light cake

If someone were to offer you a cake that had no fat or calories would you take it?
Well I mentioned yesterday that one of the girls at work is having a birthday this Saturday so I made her a cake. I left out all the fat and calories and decorated it with little pink roses since that's her favorite color. I even made a special box for her cake. She's turning all of 19 but I only have one candle on the cake.

I wonder if she'll share?
If you haven't seen these before, they are made using the battery operated tea lights. You just glue on the paper and decorate. I thought they were the cutest thing. Thanks to Ann Martin from All things paper I learned how to make the folded roses which are the perfect size to fit on these cakes.
So this was project #6 that I was talking about. Tonight I may be taking off from blog reading so that I can work on finishing the other thing I'm making for her. I'll catch up with all of you on the weekend.

There is no happy medium

I go to work and either I don't have enough things to do and the day drags on forever because I'm trying to fill it with mundane tasks. or I'm overloaded with work and there aren't enough hours in the day. Today was one of those days that I could have used a few extra hours. Aside from all the breads and rolls I had to bake today I had 2 cakes that were ordered for 1:00. There apparently was a huge cookie craving going on in our town last night too, because just about all the cookies were gone off the shelves. I baked a mere 26 dozen cookies this morning. I also had my weekly order to take care of and start working on my inventory. (we do inventory every other week)
I took pictures of the cakes I did. This one didn't turn out too bad.


This one though, didn't turn out quite how I pictured it in my mind. They said they wanted a tie dyed 60's theme cake. I can somehow see this one turning up on the cake wrecks blog...lol The woman who picked it up though thought it was really cool and she said that the girl would love it. Either I didn't do so bad after all or she was just being REALLY nice. This is what happens when people allow my imagination to run wild with their cakes. If they would just come in and tell me exactly what they want I don't get the opportunity to experiment.