It's Oh So Quiet....

I haven't had any new cake orders since the wedding cake. But I thought I'd add a sort of update.

I have two cake orders right after each other soon (literally - one's being picked up on the 23rd and the other is being picked up on the 24th August).

I'm going to have to plan carefully. The first one is being collected on a Thursday - and I think the party is on the Friday. So I can bake that late Tuesday evening, decorate all day Wednesday ready for collection on the Thursday. There are a couple of figures of a boy and a girl which I'll need to do a day or so in advance. The cake which is being collected on the Friday isn't needed until the Sunday, I think. But there's not much I can do... I will have to bake it on Wednesday and decorate all day Thursday and Thursday night, too. It's a 2 tier castle cake. Ideally, I'd bake a Sunday cake on a Friday, decorate Friday night and Saturday, ready for collection on Sunday morning. But customer has a 30 mile journey and 3 young children.....

After that, I've got a 50th wedding anniversary cake for early September. That's a fruit cake, which I've already baked. I 'feed' the cake weekly, by inserting a fine cake tester skewer and then generously brushing the cake with brandy! Mmmmmmmmmmmmm. I LOVE fruit cake. It's in the shape of a 50. They'll be fun to cover. I don't yet know exactly how they'll be decorated. The customer wants me to give them a couple of options and then they'll choose. I'm still thinking about it!

I've then got a 70th wedding anniversary cake - but that's quite a simple cake (simple, as in elegant!) for the 25th Sept. And on 27th Sept. it's my mummy's 65th birthday, so I've baked her a fruit cake and I'll decide how to decorate it nearer the time.

Then there's nothing until November when I have a Mr Happy cake to do.

So, that's my update.

Suzanne x