away and besides the party was over and the cake was eaten, she just wanted some money back. ummm yeah.... a kids birthday party is completely done in 40 minutes? She was just being a bitch and wanted money back, she probably knows out store will do whatever to make sure the customer is unhappy. A couple of months ago on a Sunday a woman brought in a small piece of cake in a zip lock bag and a receipt saying that the cake was dry AND that the center wasn't cooked all the way through. She demanded the money back and didn't have the credit/debit card with her that was used to purchase the cake. The store manager went ahead and gave her the money back. On Monday when my supervisor called the number the woman gave, it didn't work. Not only that but there was no order from Saturday with that woman's name on it. So, someone just picked up a receipt and decided to see if they could scam the store. They DID! Some people suck.

More writing later, enjoy the CAKE for now.

Friday Already???

Wow, time flies when it's busy at work. Cakes and stuff I meant to post yesterday. I'll write in the words and stuff after work.

LATER:

Sheesh... It's after 6 pm, I've only been home about 30 minutes. I keep hearing "Mamma! Super Girl won't let me be RAVEN!" "Get off you dweebs!" "Leave me alone!". *whispers* I hear little people.

Work has suddenly gotten REALLY busy. It's great for me, but damn, I'm tired. Tomorrow I have to open the bakery and get the inventory that arrives tomorrow morning (50 pieces) and do all the cakes for Saturday and Sunday. And blah, blah, blah, you don't care. You just come here for a virtual sugar buzz. I can see it in your eyes.

Fine... have your cake.

Purple poodle cupcakes.
Mmmmmmm chocolate... (said in Homer Simpson voice).
This cake sold in 2 hours. Damn it. Now I need something ELSE for the display case.
I keep practicing on those giant roses.
Still not perfect.
Pink poodle!
Le Woof!
One side of the cabin cake.
A house (cake) so fine even Abe himself would be proud! This was a b-day cake for a little boy having his party at a lodge. The mom was tremendously happy with the results. She had gotten her cakes from the previous decorator who trained me and was a tad worried when informed that that decorator had gone to the new store. It made me happy to know that I had exceeded her expectations. It also reminded me of when the other decorator was teaching me, one day she said "Just don't get better than me." Oops. My bad. ;)

Long Awaited Photos!

Ahhh the Divorce Cake I did for my cousin.



It was quite popular.

Scooby Doo! I love you!

So much so, I did two cakes featuring YOU!
Everybody loves the Mystery Machine.
And for the Ladies... Scooby in a convertible.

Monday Morning Breakfast

Go ahead and have it, you know there'll be cake later. ;)






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