It's my art

After graduating college with a business degree I took a job that I enjoyed, but it didn't give me much opportunity to flex my artistic muscles. I was forever searching for that one thing that I could truly be passionate about. I started to realize that every time I had some free time I was stashed away in the kitchen either cooking or baking something; and one day it hit me, this was it, my true passion is food!

Julia Child said that the thing she truly enjoyed doing in life was eating. Me on the other hand......the thing I truly enjoy is cooking, baking, creating. People ask me all the time why I don't weigh 500 pounds, and the only thing I have to thank is that I really enjoy sharing my creation with others and seeing them truly enjoy it. I really enjoy both cooking and baking but somewhere along the line I started to gravitate more towards baking. I come from a long line of really good bakers and I learned a great deal about it from my Mom and Grandmother (although if you asked them they would modestly tell you that they're not that great. I beg to differ!) So one day I decided that my goal would be to one day open a cafe/bakery. I'm still working on the cafe but in the mean time I went back to school and completed a baking and pastry certification. I loved going to class every week, the new and exciting things we created really inspired me. After classes were over I ventured in to the world of specialty cakes, which has really become my art. And so I thought I'd share a little gallery of some of my art......enjoy!

This Elmo cake was the birthday cake I made for my nephew Kylyn's 1st Birthday

This monkey cake was the birthday cake I made for my nephew Searin's 1st birthday.

I've made this baby cake numerous times for friends and family's baby showers.

I got tired of making the baby cake for every shower so I changed it up for my friend Lucie's shower and made this pregnant belly cake.