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Sushi Cake, or “Help Me Become the ‘Czar of Cakes’!”

Let me start off with a confession: As the kid who was always picked last for… well, everything, really… I’ve never won anything that involved a popular vote. EVER. As a kid, it was because I was “weird” (Aspergers). That was ok, they were all JUST as weird to me! As an adult, it’s always [...]

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Sunday “Sweet” – A Very Wrecky Birthday

A few weeks ago, our friend Tara invited us to her “End of the World as We Know It” birthday party – scheduled for the day after this most recent “rapture” date. Well, we all know what happened to my husband and I the day after the LAST scheduled rapture, so I was already a [...]

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The Food and Wine Show – Czar of Cakes Competition

So, the Minnesota Monthly Food & Wine Show – and its “Czar of Cakes” competition – happened several months ago. I’m stuck on what to blog today, so I figure it’s about time for me to blog about my cake competition entry! Kinda lame, seeing as how I was pretty good about blogging about it [...]

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Cue the Swan Song, I am FREE!

Yesterday was a day that I’ve been looking forward to for a very long time. I delivered my very last wedding cake! You see, my retiring from cakes was something that had to be worked out carefully, 2+ years in advance. I stopped advertising in wedding media. I stopped taking mainstream orders, choosing to just [...]

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