HOLY COW!! Hadn't been able to access my blog other than to look at it in ages!! SO sorry, I haven't forgotten you all. Google just made it in accessible forever, so sad. I have many cakes to post. I do them mostly for family now as my arthritis in my hands doesn't let me do many long term detailed projects anymore. Covid also had my eyesight do some wonderful things for quite sometime. I still have a heck of a time seeing small detailed things without taking off my glasses, makes me think I need bifocals, but the optometrist insists I do not - "I'm too young". Does anyone really blog anymore? I noticed some that I followed hadn't posted in at least five years as well. I will have to back up quite a bit with projects, but I will leave you with this Creeper cake I just did recently for my daughter's 15th birthday.

Slap My Hand

I'm sorry I haven't been doing so well at keeping my projects posted as of late. Been working much more. So here goes. This is the cake I did for our 10 Year Anniversary in August. Our theme was black and red; went funky. I stuck to the original - white cake w. strawberry preserves and whip cream filling, vanilla icing w. white chocolate shavings, and I put together a simple gerbra daisy topper. This was Madison's 5th Birthday Cake from September - Dora theme. We did a strawberry cake; turned out pretty good; with strawberry cream cheese filling. This was Stirling's Birthday Cake from November - Johnny Test theme. This was chocolate all around. This Christmas the kids did a lot of the decorating for the sugar cookies - didn't they do a great job? Hope you like sprinkles. The kids and dad made me a cake for my birthday in December too; not bad decorating for a 5 and 8 year old. I did my usual cookies for the classes for Valentine's Day but didn't take a picture as they really look the same every year. I chose a cake for us from the front of the Kraft magazine. I did; however, make everything from scratch and used their recipe really just for the idea. This was a devil's food cake w. cream cheese icing filling and iced w. the same; it has chocolate ganache on top with a few white chocolate shavings for decor. It tasted great and didn't have the enormous amounts of icing sugar or cream cheese they called for in the original recipe. I have a few more people that won gift certificates at the last Christmas concert and hope to book them soon so I can fit them into my tight schedule. I'm still trying to teach Wilton classes at a local community hall, but have had no interest to date.

Union Jack Cake

Worked on a fun little project for last years certificate winner from Stirling's Christmas concert. I think it turned out well. I don't use piping gel to do my designs typically, but thought this would be the best way to ensure the intense colour I was looking for on a small 8" cake.

Can anyone tell me why it keeps rotating my pictures as of late?? And doesn't seem to center it as I tell it to :o( Anyhow; this was one of my delicious white cakes with a simple whipped cream filling at my client's request. Still a very light and airy cake and any filling would compliment it well. I went for a very tiny shell-like border with a 3 tip. Looks off in the picture at an angle but looked great over-all and the client loved it!