My new favorite, taken by Evelyn

we painted...

The green goes into the kitchen as well and on the wall behind the stove and all the cabinets. we plan to paint the other downstairs walls a neutral tan color.

Finally! Last year I bought a bunch of 4" deep cake pans. Instead of baking two seperate layers for the cakes I'm doing the cake in one pan and swirling in the filling to the batter before baking. It's very yummy this way, but those pans are a pain! You may think you'd just bake them longer, but no, if only it was that simple. I have to turn the oven temp way down, and bake for hours. I figured out the 4", 6", and 8" pan, but that 10" was eluding me. The cake keep falling, the batter overflowing, after many tries and lots of wasted cake, I was going to give up and go back to my 2" layers.

But finally i did it!! It only took 2 tries this time. 2.5 hours of baking each time. But look! a 4" cake, evenly baked throughout. This is a white cake with raspberry swirl. The center looks different because I have to use a baking core so the center heats evenly with the side. Then I have to take the cake from the core piece and plug the hole.

Now to try the 12" pan...

Sledding!

Well, we gave into the wintery fun and went sledding. I can't remember the last time I was sledding, probably many many years ago. We only had to go to 3 different stores to find a sled. We'd planned to go up to American Fork canyon to sled, but after getting home from the cake delivery, and watching President Hinckleys funeral, and needing to be home to feed the missionaries dinner tonight, we decided to just find a place in town. So we ended up at Centennial Park on a small hill, jsut right for the kids. It was so fun! And exhausting. The kids loved it and are now sleeping peacefully thanks to burning up all that energy climbing back up the hill.

Jens Cake

Annie (my cousin Phil's wife) refered me to a friends of hers for a wedding cake. Thanks Annie!!! I really appreciate all of you that are telling your friends and family about my cakes. I love getting more experience, expecially with wedding cakes. I think it may be time for a new camera, again. Maybe we are just to rough on them, or maybe its time to get Parker his own so he doesn't want to use ours all the time. Now almost all our pics are coming out blurry. But I did get a few pics of the cake today. I'm beggining to think I should take a floral arranging class so when I set up cakes I know what I'm doing when the bride hands me a pile of flowers and wants me to arrange them on the cake for her. :) Its actually kinda fun to do, and I think I'm getting a little better at it. But it does take more time than just dropping off the cake so I think I might start charging more for it, or just for my cakes in general. I don't know. How much did you guys pay for your wedding cakes? How big were they? I think my prices are pretty good, expecially since I don't have tons of expreince, but I keep getting told I'm cheaper than anyone else so maybe thats a bad thing. Maybe people will wonder whats wrong with my cakes if I'm charging so much less than everyone else.

I need some help here. Take a look at my cake site and let me know what you think about my prices will ya? Considering I've only been doing this for a year now, but most customers don't know that. And that it cost a whole lot more to make a cake that big than most people seem to think it does, not to mention tons of time. So I want your honest opinion on what I'm charging, too much, too little, just right? Thanks for your help!! The goal is to make enough that I can afford to get licensed and be legal (always helps ;)) but not be overwhelmed by too many cakes that I can't spend time with my boys. And to have enough to pay for more classes and tools as needed. Anyways, sorry for the rambling, heres the pics.