Cuppies!

I love eating cuppies! I love the bright green and pinks of icing on cuppies too!

That's it for today. I just wanted to say I love eating cuppies!

What do you do on your days off?

I think about baking and new recipes and new cake designs? I huff and puff that I need a couple days off, but when I'm away from the shop what do I do? I look up new recipes, think about baking and decorating and thing about what new cake techniques I can try.

Ever since I made my first pie crust at 14 I've been hooked with baking. My first pie was apple pie. My first cake was a scratch vanilla cake my friend and I made when we cut school and went to her house (her mom was there and took out all the ingredients we needed). What a cool mom! She and I would cut out from school to study for the Regents exam. Yes, goodie two shoes!

I love baking especially in the fall and winter. And that's the time of year I love cooking as well!

ALBERT'S REVENGE!!!!

So, a few months ago we did a GA Bulldawg cake chewing up the Tenn. flag and squashing the FL. gator. This was Albert's revenge! See the little bulldog in the gator's mouth? Awwww, I feel sorry for him.

Roses & Ribbits and a Topsy Turvy Cake

I love these two cakes! The roses and ribbits is a traditional looking cake with swiss dots and buttercream roses. If you look closely you'll see frogs hiding between the flowers. Adorable!



The topsy turvy cake was a vegan, gluten free cake. Vegan gluten free cakes do not bake up very high. Even with the four layers, the cake was about three inches tall. We added a dummy cake underneath each cake to give it the height needed. All in all a fun, tasty, looking cake!

Remember the 70s and 80s when pillared cakes were all the rage? Okay, I don't either lol. This is my 3rd cake this year where brides have requested pillars. Most decide on pillars because they want the height of a big cake, but not the servings.

I'm beginning to like the pillared look. There's so many options on how to decorate in between the pillars. Flowers, fruit or how about putting delicate vines around the pillars or instead of flowers fall leaves and mini pumpkins for a fall wedding?

Lots of possibilities!

Can I have seconds?

What a great compliment when people go back for seconds adn thirds! A bride ordered two cakes for her wedding (bride and groom's cake) to serve approximately 300-350. Only about 200 rxvp'd so she thought she was going to have lots of cake left over. Well, she ahd about 20 servings left! People kept going back for seconds and thirds! What a great compliment!

I was so happy she didn't have much left over.

(The above cake was not one of them)

Mmm, that puts me in the mood for cake!

Coconut Cream Pie

What can I say? I don't get tired of baking. Cooking yes! Baking, no! I don't know what it is. I guess I love butter, cream and sugar way too much. That's not a bad thing for a baker.

My kids are not into sweets so I don't bake for my family as much as I used to unless I have company. My daughters only like pumpkin pie, while Rob will eat most any cake or pie set before him. But, what's the use in baking a whole cake or pie for two people?

I'm so glad my girls have friends who love cake and pie. When they come over it's my chance to bake again!

This was my first time making a coconut cream pie. I'm not a fan of coconut, but I wanted to give it a try. It was pretty good. I topped it with coconut flavored whipped cream. Yummy!