OK, so about 6 months ago I set up this blog space and then proceeded to completely ignore it...not even one single post. Now I have resolved to make it a priority!
I won't bore you with my thoughts on what I want from this blog, or even what I want to write about - since I'm not completely sure what that will be. This will be a journey for me and I'll be chatting about whatever I think is interesting...most certainly there will be cakes! Now on to my thoughts for today.
My first cake of the year was a birthday cake for a customer who's daughter is turning 18. She asked for a colorful cake and her daughter loves cats. Upon further investigation I discovered that our birthday girl received two grey kittens as a gift. That was the entirety of the instructions from the customer... of course, I also had to know how many guests it needed to serve as well as flavors but you know what I mean.
I love it when the customer gives me a short briefing about the recipient and a few ideas and lets me run with the design. All of my most popular cakes have been cakes that I designed this way. When working with a cake designer let us know what is important to you - what must be incorporated into the design and then let us do our job...design the cake!
One word of warning - there are many cake decorators out there who are not cake designers, so make sure you know who you're working with!
Until the next time, be kind to each other and have the sweetest of days :)
