April 29, 2012

Out of this world


Returning customers are the best! They make me feel that I'm doing something right, and you know, sometimes you just need that! I have had the pleasure of making the past three birthday cakes for this little  guy, and each year the theme just keeps getting better.



April 15, 2012

Back To The Basics

Happy Sunday Evening! I absolutely adore Sundays, but I have to admit that when the evening approaches and the sun begins to disappear I start to feel a little sad. Sad because that means that the weekend is pretty much over and another work week is about to begin. Not that I hate the week days, but Sunday is the only day that both my husband and I have off at the same time. Such is life :) I hope all you readers out there in blog land had a lovely weekend filled with just the right amount of sweets!

And since we are on the subject of sweets.... I have an announcement to make. Nothing big, just something I want to say nonetheless.

I have been thinking a lot about this here blog ever since someone who shall not be named (OK, it was me) accidentally erased all of her photos. I have been trying hard to go back and upload, and have gotten some put back up, but there is still much to do! So with that being said, I have also been thinking about my time in Culinary School a lot lately. I LOVED CULINARY SCHOOL!! I loved wearing my chefs coat, I loved breaking down recipes, I loved being covered in flour, kneading dough, learning from my wise instructors, and trying to pronounce all the crazy, yet important French culinary terms! (Which I just have to say, my husband is fluent in French, so I have a cheat sheet :) AND I realize now that even my instructors have been saying them wrong. HA! Take that Chefs!)  I want to get back to the basics, back to my culinary roots. I will still be making cakes, and my Etsy shop will still be up and running, but now I also want to talk more about desserts in general. I want to share more recipes, baking tips, tutorials, and I am going to try to at least post once a week. This is a big step for me, I know I am not the best blogger and I usually only post once a month if even! But this is something that I'm gonna try really hard to do, so hold me to it OK! :)


 I am proud to have been taught by some of the best! Chef Smoake and Dewitt have been on The Food Network Challenge many times. I still admire all their talent and experience.


I have a whole shelf full of cookbooks, but theses are some of my favorites, and I'll be referring back to these in many upcoming posts.



I am excited to branch out more though this blog, and yet still stick to my culinary roots!
I hope you all will join me!

Cheers