Roses for Moms and Dads

<---My Favorite Cake ever! I'm so proud of this one. My best customer ordered this one for his baby-mama. It's my famous lemon cake. He almost always tells me to do whatever I think looks best. This was a fun cake.










<----This is also a cake ordered from my best customer, Eddie. He works in the whse at Super-Dog. He ordered this cake for Rosie in our office. He felt bad that he orders all these cakes for his family and they stay in the office for the girls to drool over until he gets to take them home, but the girls never get to eat any! So he ordered this one for Rosie, to share with the office girls. It was chocolate cake-the only kind she'll eat!

Below right -purple & yellow roses: I loved doing the roses-they are so much fun and once I finally got them down, it was so easy to do! Don't get me wrong, I had a hell of a time with them in the practicing stages. Then I just sat myself down in front of the TV with a tub of frosting, and my rose tip 104 and a bunch of papertowels and a paper plate, to just make rose after rose after rose, until I got them right!
Below left: Malaka N Rob-This was ordered by one of the Super-Dog Drivers, Pat. This was his first cake order, and he requested an Angel food cake with Chocolate frosting!?! WHAT!? I had never made an angel food cake to decorate as a cake order, and to top it off, had never made CHOCOLATE BUTTERCREAM frosting! Well, how hard could it be? I could make regular buttercream, just add some cocoa powder, right?! Actually, it was very easy to make. Sooooo Rich and thick!!! With all that he wanted written on that cake, its difficult to put all that wording on a cake with a big hole in the middle! So I filled the tube pan hole with chocolate buttercream frosting...SOOO RICH! I'd need about 6 glasses of milk with just one slice :) Pat loved that cake, so much that he decided to give me $50 for it! He's an awesome customer-I hope to keep him around : D
These 2 cakes (Rosie's roses and the chocolate/angelfood) were due on the same day. When I have a cake due during the week, I only have time to work on them after I get home from work, which doesn't leave me much time to get them finished. So I bake the cakes 2 days prior, and decorate them 1 day prior to the due date. Since I had 2 cakes due, I was doubly busy that nite! My mother in law Marsha came over that nite to have dinner w/me and brian, and my neighbor Amy came over to see how I was doing with my cakes. The 3 of us were up until about 12:30am chatting, eating the pork roast I made that nite as well, and just having fun while I decorated both cakes! I really appreciated their input on the decor and their support when I started to break down. I'm very critical of myself and my decorations so I usually need someone to tell me whether they like what I've done. I sometimes tend to not be too confident of myself and my creations either, at least until they're totally completed and I get to see the finished product. Anyways, we had so much fun that nite! Marsha did not want to see anymore polka-dots!! I also have a real problem with writing and lettering in frosting, I pray when I get a cake order that they won't want me to write anything on it! Unfortunately that's usually not the case. For the Roses for Rosie cake, Marsha took a toothpick and scratched in the letters, so I could just trace over it in the frosting. That seemed to work well, and prevented a full out break down, at midnight!




<-----Happy Birthday DAD!!! I had left over Chocolate frosting, I had to use up quickly. I was unfortunately not churning my creative wheels when it came to my dad's bday cake. All I knew was I had to use this chocolate. So I turned to my hubby, Brian. Of course he had a perfect idea!! He used a toothpick to trace out the design of a real golf course, I had no idea how it was supposed to go! He told me what colors to make the "green" and the rest of the area of the course. The sand traps are brown sugar, and there's even a toothpick flag and a little bitty golf ball too! That was a fun cake to make, because Brian and I did it together. Usually the norm is that he stays out of the kitchen, because I'm liable to end up yelling at him and shooing him out of the kitchen. I'm a little testy when I'm decorating my cakes. So, we get to mom/dad's house for dad's bday celebration. Mom finds a large taper candle that belongs in a candle holder, not a birthday cake! So mom turned out the lights, and lit the candle, and we sang. All of a sudden, as soon as we finished singing, it was time for the birthday boy to blow out the candle. Well guess what?! Mom decided dad wasn't capable to blow it out, and blew it out herself before dad could even get a breath! I guess you had to be there, but believe me, it was Hi-Lar-Ious!!!
Merry Christmas Everyone-I know it's a hard one for me.