Well folks, I realize it’s only October 21, but I’ve got a busy end of the year this year!
1. POSSIBLY making a gingerbread house for the Saskatoon Festival of Trees…I’ve never made a real gingerbread house from scratch and I’m going to have to test it out before I sign up! But if I do it, that will keep me busy in the beginning of November!
2. DEFINITELY going on a trip to Washington DC to see my friend Preston (who I made the fossil cake for this summer)! I’ll be gone for almost 2 weeks at the end of November/beginning of December! I’m very excited to see as much of DC as I can and I also get to go to Carnegie Hall in New York!
3. Christmas. Enough said.
4. My mom’s wedding! My mom is getting married on Boxing Day and along with helping her execute her wedding plans, I’m also making her wedding cake.
So all that being said, I will not be taking any more cake orders for 2011. I have way too much on the go, and as most of you probably know, Sugar Bites isn’t my “real job”. I work full time at PrimeWest Mortgage and the cake thing is just in my spare time…which I won’t really have for the rest of 2011!
I will post the gingerbread house if that actually works out and I will definitely post mom’s wedding cake!
For now I’ll leave you with some links to a couple of my very first cakes:
Super Six Cake – This was really one of my VERY FIRST decorated cakes. I’m still pretty proud of it. I was JUST learning how to work with fondant. In fact, the superhero logos may have been the first things I made outside of class out of fondant. It was also my first lesson in transporting cakes and building custom shapes and what NOT to do. It all turned out great in the end though!
Big Comfy Cake – This was my VERY FIRST funky shaped cake. I’m still very proud of it! It was also a lesson in fondant and cake stability and learning that it’s actually OKAY to throw away cake scraps. It was also my first attempt at gum paste figures. I think I’ve come a long way and learned NOT to use Wilton gum paste (it dries WAY too fast) and learned how much colour it actually takes to make red haha.
I hope you enjoy looking back to 2008 with me. And I hope you have a lovely Fall and Christmas! I’ll try and post again this year, but if I don’t…happy New Year!
Megan
