Hello everyone, back again!
Sitting here with a glass of wine in my hand (no surprise there I can hear my friends say!)
While looking through boxes of old photos, I came across some photos of cakes that I have made over the years. Most of the Birthday cakes I will share with you have been made for my children, just like other mums out there do for their kids.
I never went to College or University. I started work at 16 in a department store, but always had a passion for baking. I had no experience at all and could not afford to enrol for a baking course, so instead I bought a few learning videos on how to bake cakes (....yes back in my day we watched videos not DVDs.....) And that is how it all began.
Anyway, I started baking for fun but it became a huge passion. I just love to see the look on kids' faces when they see their cake in front of them! They have no idea of the hard work love and stress that has gone into making it......they just want to blow the candles out and eat it! But for me that is the best part.
Back when I lived in the UK, friends would ask me to bake cakes for different events, and that is how i got to learn all the different techniques needed to bake all different types of cakes. Practice makes perfect. I have had many disasters along the way, but you will be pleased to hear they won't appear on my blog as I didn't photograph them, they went straight into the bin! The finished product is so important -- you know what you want it to look like, and although I enjoy creating cakes and look forward to standing back and looking at the end result, sometimes the pressure can get to me.
Anyway, what i am trying to say is I am not a college-taught professional baker, but I bake from the heart and enjoy the pleasure my cakes bring to others.
This is a pool cake I made for my daughter's 13th Birthday.
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