Friday, November 27, 2009

Cake Dreams

This past month I've been a volunteer several fondant cake classes at Orson Gygi. Christina Miller taught the class and did a great job. Although I was just the "help", I learned a lot and now am very excited about making and decorating cakes. This has been a strange departure from my normal range of baking. I have always been more of a pie & pastry enthusiast than a cake one, but decorating cakes has allowed me to tap into any creative artistry that has more or less lain dormant all these years.
I now lay in bed at night and think of cake. I think of excuses to make them, and how to decorate them. I dream of fondant. I peruse the classifieds for used bakery equipment. I think I'm making my family crazy.

This is a cake I did for my sister-in-law Jerrea's parents' 50th wedding anniversary. It was my first "tiered" cake and was a lot of fun to do.

This cake was for Jessica's birthday. She served an LDS mission to Hong Kong, so I wanted to do something Chinese-themed.


This was a last minute birthday cake for Emily. I had a leftover tier from another cake I dried to replicate her cute wedding colors of green and pink.


This was my very first fondant cake made for my sister Laura's birthday. Go Utes!

6 comments:

Jessica said...

Seriously, those cakes are amazing! YOu really are very talented. How do you do it with the kids around? I would be a wreck..."Don't talk to me, I'm making fondant!" YOu really should go into business. It would be fun and fruitful!

amanda said...

Those are awesome! I am so impressed. People pay a lot of money for cakes that good. :)

Laura Chamberlain said...

The U cake was the best! mmmm!

Adventurous Housewife said...

Looks to me like we should call you the Cake Boss! Your cakes rock.

Organized Chaos said...

I cannot believe it! I knew you could do it. This is a whole new world of possibilities for you! Just fabulous!

Jasmin Patel said...

Love the cakes. Esp the Asian themed one! I've never seen anything like it