Lovely Commission

A customer's just collected a cake and it was such a joy to make.

She's a foster carer and had a little girl in her care for 10 months, since she was a couple of days old. The baby is now with adoptive parents, but they very much want to keep the foster carer as part of the little girl's life.

The foster carer told the adoptive parents that she would like to provide the first birthday cake.

She told me that too much is not enough, LOL!! She wants a BIG cake, with lots of pink, lots of lilac, lots of hearts and lots and lots of edible glitter!!!

So the cake was 15" in length and sat upon a board that was 24" (yes, 2 foot!!) long. She really wanted to incorporate two of my cake designs - the number 1 that I frequently do and the building blocks cake that I made for my niece's 1st birthday in 2003 (http://www.patacake-parties.com/Emily's%20building%20blocks%20cake.jpg) so we decided to do blocks of sugarpaste, instead of more cake.

It was a b*gger to get those building blocks done. I'm going to have to come up with some other way to get perfect cubes. The ones I did were OK. But they weren't all perfect cubes and not completely identical in size. I spent, literally, hours doing the building blocks. You'd never think it! I got to bed at 1.30am and then still had to do the inscription this morning and make the teddy bear!

Still, she was thrilled with it when she collected it and at the end of the day, that's all that matters to me.

Suzanne x