1st paying cake

As everyone can see lately I have been baking up a storm.  Since January I have made 2 male cakes, 4 females, a truck, a pig, a frog, a Jeep, 1 "flower pot", and a marvelous chocolate cake.  On Friday I finished and delivered my first cake I got paid for.  

It was the same as SuperMom's cake but with 40 red roses and looked a lot better.  Originally it was supposed to be a white chocolate truffle frosting, but yet again it didn't turn out, so I used a regular butter cream frosting.  The flavor of the cake part itself was amazing.  But the temperature everywhere was too hot and made the frosting too soft to stay smooth.

The husband who hired me loved the cake and on Monday I will find out how the wife liked it.

I did learn that the fat content in white chocolate makes it impossible to turn it into a chocolate truffle frosting using the recipe that I have.  I think it would taste great and I will blog about experimenting with that later.

Katie turns 10!

In my family we have this tradition of 9’s.  My mother was born in ’59, my sister Stephanie in ’69, I was born in ’79, my sister Christina in ’89 and ten years ago I was sliced opened from hip to hip and a little girl baby was ripped out of my stomach.  Okay it wasn’t that graphic, but close to it.  Katie was born by caesarean section in 1999.  

To celebrate her 10th birthday we had family and friends from coast to coast come to Elko for a b.b.q. to celebrate it.  

It was a great deal of fun.  

Katie picked out what type cake she wanted, it was cherry and in a skateboard shape. 

 

I think it was the easiest and cutest cake I have made so far.

Just don't try lighting the candles in the wind.  Took Dennis and I 3 minutes to light 10...

Perfection

perfection

noun

1 the perfection of her technique improvement, betterment, refinement, refining, honing.

2 for him, she was still perfection the ideal, a paragon, a nonpareil, the crème de la crème, the last word, the ultimate, the best; informal one in a million, the tops, da bomb; dated, informal the bee's knees, the cat's meow/pajamas/whiskers.

This weekend Gus and I spent it with a wonderful group of people from Idaho.  I usually don’t learn anything from them other than motorcycle stuff, but this weekend I learned a lot.

There is this woman in the group “Tatt’s” she is the most beautiful woman I have ever met.  She is strong, independent, caring, funny and shorter than me (she is 4’11” and I am 5’2”).  This weekend I saw a completely different side of her.  Yes, I did see her behind, but I also saw her scared and what a vulnerable person she really is.  

In everyone’s eyes she is perfection.  In her eyes she is not, she thinks she needs bigger boob’s, a tighter leaner body and is giving up who she is for someone else. 

I am blogging about this because it made me realize that while we may not see ourselves as perfect others do.  Always remember that.

Gus turn's 44

June 21st Gus turned 44!  We celebrated with a nice little party at the Silver Dollar.  I made a cake for it...

There were 4 cakes in it and 4 batches of frosting.  It was cherry. 

Gus got one boob.

Mack got the other.

Dennis a dear friend and bartender we know got the “girlie part”.  He said it was better than he remembered.  He did share it with another friend of ours Michelle.

We all had fun, and came home to a cake made by the girls...  Don't have that picture though.