The first 8 hours

As you may or may not know, any cake takes hours of work to prepare and build-- add sugar flowers and you can easily double or triple your time. I'm getting ready for the Central Florida Fair Confectionary Arts Competition... The cake (dummy cake) will be dropped off for the show on April 12 and I started working on it this week. I sketched about 6 different designs and finally settled on the last one I drew. My first four-tier cake! I'm entering the wedding cake category, so this will be my first wedding cake too.

In order to take my time and really have an opportunity to do the best work I've done yet-- I've gotten started early. Here's a sneak peak at my first 8 hours worth of flowers. Eventually I'll have many more flowers and they'll be dusted and wired together and all that technical stuff. Crysanthamums and yellow roses.

More to come!

Belated Birthday Post

I have been meaning to post this cake for a very long time! Since January, to be exact. It's been so busy at work and in my pesonal life, I've not gotten to make many cakes-- in fact, none since this! But I'm getting back to it. And I'm still determined to master the square. This was my sister's 20th birthday cake. Cute, funky, and pretty, and just enough girly-- just like her! Love you sister!

Central Florida Fair Confectionary Arts Competition

I'm doing it!
I just ordered my very own set of cake dummies from Taylor Foam. So, off to the drawing board now. There are so many categories you can enter... wedding cakes, themed cakes, mini-tiered cakes... I'm thinking I've always wanted to try a "wedding cake," and since this has no actual "big day" on the line, this is the time to do it. Still thinking about it. But, I'm going to sketch out some ideas this week and we'll see what I come up with. Wish me luck!