Hey Guys! I've Missed Ya!!! Its been 10 days!

Been busy the last couple days! Last 10 days actually that was my last post!

Last week was my convention at church, 4 days of blessings and teachings galore! Was amazing! I was involved in the behind the scenes work and was baking for it also (forgot to take pics of what I baked.  Red velvet cake, Banana cake and Carrot and Ginger cake with cream cheese frosting).

But I'm back now! I'm always looking up and creating recipes. I've spent the last two days researching recipes, and watching cake shows on food network (my favourite channel) in particular. I love watching them and can’t wait to reach that stage in my career. Practise makes perfect, so I watch and I learn to build on skills and improve on something I love so much! 

This is what my work desk looks like when I'm researching, baking books here, there and everywhere and notebooks to make notes.

My thing of the moment is looking up icing recipes and creating my own. From previous posts you'll see that I've had problems with icing. My problem with icing has never been the flavour but the consistency! oh man! Especially with cream cheese frosting! For the longest time mine was always too runny. I could never get it thick enough to frost the cake properly. So I've researched and re-researched and tested and re-tested then researched and re-researched, then tested some more. LOL (you get the point)  I've learned some tricks that have helped and I'm better with icing now than I was a year ago. (Thank Ya Jesus!!!). One thing you need to have when baking and learning baking tricks is patience! ONE MORE TIME...KEY WORD...PATIENCE. 

One of my tricks to do is to leave the butter and cream cheese in the fridge until I'm ready to use it. In all the recipes I've seen or used they always say to let them rest outside at room temperature for a while. That never seems to work for me. So I let them stay cold, I even freeze the bowl I'm mixing in. Plus never over beat cream cheese it just loosens and becomes more runny. I always put it in last.  These are the little tricks that work with icing consistency! 

This was one of the shows I've been watching and studying from. It is exactly what the name says. AMAZING! 

Look how beautiful that is and its not even finished yet! I cannot wait till I've reached this level. This is simply amazing. *IN LOVE*

Not to mention the detail and work that went into this beauty. All done by hand I just want to point out. The theme on this cake was Alice in Wonderland.

The skill, the practise, the time, and the love to want to do a cake like this! I admire the art work, the craft and the dedication! I will reach this stage one day. Watch this space........

And enjoy this journey with me! 

I love you guys, for following my blog! I really do! 

Until next time...Mwah! 

Love Caulene. XxX