The sad truth of cake baking, more of the story about a cake

Unless I am lucky enough to have time off or or the project is big enough to require time off I just work cake baking into my normal schedue and routine of things. This is one of the latter. The sad truth of cake baking and decorating is the amount of dirty dishes. So far I have actually washed a sink full or two and placed into the dishwasher what would fit, what is left you might ask?

This was taken early this morning while I was making breakfast for the dogs. What is yet to come? All of the tools from making buttercream frosting, all of the decorating . . . → Read More: The sad truth of cake baking, more of the story about a cake

Oh what Wednesday night brought for fun.

The story of a birthday cake.

Well I have this vision of a really tall cake. I don’t know why, maybe it’s because it will be “impressive”. This limits me to 10″ cake pans because I have enough of them to make many layers without washing in between. All had to be washed and dried, they sit for a long time before getting used. But look how pretty they are, I bet they last for the rest of my life.

So we need some ingredients.

, , and the seekrit ingredient

Mix er up in the kitchen aid

Then you need some pan grease to coat the . . . → Read More: Oh what Wednesday night brought for fun.

Last minute things

So I started out working on the cake I need for Carla’s Birthday, good thing I have till Saturday. Well I don’t have enough 8″ round pans and had ruled out the square due to storage and presentation issues. That means I am baking 10″ round cakes, in order to get the cake tall enough I have to get more cake mix. 🙁 After already mixing 2 and pouring into pans I run out to the grocery, hey while I am there I will TRY to get some flake salt and course salt for the cookies I am desperate to make. First of all Payless (Kroger) had the cake mix . . . → Read More: Last minute things

all about a good dinner

So today I called in sick hoping to get some extra sun time, HA! God showed me now didn’t he. Guess someone needs to protect me from myself. So I decided to get some things together for dinner and then the sun came out. So here is what we had pork chops, grilled egg plant and squashed potatoes. 🙂

For the pork chops I finely chopped (by hand!) 3 cloves of garlic, 3-4 stems of rosemary and 6 stems of thyme add a dash of salt and pepper and we are ready to roll. I drizzled some olive oil and applied this pasty substance to all sides of the pork . . . → Read More: all about a good dinner