The beginning of something wonderful!

So this weekend I sold my FIRST cake. It was amazing! It felt as if I should have been doing it all my life (not the baking thing, because of been doing that, but the selling thing). I loved the feeling of pride as I showed my friend the cake. I'm almost always proud of what I make (I admit, there have been duds!) but this was a different pride, because I was actually being recognized for my abilities. Someone was willing to pay for something I'd made. CRAZY.

One of my coworkers needed a cake for her husband's birthday and since I am always bringing in treats for everyone to snack on she asked me to make it. She decided ona dark chocolate cake with caramel buttercream in between the layers and mocha buttercream on the outside. So I started Saturday morning, baking the cake. I decided to make it extra special by cutting the three layers into six. That meant A LOT of buttercream which I made in the afternoon. I was pretty nervous about decorating, because as my friends can atest I am more of a 'if it tastes good who cares if it looks good' kind of person. I mean, I'm not going to give you a fug cake, but I'm definitely not artistically inclined either. So I stuck with a simple decoration around the top and bottom border.

Now let's get to the nitty gritty of the cake...

Snickerdoodle Blondies

I started searching food blogs, foodbuzz, and foodgawker at the beginning of the year. I guess you could say it was my new year resolution to find recipes that I thought were interesting and bake them. One of the first blogs that I stumbled upon, and fell in love with, was Brown Eyed Baker. Her recipes were simple, in the sense that I felt I could make them on a whim without the end result being disastrous. And every recipe that I have tried has been amazing.

Hello Blogosphere

This will be my first post EVER. I'm sure it won't be as witty as some of the other blogs you're currently perusing, but hopefully my spunky personality will make you want to come back and see what kind of treats I'm baking up.

Let me give you a little background on who you will be reading about:

I am currently taking pastry classes at my local college and I am determined to open up a late-night bake shop, of which my city is in dire need! It's not going to be for a few years because, let's face it, the economy sucks and I barely have two pennies to rub together (I definitely have to overage notices to rub together, but that's another story.) So at the end of next spring I will have, hopefully, passed my pastry classes with flying colors and will be well on my way to opening a storefront.

Until then, I bake anything and everything out of my small kitchen. I've gotten a few orders for different confections, in fact next week I'll be making a dark chocolate cake for one of my coworkers, recipe and pictures to come!