Hey look, I made a cake! I know it’s been a while and it feels good to be back. As you may have figured out, it was for a first birthday. The cake itself wasn’t too complicated, but this was one of my more pleasurable cake decorating experiences in a while. Sometimes I forget just [...]
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Oh hey! Have a good Christmas? Do anything exciting over the holiday? See a good movie and eat some Chinese food? I did all of those things. Except eat Chinese food. I did eat Beef Wellington though. It was my first Beef Wellington experience and has confirmed my suspicions that the basis of British food [...]
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Cake. I suppose this website is called Simmiecakes. Because I make those from time to time. Admittedly, it’s been a while, but this past weekend I had a real reason to put my skillz (yes, my madd skillz) to use. My cube neighbor, Jeff, threw a big ol’ shindig for his parents’ 50th anniversary this [...]
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Hey there, what’s up? Look, I made a cake! It’s been a while, I know. I’ve missed it. I’ve missed kneading the fondant. I’ve missed icing the cakes. I’ve missed the last minute panicking when something inevitably falls apart. But I’m back! Life is starting to settle down again so maybe I’ll have some time [...]
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I really wish I could grow things. I have somehow managed to defy the laws of nature and genetics and have inherited The Jackster’s (non)ability to grow…anything. I mean, I’ve killed bamboo! I’m pretty sure all you have to do to keep bamboo alive is give it water every two weeks or so. And somehow [...]
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The baby blocks are back! They’re almost square and kinda cute and this time they have Hebrew letters! Yup, I free-handed those puppies myself. Bonus points to anyone who can read what they say. There were supposed to be only six blocks, but apparently my engineering background and long years of higher education left me [...]
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Right, so in real life I’m an engineer. I work for a company and we build spacecraft. No joke. In college I worked on a satellite. It’s called CUSat and it’s supposed to go to space. No joke. This is a CUSat cake. We’re going to launch it on a brownie rocket. No joke. OK, [...]
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You see, this cake is supposed to be crooked. I’ve actually made this cake before and The Jackster promptly asked me if I had messed up because it was all tilted. I appreciate the confidence, Mom! I quite like this cake. It’s fun and pretty and full of whimsy and class (black, white, and pink [...]
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While the Celtics handle the Magic, the Lakers are playing the Suns. That’s about the extent of my knowledge and interest in NBA basketball. Ok, that’s a lie. I know that Steve Nash looks really short on TV, but he’s actually quite tall when standing next to regular people. I know the Celtics beat the [...]
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I’ve had some interesting cake requests in the short time I’ve been doing this. I had the snowblower with the bloody finger, the music playing boxing gloves, a now defunct military satellite, and a Christmas octopus, but this was by far the weirdest cake request I’ve had yet. A pair of thumbs up? Thumbs up? [...]
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Remember that last post I did about this ginormous cake? Well, this is what it turned out to be: Yup, a First Communion cake! I really enjoyed making this cake. The concept was fairly simple, but I thought the design was quite elegant. The hardest part about this cake for me was the piping. I [...]
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