Since my last post I have successfully moved to Washington state. The pace of life is a little faster over here and there is a lot more congestion than Iowa. I do like the scenery change from cornfields and cows to pine trees and mountains. I haven't done too much traveling in Washington, but I look forward to all the future explorations to come. My new job is going well and I am learning a lot. So far I have had the opportunity to travel to Seattle to see the new tunneling project, see the floating bridges up close and even travel all the way to the eastern part of the state to Spokane, WA. The next two years of my training will go by way too fast, but I look forward to what I will learn and where I will end up.
As far as my cake business goes, I will continue to take orders as they come in. So far since I have moved here, I have made 6 cakes and 2 cupcake orders. My co-workers are keeping me busy with cakes!
Prior to moving to Washington, I made graduation cupcakes for my ISU graduation party. On May 11, 2013 I officially graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. While it may have taken me 6 years to get my degree, it was worth it. The following pictures are my cupcakes from the party. The flavors were red velvet with cream cheese frosting and chocolate with buttercream. The graduation caps were a mini Reese's cup topped with a Ghirardelli chocolate square and an orange tassel (engineering tassels are orange).
As far as my cake business goes, I will continue to take orders as they come in. So far since I have moved here, I have made 6 cakes and 2 cupcake orders. My co-workers are keeping me busy with cakes!
Prior to moving to Washington, I made graduation cupcakes for my ISU graduation party. On May 11, 2013 I officially graduated from Iowa State University with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. While it may have taken me 6 years to get my degree, it was worth it. The following pictures are my cupcakes from the party. The flavors were red velvet with cream cheese frosting and chocolate with buttercream. The graduation caps were a mini Reese's cup topped with a Ghirardelli chocolate square and an orange tassel (engineering tassels are orange).
My sister decided to host her baby shower the same day as my graduation party, so I made the cupcakes for her as well. It was a busy day of cupcake making.
The first cake I made since arriving in Washington was for a co-worker moving to Chicago, IL. My co-worker, Yamilee, is a big fashionista, so I themed the cake after a Louis Vuitton pattern for fashion and made it look like a suitcase. I added "stickers" to the cake to make it look like a traveler's suitcase. The cake flavors were red velvet and carrot cake.
The next cake I made was for my co-worker's granddaughter, Sophia. The cake is themed after the Disney show Sofia The First's logo. I modified the logo to change the name to Sophia instead of Sofia and added a 3 into the crown for her age. Some noted features of the cake are the hand-quilted texture on the purple background of the logo and the hand-placed pearls throughout the cake. The cake was chocolate with pink buttercream frosting. I added sparkles to make the cake pop.
The next cake is a female version of a previous cake I made. I had previously made a Mickey Mouse cake with a present and this time I made a Minnie mouse version. My co-worker's daughter loves her Minnie Mouse toy, so I decided to replicate that toy in cake. This cake included a little bit of structure for the head so it didn't come off during transportation. The cake was white cake with raspberry filling. My co-worker's 2 year old loved the cake.
The next cake was made for the 2013 Threadcakes contest. I chose a design that looked like the game Bioshock. It took me 30 hours over 5 days to make the cake. To view my entry on Threadcakes click this link.
The next cake was made for my co-worker's father's 92nd birthday. Every year my co-worker would always buy a store-bought cake and would write the Chinese longevity symbol on it. This year I got to make the cake! My co-worker gave me a few designs to choose from, and I chose this one. I liked this design because of the detailing. I used my handy dandy x acto knife to cut out the Chinese symbol. The 'lotus' flowers were made using a tear-drop shaped cutter and a veiner. The cake flavor was yellow cake with buttercream frosting.
The next cake and cupcakes were made for yet another co-worker. This time was for my co-worker's niece's birthday. Her nickname is bug, so the cake and cupcakes had a ladybug theme. I made a 6 inch cake and 24 cupcake. The cake was half chocolate and half vanilla with green buttercream frosting. I made fondant daisies, ladybugs and leaves to decorate the cake and cupcakes.
The last cake I made were zombie cupcakes for my co-worker's nephew. I made chocolate cakes with chocolate frosting. For the decoration, I crumbled chocolate cake crumbs to look like dirt, made fondant tombstones and a fondant hand. I definitely got my practice in hand-molding each hand...
Well looks like I'm all caught up on my latest cakes....whew! I don't have too many cakes lined up in the next few months, so I might take some time and enjoy the Washington scenery....