Cake, Cake, and More Cake!

Cake, Cake, and More Cake!

In the past five days I have made a wedding cake and grooms cake, a fathers day cake and four birthday cakes, and a baby shower cake. Not only am I exhausted but my kitchen looked like a 100 pound bag of powdered sugar exploded. I had contemplated taking a picture ans showing the world but then decided that it was too scary for public viewing.

I have never in my life used so many cake mixes, my wedding cake alone had 15 in it. That is 45 eggs. I was on my feet for two days straight. I could not have dont it without my stand mixer. Thanks to my wonderful family I have two Kitchen Aid mixers that are awsome. If Idid not have them I would not be making cakes. The brand that you choose does not matter, just make sure that it is heavy duty enough for large bathces of cake and icing. Decorating cakes is a tedious job and having a good mixer makes it just a bit easier. It is also good to have a hand mixer for the smaller batches of cake or royal icing.

Another thing that is good to have when decorating cakes is a dishwasher. By the time I got through with cakes on Saturday I did not have one clean dish. Poor Clay didnt even have a fork to eat lunch with and i'm not entirely sure how or why I used so many forks. And then the poor guy asked me what i was cooking for supper. If looks could have killed i would be a single girl today. I, unfortunatly, do not have a dishwasher. After having one my whole life it is quite a shock to move out and have to wash all those dished by hand. My very small kitchen that usually takes about 15 min to clean even on a bad day took 2 hours. And two days later i am a little ashamed to admit that I still have not washed all of my cake pans. (my head hung in shame)

I guess what im trying to tell all begining cake decorators, be prepared. It is never going to be as easy as you think. Allow plenty of time for mishaps, dont just assume all with go according to plan. For example, I had a cake that was being picked up in the afternoon, I had finished and had 3 hours until pick up time, which never happens for me, i went to take a shower and my dog climbed up onto my little picknick table for the kids to the high chair on to the counter and licked 1/3 of the icing off of the cake. It WAS bad, poor Daisy almost died that day! In the end all was okay and I had a new cake by the time the person got their cake,but it was stressful. So just be prepared!

Sorry no pics yet but will post some of my new cakes soon as i finish recovering from the past couple of days!