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Friday, July 18th, 2008
This weekend is a special one for me, for a few reasons: - The very first Celebration Generation client is getting married on Saturday! Like most of our clients, she booked waaaaay in advance. So, while she’s far from being our first delivery, it’s still a cool milestone, I think!- It’s all about the sugar / gumpaste with the two wedding cakes going out this weekend! More on that in a minute.- Both cakes got delivered tonight. A Friday! That means I actually have a weekend off for once! Very excited about that. What am I gonna do? Work, of course… but more on that in tomorrows’ blog! Very excited about what I’m doing this weekend..
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
If you’re one of my cake buddies, you likely know how much I hate piping flowers. I say this theoretically, because I haven’t piped a frosting flower since I was about 16, and my good friend Medea got married. No wait, it was before then - I’d already gotten sick of them. I remember now - I’d made calla lilies out of sheets of beeswax to adorn the top of her cake! Anyway, my memory issues aside.. I’m much more of a fondant jockey than a traditional cake lady. I’d rather sculpt than do embroidery, too!
So, when I met up with a cool couple that I wanted to work with.. but who wanted a cake COMPLETELY covered with piped flowers, I faced a dilemma. I ended up throwing my misgivings to the wind, and signed on with them.
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Recently, I signed on to sponsor cakes for the Make a Wish Foundation. I was debating whether or not I should blog about it. Don’t get me wrong, I think what *they* do is super cool.. I just didn’t want to come off as.. well, I don’t know. “Hey, look at me, I’m being all philanthropic here!”.
Well, I just delivered my second cake, and this time actually got to meet most of the people who work at the Minnesota office. It was after meeting all these cool people, and seeing firsthand more of what they do, that I decided I should go ahead and blog about it after all. (more…)
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Wow, it’s been over a month since our last blog, about time we write about SOMETHING, huh? I figure today would be as good a time as any to address something that is a bit of a mystery to some people.. fondant!
Now, if you’ve read about fondant at all, you’ll already know that in some circles, it has a bit of a bad rap. I think I’ll start by explaining that. (more…)
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Once a month, my husband and I get together with 20-30 of our friends for a big dinner party. Our friend Ken is an AMAZING cook, and it’s a lot of fun. A good variety of people go, from little kids to some elderly folks, so as far as guinea pigs go… it doesn’t get much better. These are the lucky people who were present for the birth of the Bananas Foster cake a month ago. (more…)
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
My husband’s best friend had his birthday yesterday, so I welcomed the opportunity to experiment with a flavor I’d dreamed up. I’m waiting on a photo of a slice of the cake, but the finished cake can be seen in my “less traditional” gallery as “Funky Birthday”. Why I forgot to take a photo of the slice is beyond me, especially given the amount of emails my Bananas Foster photo and description generated!
This cake started with my delicious Amaretto white cake as the base. I made a syrup out of peach syrup and Southern Comfort, and brushed that onto the leveled slices of the cake
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Sunday, October 14th, 2007
So, I’d like to introduce our latest flavor offering: Bananas Foster!
This started off with a moist rum and cinnamon cake. I made a traditional bananas foster as a filling - bananas, creme de banane liqueur, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, pecans, and lots of rum! It was finished off with a brown sugar buttercream. The entire cake should have served 56 people.. but 25 or so people finished it off within minutes!
About the title of this blog.. I had leftover filling, and it was just tooooo good to waste.. so I piled it on top of the cake. Later that evening when we were about to serve it, my inner pyromaniac emerged, and we decided to try to set the cake on fire. Bananas Foster IS supposed to be served flambed afterall!
Well, either I cooked the alcohol off, it soaked in too much, evaporated, or just plain wasn’t high enough proof.. for whatever reason, we were unsuccessful in igniting it. Set the cake stand on fire for a brief moment, though! Good times.
I was pretty disappointed - a picture of a flaming cake would have been a wonderful addition to this blog! So, we’ll be doing a re-do at some point, with some modifications made to accomplish that one simple goal - a flaming cake. I will post photos when we do!
In the meantime, the cake earned rave reviews, and the weirdest compliment I’ve ever received. “I’d order a whole one of these if I wanted to kill myself!”. I was a bit taken aback by such a comment (from a sweet old man, at that!).. but then he explained it as a way to go by eating so much, that he loved it. LOL!!
I LOVE experimenting with new flavors, and I am thrilled at how this one turned out!
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
“Obscene” as in “OBSCENELY DELICIOUS!”
Not entirely sure that this batch of experiment is going to make it to my “authorized guinea pigs”, given the way my husband/assistant has been eyeing them. He’s talking about having 13 of these for supper instead of a normal supper. Hrmm.
What are these? Look like basic cupcakes, right? Wrong. These little bites of heaven are Macadamia nut white cupcakes.. with Macadamia/whipped white chocolate mousse “frosting”. It’s actually going to be added to our product line as a filling, I use it on mini cupcakes for experiment/tasting purposes.
Generally speaking, my flavors go before many guinea pigs before making it to the site. This will be added even before it makes it to the guinea pigs, it’s JUST that good! I know!
Next up… chocolate & walnut!
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Well, this morning was our Kare 11 interview. They’d asked me to work on a cake on camera, so with a convention coming up this weekend, I figured this cake would be perfect! This is for the Minnesota Mensa group, meeting this weekend.
This cake underwent a total evolution from the time we initially went over plans with the hospitality chairperson for the event. The initial plan was to do something relatively plain and “autumn-y”. When I found out that it would be on the news, I contacted them for the go-ahead to go nuts with the idea.. and here’s what we ended up with! (more…)
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
 Well, this cake is less than 24 hours old, and we’ve already had a ton of questions about it. Figured I’d post some information here, for those curious.
This cake was made as a “thank you” to Kare 11 for doing the piece on me. “Raven” is a black labrador retriever who figures prominently in one of their local shows - “Minnesota Bound”. The dog is kind of… iconic. At the end of the show, the host even jokes that she is the “star” of the show, which is about Minnesota outdoor life. One of our cats (Rat) LOVES the show - especially when the birds are on the tv.
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