Beautiful Wedding

nobody@vox.com(Artzy Carmen) — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:55:37 -0700

Entirely tired and grateful that the wedding is over – at least as far as I am concerned. The kids may still be there dancing away, I don’t know. I spent a couple days making a wedding cake and we demolished that thing in less than 10 minutes. ...

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Goin Bananas

nobody@vox.com(Artzy Carmen) — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:28:28 -0700

I am making a wedding cake. It's my first one ever. Well, that's not entirely true. I've made so many wedding cakes I've lost count years ago. I made my first cake in the late 80's - maybe 88? Not sure. And most of the time I'm pretty good...

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Wild Ride

nobody@vox.com(Artzy Carmen) — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:53:22 -0700

I have one more day at Bipolar Bakery and then I’m finished. Three out of five employees are leaving in the space of a week. And today I found myself in the middle of a conflict between the 19 year old Elf who made my icings and the 50-somethin...

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Sunset on the Bakery Battle

nobody@vox.com(Artzy Carmen) — Tue, 27 May 2008 06:51:53 -0700

I didn’t get a real weekend. Actually, it was a lovely weekend but there was just so much of it that I woke up really tired this morning. Saturday I delivered a wedding cake and told my boss that I’d work through the end of May and that would b...

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The Red Velvet Wedding (and the saga of the loser cupcakes)

nobody@vox.com(Artzy Carmen) — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:54:05 -0700

The second wedding cake of the weekend was much bigger and was at a semi posh local hotel. There were only 250 guests planned, but we made a total of 600 servings of cake for them. The bride’s cake served 255 people, the groom’s cake another 10...

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Little Bitty One

nobody@vox.com(Artzy Carmen) — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:30:38 -0700

This little bitty wedding cake that turned out so cute. This wedding party had about 15 guests and was in a local restaurant. The cake icing was tinted a ginger color to match a paint chip (yes a paint chip from the paint department) that the b...

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This weekend's wedding cake

nobody@vox.com(Artzy Carmen) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:47:22 -0700

The bride brought us a napkin with a really pretty monogram on it. So I made a fondant medallion and carefully copied the monogram, bit by tedious bit. It is hand painted on the dried fondant with a mixture of vodka, food color and luster dust t...

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This weekend's wedding cakes

nobody@vox.com(Artzy Carmen) — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:38:58 -0700

I decorated a wedding cake this weekend. It was the first one of the season. The bride wore a white gown with apple red beaded embroidery. She wanted the cake to match. So I studied the photographs of the dress and set about making an icing v...

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The Christmas Wedding Cake Caper...

nobody@vox.com(Artzy Carmen) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:32:43 -0800

Sometime in early December a frantic woman called me and asked if we’d take a wedding cake order for December the 22nd? She’d tried everyone and we were her only hope. I talked briefly with BL and we agreed to do the cake. (Yeah, like we had n...

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Chocolate at the vineyard

nobody@vox.com(Artzy Carmen) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 21:31:15 -0800

This ultra simple ultra sheik little wedding cake is chocolate through and through. Yummm… The wedding reception was at a local vineyard with chocolate hardwood floors, and the tables were draped in chocolate and the chairs were even chocolate ...

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