OT picture of wedding cake

You do very beautiful work Linda!:>)

Hi Linda, I must say that you do fabulous work!! Did you go to school to become a cake chef?? Where do you work from? Do you own a business? I am very curious. God Bless, Dorothy in NY PS: Are all those cakes made with buttercream or whip cream?

Not only are MOST of ya'll in here gifted, master crafters, but cooks and bakers too --aaaahhhhhh!!!

(knowing the dr and I are GONNA have a bout!)

Wow very pretty Linda and bet it was quite tasty too!

OKC Dave

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Wow the cake turned out really beautiful. You sure have a great talent for cake decorating.

Lynne

Hi Dorothy. Thanks for the compliment! No I didn't go to school to learn decorating or baking! Unless you count the "school" of on the job training and various persons who have taught me things through the years. I started decorating just playing around with a DIY Wilton kit my mom purchased. I think I was 18. I was working in a restaurant as a cook/caterer/dessert maker, and the lady I worked for was instrumental in training me for baking, cooking, and I owe a lot to her for believing in my talents in the kitchen! :-) I now work in a grocery store bakery as my full time job, and I make wedding cakes at home on the side. We didn't used to offer wedding cakes from our bakery and I would get some of my at home business by giving a customer my card, and they would contact me at home after my work hours. we offer them at work now, but it is a very limited program. I use buttercream icing for all my cakes. At work we do both kinds of icing.

Linda

thanks Dave..sorry to hear about your stomach problems! When you get your tummy problem(s) solved, think of all the yummy things you can eat!

Thanks Lynne! There are so many levels of cake decorating and I try to learn as much as I can!

What awesome cakes you make. Almost makes me wish that I lived near you and were getting married! LOL Oh and that I wans't on this low carb diet!!!

M-C

The cake is beautiful Linda. I love the periwinkle color. I also like the cake topper they chose, it is so pretty.

Linda that is a beautiful cake!! I looked at all your cakes and am just in awe! After my mess with my DS #2's birthday cake today, you wouldn't even let me in the door! LOL

He wanted a chocolate cake, marshmallow filling and chocolate frosting. Okay, no problem. I get home from work this morning, make the cake; notice as I'm pouring the batter into the layer pans that it looks a little light for choco cake. Pull it out when it's done, let them cool a little then remove them from the pans. I broke one layer trying to turn it over. Okay, no problem, that's why we have frosting; to "glue" the broken layer back together. Right? So after they cooled I get out the cake plate put the broken layer on the bottom, after "gluing" it back together. Notice that it won't go back together as there is a piece missing out of the bottom of it. Where did it go? I knew I could fill in the hole in the top with frosting so we (DH and I) sampled the cake, I didn't add enough cocoa so it's not chocolately. Then I realize that I can't spread the marshmallow fluff on the broken layer so I take it off, put the whole layer on the plate. Then I spread out the marshmallow fluff. Hey this is going to work!! I then put the broken layer back on, gluing and filling in with frosting where needed. Turn around to answer DS #2's question and in the middle of answering he says, "uh Mom, (pointing behind me) is it supposed to do that?!" I turn around and the 3 pieces had slide off the bottom layer. ROFL I then pushed them back on, they slid off again! I got out a bowl that was big enough to hold the cake, pushed the pieces back up again, picked up both layers and set it in the bowl. Made the chocolate frosting, frosted it and covered it up! LOOKS AWFUL!!!!!!!!!

I then went and sat on DH lap, he asked what was wrong I told him about the cake. I didn't want to serve it to our parents tonight! He asked what he could do to make it better. "Tell me to go to TCBY and buy Daniel an ice-cream cake." Okay honey, why don't you go get Daniel an ice-cream cake.

I was supposed to make the boy supper tonight, but after my cake failure I told him I couldn't face another, we just ordered pizza!

Linda, I'm so impressed with your talent!

Poor Kenda! Sounds like you had a time of it! So did he feel special nonetheless? Bet he did. You guys are great parents!

M-C

Oh wow Linda! It looks beautiful, and very very yummy. Not only you a gifted scrapper, you're a gifted cake decorator!

Oh goodness Kenda! Poor you. I bet DS had a great birthday anyways since he has such great parents. (Remind me to tell you about my mom's "Never-Fail-No-Matter-What Carrot Cake".)

Kenda, My grandmother couldn't make a cake worth a darn (she was a fantastic pie maker though). Her sister made wedding cakes and coudn't make pies. Whenever my grandmother made us a cake she used a recipe where the icing cooked in the bottom of the cake and when she turned it out after baking the icing was on top. If the cake fell apart she put it in bowls and put a glob of whipped cream on top and called it 'dump cake.' We didn't care - it was great!!! I'll have to use that recipe in a swap. Sandy

What great cakes! I looked at the pictures of all of the cakes. You have some neat designs (the m&m wedding, pizza). Too cute! Do you deliver to upstate NY? LOL!

Chrissy

Kenda, forgive me for chuckling a bit....as kids we use to LOVE the "flops"! That meant we could eat it secretly while Mom attempted again! Always was a lot fun.

Judy, SA

Kenda, I love the cake story!! I am not very good at cake baking either. I think I used to be,though. It's just too easy to buy the mix.

Linda, Your cakes look wonderful! I now have to send my DH to the bakery, I am drooling over your beautiful goodies!

Poor Kenda! We had a disaster like that with my grandparent's Golden Wedding cake... my mother baked an apricot cake and it turned out nice enough, but then she made up a cream-cheese frosting and when she put the cake together the frosting was very runny... so we were carrying it to grandma's in the car and as soon as we went around the first corner the top slid off the cake and broke! It just has to be a super special occasion cake that fails doesn't it...

And Linda, your cakes are all gorgeous! I'm sure you don't have any disasters...