I'm A Published Author!!!

I took my Lambeth cake to the 2011 ICES Convention in Charlotte, NC for exhibit in the Cake Room.  Exhibitors were encouraged to showcase old school, piped technique cakes, so what better than the cake I'd done for the Great American Cake Show in May?  The exhibits aren't judged, but are there to provide inspiration and entertainment for the several thousand attendees at the convention.

When the cake was retrieved from the Cake Room, there was a card from American Cake Decorating magazine asking me to contact them, as they wanted to feature it in an upcoming issue.  I honestly thought it was a mistake--there were so many gorgeous cakes--but when I got home, I e-mailed them and answered their questionnaire.

Today, I got the surprise of my life when I opened an envelope containing the magazine and found my cake on the cover--THE COVER!!!!

The cake isn't perfect or "purist" in the technique, but it sure looks pretty on that glossy paper!

To Gnome Me, Is to Love Me!

This was another, "Where's the cake???" 

 Well, it's not just the cupcakes............It's the basket, too.  

The gnome is a rice krispie treat sculpture covered in modeling chocolate--fully edible execpt for the dowel rod supports.

The basket cake (serves 8) and the cupcakes are yellow cake with strawberry mousse filling, iced with vanilla buttercream and accented with modeling chocolate daisies.

I don't know the back story on why a gnome for Susie's 50th, but I hope she loved him.