The Rabbit.

I know, I haven’t  blogged in a while. They’re going to take away my blogger lisence.

I have really great news though! I sold my first cake!

Honestly, I wasn’t prepared. On a whim, I made a cake for rehersal for the play I’m producing. I brought it in, everyone loved it, and one of the actors asked me if I could make a cake for a baby shower. Turns out, the woman having a baby is a caterer, who doesn’t do baked goods. She’s interested in doing a partnership with me, and the friend who asked me to bake (who is a professional photographer)

Within a couple of weeks, I had the perfect recipes and some business cards made up – which means I picked a name for my bakery – Nom Nom.

In case you were wondering, here is a couple of pictures of the cake -

I woke up that morning and started on it at 6am. I didn’t stop till I passed the cake off around 9pm.

It’s two ten inch round chocolate cakes on the bottom, topped with two eight inch rounds of chocolate cake on top. I layered it with creme de menthe milk chocolate ganache, and used that as the crumb coat. Then I covered the whole thing in dark chocolate valrona ganache. The truffles I made too, with the valrona chocolate and dusted them with luster dust in green and silver (the colors for the shower).

To top it all off, I dusted cocoa powder on it, and put some chocolate shavings. Man.. that must have been one rich and tasty cake.

Today I made a strawberries and cream cake (homemade whipped cream!) I’ll post pics later if I get around to it.

Om nom nom nom nom.