3 posts tagged “cakes”
I was digging around in my computer files today and found a picture of this cake....it's one of the ones I'm most proud of:
I don't know, it's one of those cakes that turned out better than I thought it would. At first the client wanted me to do a complete Monopoly board, but I said that for a quarter sheet cake, that wouldn't work. I said I would do an "abstract" of a Monopoly board. She didn't get what I meant but I assured her that she would like it. She did.
I have this unusual knack for being able to do things my way and making my clients agree to it. The only thing I'm good at selling is my own skill. And speaking of skill, I ran across this:
I have this unusual knack for being able to do things my way and making my clients agree to it. The only thing I'm good at selling is my own skill. And speaking of skill, I ran across this:
The Recipe for Skill
Yield: A life full of joy and satisfaction.
This recipe is for volume skill; for a la carte, reduce ingredients to 70%
How is my mom?
- 10 lb passion for your craft
- 6 lb drive to help you through the rough times
- 9 lbs pride in oneself and the team
- 7 lbs vision to look beyond normalcy (or insanity!)
- 2 lbs intelligence
Yield: A life full of joy and satisfaction.
This recipe is for volume skill; for a la carte, reduce ingredients to 70%
How is my mom?
Some ask. She's doing great. I continue to give her care every week and spend weekends here in lovely Port Townsend. The only thing that's a drag right now is the summer peak ferry traffic. So far I've been able to travel during the off-peak travel times, but it's only a matter of when I get stuck in a 3 hour line. I dread it. Stupid tourists. They are inconveniencing me. I wish there is some way we could get their money but make them stay home....I want to be able to park downtown again!
In the meantime, I'm in training for my next job:
If that guy can do it, well so can I.
What do these women have in common? We're all pastry chefs, and now we're all married. Welcome to the club Marla!
That's me on the left, Marla, the bride, in the center, and the INFAMOUS Jewlz on the right. As women, we kick ass, but as pastry chefs we kick SERIOUS ass. We should open our own bakery. No we shouldn't. We're not that stupid; we like our life outside of baking as well or better than baking itself. WE HAVE LIVES and we intend to keep it that way. But we can't help fantasizing about owning our own place and having it be the rocking-est bakery ever.
Of course, it shall be called "Three Bitches Bakery". Our motto: "If you don't like it, go f*ck yourself". We don't take complaints, not that anyone would complain anyway, except vegans, but we'd kick their asses out the door before they could say "soy". We'd sell t-shirts:
We'd have a clock on the wall:
We'd probably offend a lot of people, but we wouldn't care because our stuff is so good, people would come in anyway.
That's me on the left, Marla, the bride, in the center, and the INFAMOUS Jewlz on the right. As women, we kick ass, but as pastry chefs we kick SERIOUS ass. We should open our own bakery. No we shouldn't. We're not that stupid; we like our life outside of baking as well or better than baking itself. WE HAVE LIVES and we intend to keep it that way. But we can't help fantasizing about owning our own place and having it be the rocking-est bakery ever.
Of course, it shall be called "Three Bitches Bakery". Our motto: "If you don't like it, go f*ck yourself". We don't take complaints, not that anyone would complain anyway, except vegans, but we'd kick their asses out the door before they could say "soy". We'd sell t-shirts:
Remember this is just a fantasy anyway, so we can say whatever we want. In a perfect world our customers would have the same sense of humor we do.
Seriously, put the three of us together, and you are talkin' serious bakery experience and talent. We care about our stuff, and we know how to do it right. That's right, we're talkin' love here. Love is the ingredient that goes missing in larger bakeries, so we'd keep it small and keep our hands in the dough instead of just raking it in. Ha ha! Did I say raking in the dough? Seriously, I know that doesn't happen in the bakery biz. It's just a fantasy.............sigh.
There is a fourth bee-yotch out there that DID open her own place, and I've had the honor of working with her. She rocks too. If she moved up here, we'd call it the Four Bitches Bakery and we'd get along famously. If you're in Texas,
make sure you check out Simply Cakes. You want a woman with experience and knows her way around cakes? That's Robin. Any bride with a brain will get her wedding cake there. Guaranteed satisfaction.....you've got my personal word on it.
Someday, perhaps, Marla, Jewlz, and I will have drunk too much wine and decided that opening a bakery is a good idea. I'll let you know when that day comes. Then the next day we'll have sobered up.
Seriously, put the three of us together, and you are talkin' serious bakery experience and talent. We care about our stuff, and we know how to do it right. That's right, we're talkin' love here. Love is the ingredient that goes missing in larger bakeries, so we'd keep it small and keep our hands in the dough instead of just raking it in. Ha ha! Did I say raking in the dough? Seriously, I know that doesn't happen in the bakery biz. It's just a fantasy.............sigh.
There is a fourth bee-yotch out there that DID open her own place, and I've had the honor of working with her. She rocks too. If she moved up here, we'd call it the Four Bitches Bakery and we'd get along famously. If you're in Texas,
make sure you check out Simply Cakes. You want a woman with experience and knows her way around cakes? That's Robin. Any bride with a brain will get her wedding cake there. Guaranteed satisfaction.....you've got my personal word on it.
Someday, perhaps, Marla, Jewlz, and I will have drunk too much wine and decided that opening a bakery is a good idea. I'll let you know when that day comes. Then the next day we'll have sobered up.
For anyone who has accessed this blog hoping to find out info or insights on what it's like to design and decorate cakes, I'm afraid I've severely disappointed you.
But I'm burned out, remember? About the last thing I want to write about is cakes. I don't even EAT cake for that matter. But if you really want to see what I've done, and can do, you can always visit the Cake-o-rama.
However, my friend Beryl, who is not burned out (as far as I know) is not only writing about cakes, but is one of the best cake designer/stylists out there! She is also a redhead! Redheaded cake stylists rule the world, if not the entire universe. Mike McCarey is a redhead too.
See?
You MUST check out Beryl's website, Just Fabulous Pastries!
Check out her blog too! The View from the Top of the Cake!
