Process of Anniversary Cake

Day one: Wednesday, I baked 3 of the cakes, 10,8 and 6 inch..I froze them, just to see how it would work. I've had a lot of people tell me that freezing cakes makes them super moist.. but, I didn't get to taste the cake after it had been frozen, but the client and the party enjoyed it. =) So for my next cake(s), I will be freezing them, it saves a lot of time making the cakes in advance. I also made some of the flowers that day, to see how they turned out so I could make adjustments. Day two. Thursday.. I made the other cakes, 10,8 and 6 inch again.. then two 12x18 cakes. . that took 50 cups of batter. .a lot..lol. then I made the fondant, 3 batches of it. Such a messy thing but always turns out great. I filmed me making the fondant.. so I will be posting that later. . Also made the rest of the flowers.. filmed that as well. Such an easy flower to make. I'm not quite sure if it has a name.but it's pretty..=)
Then day 3. Friday. . The most work was this day. Made God knows how many batches of butter cream, and creamchesse filling. . I frosted each tier, covered with fondant. and the decorated with the flowers. Doesn't sound like much.but it sure was =) Then the sheet cake was a little bit of a challenge, but managed well to get that covered with fondant. . I made the "40" cake topper out of chocolate. Printed out a 40 and layed wax paper over it. and just filled it in with chocolate. I've done this b4 with success, but my client called yesterday and said that it fell off before they got to the party. :( which was the only thing that went wrong. I'm not quite sure what happened, either a bump, to hot in the car, or I just didn't secure it enough. So next time I will make it thicker. .I think that will help =)
Then Saturday, my half day, I got up early before she came to pick up the cake, and wrote on the sheet cake and added some more flowers I made the previous day. Also added some leafs to go along with the flowers.

Over all, after 3 and a half days of working on the cakes I have to say I am pretty happy with how they turned out =)

Anniversary Cake

I can't keep track of how many fondant cakes I've made, but I'm guessing..that this was my 12th? I'm not quite sure.. but either way I had a blast making this cake order. =) The tiered cake is a 10,8 and 6 inch.. and the sheet cake is a 12x18. . that thing weighed a ton! lol.. I do apologize tho because I was supposed to film myself making it.. but I got busy and wasn't able too. But I was able to film the recipe for the cake, fondant, and the flowers. .. .So I will be posting those later. =)



Thanks.

.Ashley.

Cookies

Chocolate Mint Cookies =)

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chocolate-Mint-Candies-Cookies/Detail.aspx

They were a big hit with my dads employees.

Thanks for Watching. . =)

How To Make Gum Paste

First attempt at a Tutorial. =) Needed Gumpaste for the flowers I am making for the cake. . When filming yourself, you are more aware of what you are doing, and wanting to do everything perfect. . It will help when I film the decoration of the cake =)

Preparing Supplies

Well I have my 2nd cake order due this week, and My biggest so far. Its a 3 tier, with a sheet cake. The tier will be a 10,8,and 6 inch. Then the sheet cake is 12x18. Yikes.I have done a 2 tier before but this will be my first time for a 3 tier. Yesterday I went and got everything, and holy cow.. was it a lot...

I need 50 cups of batter, 44 cups of icing and then 15 cups of filling.. I really hope im doing my math right. cause I just got
-25+lbs of powdered sugar.
-60 eggs
-8 boxes of cake flour
-10lb regular sugar
-48oz. Crisco
-15lbs of butter.

If i didn't so my math right. I'm going to have A LOT of left overs...
And now on top of that cake(s). My brothers birthday is saturday and I'm making his cake too.. But dont think im complaining..haha. . Cause this is what I love to do..It can and will be stressfull, but it's so worth it. Tomorrow I start with the gumpaste flowers =) If anyones reading this..thank you! =)

Beginning

Well If I'm going to start a blog I guess I better start. =)

My name is Ashley, I am 18 years old. Have a passion for baking, and am going into culinary school Fall 2010. I bake a lot, like probably too much. Some friends/family have suggested making a blog and I didn't think much of it but after a while, I decided it might be a good idea, and give it a shot

I bake everything from cookies to eclairs, or napoleons, and even fondant cakes. Which is something I really enjoy. I have made about 10 fondant cakes. Trying to improve each time. So with that said, this blog is going to be about..baking.. and lots of it. I will try to make videos of me baking, decorating ect. but we'll just have to see how this goes. =)