When I was 17 years old, I fell head over heels in love with my manager at work. He was much older than me and I was pretty young and naive. I figured if the way to a man's heart was through his stomach then I must learn to bake. I followed this man around like a lost puppy with cakes, and pies and cookies-- whatever my daily creation, made just for him. He ignored me! Can you imagine-- I was hot! BUT I kept on stalking him. To make a long story short, when I turned 21, I returned home after a few years in college; we started dating and finally when I was 24 we got married. When I moved in with my new husband who had been a bachelor for, well he was never married and 36 years old... I had to clean out all the "man junk" and make room for my girlie stuff. In this process, I found a birthday card we (his co-workers) had given him when he turned 30. I had signed it, "Ernie, I wish you would start subtracting years so that we could meet in the middle and get married. Love, Kristan". I was 17 years old. So, whether my cake stalking was successful in winning my husband is still left in the air for debate-- he doesn't remember me other than as "jailbait". BUT I did win him in the end, SOOOO, something must have worked-- Now he loves my baking!
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Thursday, December 3, 2009
This is a baby shower cake for a couple at our church. It is my own design and one that was an oops at that. The tie died look was in effort to fix a bad choice. Imagine the cakes stacked. I will try to get a picture of the final product on Sunday when it is stacked..
This was a cake I just finished and it is the first time I have ever used the whipped icing. This is not easy to work with. It is like decorating with whipped cream or cool whip. It doesn't hold it's shape really well. The pictures on the cake match the nursery decor. Check it out if you like.
