Hi again to all!  Wow, here I am, a lurker for months, then two posts in as many days.  Hope you all are ok with that.  It's pic-heavy, at least, so there's lots of fun schtuff to look at!

So, last night was very long.
I spent about 85% of it in the kitchen, and my legs and back are complaining!  I'll have to toughen up to standing for hours at a time, if I'm going to do this for a living in the future.

Today, I made two chocolate cakes (the first one was not good enough, so I regretfully dumped it in the trash - wah!), raspberry buttercream frosting, a dozen mini cupcakes decorated for a baby shower event this Wednesday (I hope they don't dry out by then!), and two full original cookie recipes for my work's cookie contest tomorrow.

For the chocolate cake, it's a commissioned piece that's to emulate a wedding cake top (i.e. rolled fondant icing), in dark chocolate and raspberry flavour, with white fondant.  I've never done a wedding cake before, so it's been a learning experience.  I hope I don't go insane trying to get the fondant to roll properly for me tomorrow.  I made the raspberry flavouring myself, and it's pretty damn good if I do say so!  It coloured the buttercream icing perfectly, a beautiful pink, which will be going in the two middle layers.  I also "marinated" the three layers with the rest of the raspberry coulis, heated up and watered-down, which I hope will keep them from being dry.  It's wrapped up in the fridge, stabilizing for tomorrow's fondant fun.  I'll post pics later when it's complete.









Let me know if anyone tries these recipes, and how they work for you.