tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60113834824322200572024-03-13T10:19:12.112-05:00simplysarahsimonSarah Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021514478951181534noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6011383482432220057.post-81353597032459831692011-07-02T18:23:00.000-05:002011-07-02T18:23:50.745-05:00green spatulaI'm not good at plants. My husband and I have started an herb garden...several times. I forget to water them, or I over water them. I recently discovered that there is an easier way to bring plants into our home. Cake! While I don't have a green thumb, I do have a green spatula!<br />
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When I was asked by a friend to do a cake for a bachelorette party, I'll be honest, I got a little nervous. This is a <strong><em>family</em></strong> blog! No worries, they didn't want anything too scandalous. <br />
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Graduations always bring back fun memories of former classes and classmates. And naturally, I pulled out college and high school yearbooks and had a few laughs. And then it hit me! All the notes in said yearbooks were the best part. "Have a great life" and the more personal full page notes in bright pink ink from the BFF were the epitome of graduation. What if you could do that same thing with a cake? YOU CAN, all thanks to food color markers. :)<br />
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May is a month full of celebrations! (and I have so many cakes to show you!) But let's start with the most important...Mother's Day! My mom has always been my biggest fan. I was a cheerleader in high school and I'm pretty sure my mom was cheering for the cheerleaders louder than we were cheering for the actual team. Lately, her "cheering" comes in the form of comments to my posts. However, she is having issues posting comments lately, so each time I post something new she calls in her "comment" to make sure I know she has one. <br />
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Mom, you truly are the greatest! Thanks for being my best friend!<br />
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The season of showers is upon us! Noting says congratulations on your upcoming life change (be it babies or marriage) like bite sized portions of delicious foods arranged on fancy trays, creative juice concoctions served in a bowl with floating chunks of fruit and ice, groups of women playing make-a-fool-of-yourself games, and CAKE!<br />
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Turns out! Adding someone new to the family dynamic is the coolest thing ever! No, they don't get the jokes...but we get to relive their creation by explaining their origin! No, they don't know all our movies...but we don't mind watching them again! And if we ever need to have a sibling-to-sibling secret conversation...sha-bam, password protected. <br />
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So my new brother-in-law adds a lot more to our family than your normal brother-in-law...he's from another country! He has a whole bucket load of other country things to bring to the table. Good things: He's got good jokes, good foods, he and my sister will have the cutest kids, he speaks another language, the list goes on. Bad things: because he speaks another language he is somehow uncommonly good at MadGab...the "boys team" now has a secret weapon. <br />
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Random facts: He speaks spanish, but did not grow up in Mexico. And as it turns out, not all Spanish speeking countries are taco eating countries. As a small joke, we celebrated his birthday last week with a taco cake!<br />
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Now the site has a new look!...and a new purpose! <span style="font-family: inherit;">Not too long ago, I decided to start a blog. The purpose was to document and share my cake adventures and maybe make a few extra bucks along the way. O</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">ctober, November, December, January, February...I was having a blast! We did make a little extra cash...but my hesitancy to overly charge my friends and family ultimately kept the profits low. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">And now a change of heart. I have a job, my husband has a job, we live in a very small, very cheep apartment. Was this extra money really doing anything? My closet might answer yes...but I'm going to say no. I was really challenged to use my talents for something bigger than just a new blouse. So, I'm turning the blog into a glorified bake sale for the world...for the brokenhearted, the downtrodden, the orphans, the widows, and the needy. Beginning March 2011 donations will be made based on the month's cake profits to prayerfully considered individuals or organizations.</span><br />
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What can one cake do? You'd be surprised. Check out the new <a href="http://www.simplysarahsimon.com/p/what-can-one-cake-do.html">page</a> to find out!</div>Sarah Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021514478951181534noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6011383482432220057.post-68325640608687526812011-02-28T11:06:00.000-06:002011-02-28T11:06:04.251-06:00farewell frenzyThis week has been a week of good-byes. I left job A to start job B. I had a dream that we packed everything up and moved to a new apartment! And my friend Rachael is moving to Forth Worth to be a nurse...and hopefully soon a finace' (but don't tell the boyfriend I said that).<br />
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Rachael is an ex-roommate, bridesmaid in my wedding, and the recipient of my very first cake kind of friend, so I made a little something special for the "we're going to miss you" BBQ. <br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">But you heard "my very first cake" and haven't been able to get that out of your head. So fine, I'll post a picture. This is Rachael's 2007 birthday cake...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>Sarah Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021514478951181534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6011383482432220057.post-84698046819410346942011-02-19T20:06:00.000-06:002011-02-19T20:06:44.542-06:00Baby cakes and one tight spaceBaking is an adventure. If this is news to you, please, stop here and start reading earlier posts. Making cakes are especially an adventure in my spatially challenged apartment, the 15 inch wide oven being ropes course #1. A typical project requires a furniture rearrange, a trip to the mini storage for the necessary tools, and a new rule...close the laptop. <br />
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The laptop lives on the dining table/Husband's desk. The table, while not far away, is not in the kitchen. While I can understand not bringing the laptop INTO the kitchen when cooking or baking anything, I was a little confused when this rule was first mentioned by my husband.<br />
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From husband, via text message: "new rule. close the laptop when baking."<br />
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Me: "what? LOL"<br />
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Husband: "long story. i droolled on the laptop. i wiped it off and blew on it and a CLOUD of flour flew out!!<br />
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Me: "you drooled on the laptop?! were you sleeping on the laptop?"<br />
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Husband: "no. like i said, long story."<br />
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This week, laptop closed and a safe distance from the kitchen, I made a baby shower cake for a friend!<br />
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Once you preface ANY question with "1 2 3 honesty" the recipient of the question has to not only answer honestly, but quickly. No thinking, just respond. Can't you see how much fun this is!!<br />
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1 2 3 honesty. Did you know that today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday?!<br />
I did....and I might have gotten a little carried away. President cupcakes anyone? <br />
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While we kept the celebration small, there was no shortage on cake...but I guess you figured that. <br />
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Him: [after hearing news of interstate construction on the radio] "We'll be sitting on I-12 for hours. Let's see how far we can get going the back way."<br />
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Me: "Just don't forget there's a cake in the trunk!"<br />
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Pothole #1.<br />
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Me: "CAKE IN THE TRUNK!"<br />
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Crazy driver who cut us off.<br />
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Me: "CAKE IN THE TRUNK!"<br />
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On ramp (the crazy loop kind) acceleration.<br />
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Me: "For the love of god, there is a CAKE IN OUR TRUNK!!"<br />
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I was a nervous wreck when we finally arrived at the reception site. (I'll skip the part where their parking lot was riddled with speed bumps.) My husband and I get out of the car, look at the trunk, say another prayer, and timidly lift the door open afraid of what we might find. <br />
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THE LORD IS GOOD! The cake didn't budge at all! Completely in tact and looking fabulous we delivered the CROWN ROYAL XR safely to the reception!<br />
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One of the cakes I'm gearing up for is a surprise cake, so I can't give away too many details. "Person X" who called and ordered the cake had a little difficulty deciding what flavor cake "Person Z" would like. Cookie cake is usually the cake of choice and they weren't sure what "regular cake" flavor was the favorite. That's when it hit me! We used to make chocolate chip cookies USING yellow cake mix all growing up! What if I adapted the cookie recipe back into a cake recipe?? A cake cake that tastes like a cookie cake! Genius much? <br />
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I made two batches. One, staying close to the cookie recipe with a thicker batter. And the second varying a little more with a juicy batter. (me. juicy = regular cake batter consistency.) <br />
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AND the winner is...batch number 2!!<br />
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Can't wait to make it again...for the real deal!Sarah Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021514478951181534noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6011383482432220057.post-58253191132781073602010-10-23T17:38:00.003-05:002010-10-24T23:22:47.994-05:00felt like "butt" today...LSU and Auburn are at the half...time to update the blog. <br />
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An old friend from high school contacted me last week to do a cake for her little sister's birthday party this weekend. I was excited to hear that word of my "caking" was traveling around and ready to take on the challenge. You see, she didn't want just any cake...she wanted a Yorkie cake. Rule number 1. Dogs weren't made to be cake. I figured this out the hard way. <br />
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I mapped out my week. Law office by day, and baking by night so that come Friday I was ready to stack, carve, and create a cute puppy dog out of cake. I was on a roll until 9:00pm Friday night when the body of said cute dog was complete and it was time to attach the head. I made the head out of rice crispy treats and had some dowels to help it keep its position on the cake. Easy enough. Head on. Stand back and admire. Looks great to me!<br />
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The problems begin when I start to decorate the head. You know, adding the fur, eye balls, and nose. Despite the dowels in place to hold the head up, it keeps sliding off of the cake, taking huge chunks of cake and icing along with it! Panic mode!! So I patch up the cake, add more dowels, run out to get more icing, and get back to find the head and MORE cake chunks on the counter and NOT on the cake where they belong. I patched and iced, rearranged and doweled until my husband got home from work around 2:30am. [He works at a local restaurant] Needless to say he was surprised to see me awake at that hour of the night, but even more so to find me sitting on the kitchen floor staring at a pile of cake crumbs covered in icing, holding a rice crispy dog head in my hand. <br />
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Per his loving advice we went to bed in hopes that the little cake elves would show up in the middle of the night and work their magic on the crumbling pile of chocolate cake in my fridge. Did not happen. I woke up to a bigger mess than the one I left the night before. I was supposed to deliver this thing at 11:00, and I had to call my friend at 8:00 to tell her there would be no Yorkie cake. "The cake died," I told her. I. Felt. Horrible. <br />
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After admitting defeat, the husband and I were navigating the kitchen to assemble some type of breakfast when we got a call from one of his friends. This friend was having a birthday today as well and was calling to cancel his party as he had to make a visit to the ER the night before. The "dead Yorkie" still in the kitchen, we joked around about bringing him the dog's butt -- the only part of the cake that stayed intact. Soon the jokes started sounding like a great idea. What better than a big dog butt made out of cake to cheer you up on your post ER birthday? We removed all the crumbling parts and delivered this to our friend's home...<br />
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The icing reads, "Heard you felt like butt on your birthday" <br />
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Out of the disastrous weekend comes a new simply<strong>sarah</strong>simon staple: get well/feel better cakes involving butts of any kind and witty "feel like butt" sayings.Sarah Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021514478951181534noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6011383482432220057.post-27172130399625488492010-10-18T20:43:00.000-05:002010-10-18T20:43:34.564-05:00sweet dreams of...a better camera!<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I say let's get some cake pictures up! Unfortunately the picture quality is not so hot...but, the cakes are still cute, yea?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">New camera coming soon...fingers crossed. </span><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Anniversary Cake! (my parent's met at a dentist office..haha!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXtJ1L8cQwbKhLOYetKHT17hp6gn-VKf08nqun8G3d5ug5fRLeJj1aQAr9-nFtZq1761OlYaF24dOPl1C3eNvuD8nBYn-DjwitmVwPt2nqjDzRgaXCVlLTZXdrMsyxZVHSVNzlNFQPAWU/s1600/n23416530_38417066_6775.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXtJ1L8cQwbKhLOYetKHT17hp6gn-VKf08nqun8G3d5ug5fRLeJj1aQAr9-nFtZq1761OlYaF24dOPl1C3eNvuD8nBYn-DjwitmVwPt2nqjDzRgaXCVlLTZXdrMsyxZVHSVNzlNFQPAWU/s320/n23416530_38417066_6775.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><br />
<div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Birthday Cake for Mom!</span></div><div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkeCaSth25yx5gQvcgdUL9edazCensXxL4VXGlge9bcy55tVC4rcawVHSNJqG6lPoKHP9JOrZKhbsjCTcFOduMfBSIc_wMabQBTGOdPr76DPYWLsxK8wt_XpPsq6L2E_AgvZNIZ4xp4rM/s1600/090920_009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkeCaSth25yx5gQvcgdUL9edazCensXxL4VXGlge9bcy55tVC4rcawVHSNJqG6lPoKHP9JOrZKhbsjCTcFOduMfBSIc_wMabQBTGOdPr76DPYWLsxK8wt_XpPsq6L2E_AgvZNIZ4xp4rM/s320/090920_009.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Birthday Cake for Mom-in-Law! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUT9-NgNx8qr4jJeO5WHTvPFPzEWWUuZMRlyxJbx1H4ZuSYHfnwM2TKF0KTTpRWmfyC1cTZXugcCtNtpzzyv-qtwCv98WYell98Gh1nXcAV1d32FJl8tRe15lWElUaQ3qQijyFftqQ0G0/s1600/DSC00363.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUT9-NgNx8qr4jJeO5WHTvPFPzEWWUuZMRlyxJbx1H4ZuSYHfnwM2TKF0KTTpRWmfyC1cTZXugcCtNtpzzyv-qtwCv98WYell98Gh1nXcAV1d32FJl8tRe15lWElUaQ3qQijyFftqQ0G0/s320/DSC00363.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><br />
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<div align="center"><span style="font-family: Georgia;">Birthday Cake for Claire!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7WyCp_xXcdKx60U92Z6iW6gXYnwSfS2pKkPc7XmxVW7zxRVLPtJVD9waOSlv7f9YVLpp5thjlYXYzpLTu6F52BuEKYR9e97I1kyGJuhuXNWMK3JX2Z2dpEeK_NZaVV6ZIoX8Qjp6WKQ/s1600/DSC00447.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl7WyCp_xXcdKx60U92Z6iW6gXYnwSfS2pKkPc7XmxVW7zxRVLPtJVD9waOSlv7f9YVLpp5thjlYXYzpLTu6F52BuEKYR9e97I1kyGJuhuXNWMK3JX2Z2dpEeK_NZaVV6ZIoX8Qjp6WKQ/s320/DSC00447.JPG" width="240" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">21st Birthday Cake for Annie!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Ri50BhCT2hD1TkQrv3jKHRJaYNjqoTX_9BRUYWJFuWCrjuUw__VpRHsOQ0OL99dhmrFdLzIQVAWUjwdn895ympLHVySE7mkxDxalwQwh0Es-1CG-hmt4sIaKU8BDSnviQU7AxLiR06k/s1600/DSC00443.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Ri50BhCT2hD1TkQrv3jKHRJaYNjqoTX_9BRUYWJFuWCrjuUw__VpRHsOQ0OL99dhmrFdLzIQVAWUjwdn895ympLHVySE7mkxDxalwQwh0Es-1CG-hmt4sIaKU8BDSnviQU7AxLiR06k/s320/DSC00443.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>Sarah Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021514478951181534noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6011383482432220057.post-60850084493580906392010-10-16T22:29:00.002-05:002010-10-17T09:32:15.052-05:00easy bake to wedding cake!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZSYN0_XvyQKOe9qXrzGhUdNenW4ocbiEsugDYev7_G2vL4PhqF0_NGC84r7qvERg48YDkLTC5dnUrgihXHuRIZYBER1yDAoQ6gj4TBLK4YdZPDbFrS_5qouwlvcY-5_jV6EjP9Nj85uI/s1600/the+beginning.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZSYN0_XvyQKOe9qXrzGhUdNenW4ocbiEsugDYev7_G2vL4PhqF0_NGC84r7qvERg48YDkLTC5dnUrgihXHuRIZYBER1yDAoQ6gj4TBLK4YdZPDbFrS_5qouwlvcY-5_jV6EjP9Nj85uI/s320/the+beginning.bmp" width="320" /></a>Once upon a time I had an easy-bake-oven. Certainly not an unusual thing for a little girl to have, but I LOVED mine. The tiny packs of various cake, cookie, and brownie mixes were always on hand. Then one day it hit me...this was ridiculous! Who would want to eat such a small cake? Why am I mixing this in the same shallow dish it cooks in? I know you can't expect a whole lot from food cooked by the heat of a light bulb, but I was no longer impressed. I wanted more out of baking.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And that's how it started. Since that easy-bake-oven there have been Christmas Eve baking extravaganzas, front yard bake sales, "the best chocolate chip cookie" vote in high school, and then...a TV show? YES! But not my TV show. <a href="http://www.charmcitycakes.com/">Ace of Cakes</a> started playing on the Food Network and I was blown away! They did things with cake I'd never seen before! I learned about fondant and gumpaste and that you can put FIREWORKS into a CAKE! I was sold. I went to LSU to get a business degree so I'd know how to open a bakery. Done deal. </div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Well, I've since graduated with that business degree...and there's no bakery. I did a few cakes and blew people away with cookies and brownies throughout my college career, but nothing serious. I've made some really fun cakes for friends and family, but it was always just for fun. UNTIL, My sister got engaged, decided to have a DIY wedding, and asked that I man the cake. It was on! I had a plan. The week was mapped out. The fridge needed to be cleared to make room for 5 dozen eggs and two gallons of buttercream icing. I worked by day and baked by night. I made my first "this has to count" cake...and it was a wedding cake! </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ePxZsl4I600/TLsIXohMEuI/AAAAAAAAACE/N4srt2d5tQo/s1600/cake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" ex="true" height="238" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ePxZsl4I600/TLsIXohMEuI/AAAAAAAAACE/N4srt2d5tQo/s320/cake.jpg" width="320" /></a>I am newly inspired {hence the blog} to do this. For real this time. Bring on the classes and a fridge full of eggs and icing. I want to bake. simply<strong>sarah</strong>simon is "open for business".</div>Sarah Simonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13021514478951181534noreply@blogger.com6