Esalota - The Adventures of starting a bakery

1. New Creations!
   Retirement Cake Toilet Paper Cake Birthday Cake Birthday Cake Wedding Cake Golf Bag

   
   

   

   
2. A Baker's view on Recycling
   I know it has been a while since I have done a post here, much has happened, like too many hours at the "jobby job", wedding cake, promotion, and well a couple of other things. One of the things was changing trash companies.  The one I went with, offers recycling container.  Now, so do some others, and many times you end up sorting the trash, and humans being humans, we can get lazy. The

   
   

   

   
3. Baby Shower Cake
   I had one idea in my head when I said I'd do this cake, and it just wasn't working.  So I took a step back and this is what developed.  I saw a picture of one a while ago, and it seems to fit. Let's hear it for the Baby Butt

   
   

   

   
4. One of those days.
   I do all the birthday cakes at work.  Tomorrow is Tommy's Birthday.  So I planned on coming home and baking. Tommy likes pound cake, so I was going to do a pound cake, and torte it, a cheater's cassata cake.  Rather than use stabilized whipped cream, I was going to use flour frosting.  (Trust me that stuff is yummy!) Got home, took out the eggs, butter so they could warm to room temperature,

   
   

   

   
5. A Simple Conversation with a Cup Cake
   Last week I had this conversation with a young woman I work with at my "jobby job".  You know the one that gives me a paycheck so I can pay the bills while I strive to perfect my recipes and skills as a baker in order to open Esalota in a brick and mortar building. As she devours the red velvet cupcake with flour frosting, "So like, when are you quitting to go to culinary school, like you know