Cookies and Cake

I've never had such a busy week as this one.

This morning I had to go to the cake supplies shop. Traffic was dreadful and it took me over twice as long to get there and back as it usually does.

I've now decorated all the cookies. I have actually decorated 226 (I was asked for 210) and I've got 10 spare (as yet, undecorated. I intend to decorate them and give them to the printer of the little cards on the bags, as a 'thank you').

They're all bagged up.

108 have the ribbons and little card tags on them.

118 still need that part doing. I actually think that that bit takes longer than decorating them!

*sigh*

Last night I baked the anniversary cake which is being collected tomorrow. I've spent today decorating it. All I have to do is the inscription. I might see if I can do it tonight (I need the sugarpaste to set a bit first). Otherwise, I'll have to do it first thing tomorrow morning.... it's being collected at 10.30am.

Yesterday, I also covered my mum's birthday cake in marzipan. I had to cut a bit off of it, to shape it. Oh My Goodness... it's goooooooooooood (if I say so myself!). I do love rich fruit cake. And this one is delicious.

Oh, I got a phone call yesterday from the lady for whom I made the 50th wedding anniversary cake. She kept saying what an absolutely delicious cake it is – and that, in fact, when they have visitors over, if they offer their guests any, her husband glares at her because he wants to keep it all for themselves! LOL! A 5 and a 0 is a heck of a lot of cake for 2 people! But she was so thrilled with it. Her words were 'it's as good on the inside as it is on the outside'. Which is lovely to hear.

Tomorrow, I plan to pipe the inscription on the cake, first thing. Once that's gone, I'll do quite a lot of the cookie bags. Then, I want to work on my mum's cake. That's needed for Thursday. Wednesday I hope to do the last of the cookie bags by the afternoon, so that I can deliver them to my mother-in-law, where they're being collected from. I also need to start work on the Winnie-the-Pooh characters for the cakes which I'm doing for collection on Saturday. Thursday, I want to bake the two cakes for Saturday.

I think that's it.

On paper, it sounds like I'm quite organised. But I'm easily distracted!!!

The modelling of the 4 figures will take me an entire day, probably. I'm a slow worker with a limited concentration span!