Daily Archives: Saturday, January 24, 2009

So here’s a story for you cake-lovers – I was hired to make a baby shower cake for someone at work as part of a surprise shower.  I had training that week, so I couldn’t go and had to send my delivery boy (aka hubby) in my place.  This shower had been planned for months, and everything was planned to a tee. When hubby showed up to drop off the cake, what did he discover?  The mother-to-be was out sick … Continue reading →

I should note that whenever there are ugly cake pictures on here, it’s because hubby wasn’t home to take them.  Any tips on good cake photography? A coworker asked me to bake a cake for her daughter’s 1st birthday.  Not being a mother myself, I never thought that babies need special cake ingredients – think I grew up on regular sugar and flour and I turned out…fine.  Anyway, she had a recipe for a baby-friendly carrot cake, but all the … Continue reading →

Since today is a lazy Saturday, I decided I need to desperately start catching up on my posts. Halloween this year coincided with a great Philly victory – the Phillies won the World Series!  In tribute, I carved a pumpkin (it’s not blurry, I was afraid to carve them any straighter for fear of pumpkin implosion): Makes me happy.  I carved this with some small dremel bits. Tip: CARVE OUTSIDE!  And wear clothes you don’t care about, or that can be … Continue reading →