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Friday, June 27th, 2008
This weekend is a weekend we look forward to every year - Pride! I was their floral sponsor last year, this year I am back - but with cake! My husband will be back to take photos at the private and mass commitment ceremonies this weekend, as well. I’ll be updating after the event with photos, but I have one teaser pic that I have to share!
This is what the inside of the sheet cakes look like! We will be filling these (amaretto) cakes with a white chocolate & Amaretto mousse, and serving them after the mass commitment ceremony on Sunday.
Cool looking, huh? Definitely the most colors I’ve marbled together at once!
I am SO excited. Pride is always a good time for my whole family (my 10 year old LOOOVES wandering around and seeing the sights!), but this year is even cooler! Not only are we debuting our new, crazy marbled rainbow cake… and supplying a gorgeous “dummy” cake that’ll be kept and displayed by Pride for years to come..
.. but I’m baking for En Vogue and Deborah Cox! Woo! Love their music! I’m just putting the finishing touches on the menu for their Green Room platter, will definitely post more later!
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Check it out:
 Hubby took this photo back a few months ago - it’s our table at Epic, for the Social Butterfly event. I have NO idea what he did to the series of photos to animate it, but I thought it was cool enough to share here!
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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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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
Busy week for blog entries, huh?
Back on Monday, I was enjoying a day off (so I thought!), and happened to catch a segment on Showcase Minnesota that caught my attention. Jim Leighton was on the show, talking about the upcoming Social Butterfly event. It was a benefit for the Children’s Cancer Research Fund.
He talked a bit about what they do for families through the Care Partners - particularly assisting families that are in town for their child’s treatment programs. I couldn’t possibly do justice by paraphrasing what he said, but it really inspired me. So.. I looked him up and emailled to offer a donation of desserts for the event - which was only a few days away! (more…)
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Wow, where to start?
I haven’t had a day off in weeks. Getting ready for the TCBA show, then a roadtrip, then the tasting… I was looking forward to this weekend being a time-out. No such luck! (more…)
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Sunday, November 18th, 2007
A couple of days ago, I participated in the Kare 11 OnLive Potluck. Crazy amounts of fun!
A few of their regulars met at the studio for some online/OnLive chat, and a potluck to follow. I knew it was going to be a lot of fun, but I didn’t know I’d be filming a commercial, OR that I’d walk out with my very own catchphrase!
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Sunday, November 11th, 2007
Whew. What a party!
Last night was my friend Mandi’s birthday. This is the woman who went from hiring me - as a complete stranger - to becoming my favorite client EVER, to the person who started me off in the HUGE change of career from flowers to cakes.. to a good friend. One of the sweetest, most fun people I’ve known, and she’s like a little sister to me.
Her husband is great too, and he planned this party as a surprise for her. To be honest, I wasn’t sure he’d manage to pull it off. She’d ASKED him to plan a surprise party (kinda makes that difficult!), she lives next door to one person that was instrumental in pulling it off, and works with someone else! (more…)
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Wow! What a crazy weekend!About 2 weeks ago, we were asked to provide a sick amount of goodies for a convention we were already planning to attend… in CHICAGO! A whirlwind of planning, swearing, and baking ensued, resulting in 300 or so decorated cookies, 560 servings of cake (4 tired cakes of various heights), 200 mini cupcakes, and 1500 of our gourmet cookies. (more…)
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Saturday, October 20th, 2007
A carved birthday cake for a reality tv star! Shawn Bakken (of Beauty & the Geek fame) is a soccer playing Scout leader.
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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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