2 Cakes

Firstly, I can't believe I didn't make a blog diary entry about last week's wedding cake.

I must do that. But not tonight... I'm tired.

Late Wednesday night, I baked the cakes for this weekend; an 'In The Night Garden' cake and a 'Deal or No Deal Box' cake.

The ITNG cake is a 10" round chocolate cake. The DOND cake was supposed to be a 9" square vanilla sponge. However, for some reason that totally escapes me now, I decided that the box wasn't quite square - that it was wider than it was deep. I've actually no idea why I thought that. But I did. So to ensure the customer still go the right number of portions, I baked a 10" square and just cake a bit off of the front. Still with me so far? However, I then decided that the cake was nowhere near tall enough... it was the 3" that my cakes usually are (and that's about a third taller than supermarket cakes!!) . But it wasn't in proportion to the box. SO yesterday, I baked another 10" squre and stacked it on top of the first cake. So at no extra cost, the customer has ended up with double the amount of cake she ordered!!! (wonder if can drop that into conversation, LOL?!)

I did the DOND box in a completely different way to the last time I made one. This time, I covered each face of the box seperately. Whereas last time, the edges were all very rounded, this has lovely crisp corners. If you look, then, yes, you can see where they join. But it really is waaaaaaaay better. I'm going to photograph it tomorrow morning. I'm really happy with it.

I've had to put a little thingy on my website saying I'm fully booked for July & August. I'm getting enquiries on a daily basis now and I'm turning away so many orders. It busts me to have to do that, LOL! But it's unbelievable the amount of enquiries I'm getting.

Anyway, before I sign off, I thought I'd post this link that Steve forwarded to me:

http://latestnews.virginmedia.com/inpictures/2008/07/04/8

Wonder if the oven was big enough to do it in one go?? LOLOL!!!!