2014 Winter

2014 Winter and early Spring

2014 March: Flourless chocolate cake with chocolate glaze, white chocololate lettering, disco dust, and rainbow nonpareil

2014 March: Disco dust is edible glitter, in case you were wondering. It settled into the glaze perfectly, giving the appearance of a monolayer just below the surface.

2014 Lindsay's Starwars Birthday Cake: This was a bit of a last minute on-a-whim affair. The rapid baking and assembly left little time for making chocolate pieces, so I pulled out possibly the most pre-made/ store bought pieces I've used in a few years. The lightsabers are actually meant for cupcakes, but the anchoring plastic pieces are easily removed. Lots of fun, fairly quick, and it was well received.

2014 Lindsay's Starwars Birthday Cake

End of  2013: Sea Kayaking: Technically this is a 2013 cake, but it marked the start of my willingness to try MORE new things and trying to make the cake a picture rather than sticking random pieces with a vague theme onto a cake and calling it a day. Chocolate cake, dark chocolate filling and butter cream frosting. The seaweed, sea life, lettering, kayak and paddle are all made of chocolate. The sand is actually crushed up heath bar bits, squished into the butter cream. 

End of  2013:Sea Kayaking: Made as a holiday gift for a local kayaking school and shop, where I spent plenty of time during the summer. The instructors are skilled, patient, funny, and like cake.

2014 January Birthdays: For coworkers with January birthdays, as the cake itself suggests. Chocolate cake, butter cream filling and frosting, chocolate decorations, sugar penguins, and some matte disco dust to make it look frosty.

2014 January Birthdays: Cleaner edges, multi-step chocolate work, and overall cleaner look! It is satisfying to see my work improving over time in a real, tangible way. It's nothing close to what professional bakers create, but it's loads of fun and even the cake wrecks taste good.

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