I confess. I’m a nerd. I married a nerdy geek, and most of my friends are some combination of the two 
Lately, we’ve had a run of orders for geeky / nerdy cakes, and I LOVE it! There’s a wedding cake in December that I’m very much looking forward to doing (Super Mario!), and a World of Warcraft groom’s cake next summer that is going to be *awesome*. This weekend was the “Week of the Geek”, with not one, but THREE nerd/geek cakes! (more…)
Archive for September, 2008
The Week of the Geek! (cake, that is)
Monday, September 29th, 2008Mpls St Paul Weddings Mag
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Check it out! We were featured as #17 of 100 “must-haves and ready-to-use tips for creating an unforgettable Twin Cities Wedding”! , in the latest issue of Mpls-St Paul Mag’s “Weddings”. It came out last Friday.
Click here to find out where you can pick up your copy.
Fruity Glazed Popcorn
Monday, September 15th, 2008This was the first recipe I ever had published, back when I was in grade 5! I used to make this for bake sales in my front yard, as gifts, and whatever. It’s pretty addictive – especially the grape and pineapple flavors, IMO! This was first published in my class newsletter, and a few years later in a fundraising recipe book.
This was way before the internet, so it’s kinda weird to see some really close variations out there now. I remember that I got the base recipe from a friend’s mother, then tweaked it some how. Something wasn’t working right.. argh! So long ago! I’m reading the fundraiser recipe book.. kinda fun to walk down memory lane!
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup light corn syrup
3/4 cup sugar
1 small package Jello, any flavor
10 cups popped popcorn
Melt butter and corn syrup together in a heavy pan. Add sugar and Jello, bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Let boil for 5 minutes, then pour over popcorn. Mix well. Spread popcorn out on a greased cookie sheet, and allow to cool.
First Magazine Shoot!
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Hey all,So today was an event I’ve been looking forward to for a few weeks – I was asked to provide a cake for a Minnesota Bride photo shoot! This would be my first magazine shoot, so that’s a cool milestone.
The idea was to make something “spring” oriented, and they requested a new version of one of my recent wedding cakes – the piped meringue flowers one.. only in bright colors. How fun! Not fun to pipe, just fun to see it come together. I wonder if they read my blog entry on the first one, and how much I hate piping flowers? They’d have to be sadists, in that case, LOL.
While it’ll be cool to see the finished layout, I don’t have a ton to report on how the day went. I dropped the cake off early this morning, then had to hightail it over for a physical therapy appointment. (No good news to report on that front, I’m afraid!). Then I had to bide my time until I was to pick up the cake at the end of the shoot.
