The other guy in my life..not related to cake at all!

I think I told you a few weeks ago that I have a new camera, well, I have been taking pictures like there's no tomorrow and I wanted to share some with you. This is my other baby, he has been with me and sleeping in my bed since he was 3 weeks old. His name is Lucas Felipe.

Pirate Cake

Hi dear friends, I hope you all are doing great. Around here we are getting ready for the fall, it has been windy and the warm nice weather is gone. This summer was very short.A long winter is ahead of us and I am getting ready to start complaining about the cold. The good thing is that this year we will be enjoying more the snow, I already can see my little girl playing around with her snow boots. Potty training has been good so far ( just in case you wanted to know) and baby Cami is talking more and more every day, just like her mom. The other night I guess, I was pushing the veggies too much at dinner time and she said " mami loca", yes in Spanish, she said I was crazy, it was really funny at the moment, which I won't think will be in a few years. My mom is stable, not better, not worse, just there. Work,bla,bla bla, the same. Regarding me I have done a few things lately that take my mind away from my every day routine. I took a wonderful Hydrangea Flower class with Ruth Drennan, it was awesome, I am actually thinking about posting a small tutorial, you know the usual with my broken English, thank God for spell check! A very special friend send me the most beautiful and unexpected gift, a camera!! ( thank you so much drear friend)so I have been taking pictures like there's no tomorrow... I am very happy. I have a few cake orders coming up, also some classes and this coming Saturday I will be going to the city for a Cake Business Seminar, I am really excited because I have a lot of questions. I really want to open something in the long future, so I want to get all the information out there. This week I'm making lots of butterflies, ladybugs,grasshoppers and more gumpaste details for a Garden theme Cake. Well, I have been a little busy as you can read. Here is my Pirate Cake that I did this weekend for one of my really good and talented friend's son's birthday party. The theme of the party was "Pirates" . This cake is actually vegan vanilla cake with vegan vanilla frosting because my friend's son has some allergies and we wanted him to enjoy his cake without any worries.
As you can read, I added my blog address to the picture, well there is a reason for that: Like many of you, or I don't know maybe I am the only one who does it, sometimes when I read a blog post I read the comments and sometimes a comment or blog name spark my interest and I end up visiting their blog, I have found really good blogs this way. Well, yesterday while I was browsing around with a simple click I end up in a blog post, very interesting...it had some pictures of "resents cake orders from miss bla,bla,bla and one of the pictures posted was MY CAKE with my daughter's name on it. I can't begging to tell you how mad I was... I would love to have the courage to copy and paste the email that I send to this blogger, button line is that within hours the blog post disappear along with the blog. Has this ever happen to you? because I thought this happen only to famous people, not a beginner like me. I always get inspiration from other cakes, but at least I give the credit to who ever made the cake. Oh, well!

I made the boat with rice crispy treats and then I covered with fondant. I used my modeling tools to get the wood effect on the fondant and then I painted the boat with Brown and copper food coloring. The little pirate I made with gumpaste, I got the idea from the cover of the Wilton Year Book. Well girls, I hope you like it. Have a great week.

Pink Shoe Cake

Finally here I am, tired, as always, what else is new?
I have been so busy these past few weeks, potty training has arrived in my house, a new schedule at work, a few sugar flower classes and running around... that's my life. My mother is still very ill, she's been in and out of the hospital for the past month and she doesn't seem to get better, it is heart breaking for me since from here is very little what I can do. Thank God my sister is there and is taking good care of her. Cami is doing great, at her Day Care they moved her from "Gold Fish" to "Purple Cats" my baby is growing pretty fast. She now counts 1 to 10 in Spanish and English and she is starting to understand more when or where we speak Spanish or English. I 'm doing well, trying to get use to a new schedule at work and saying good bye to my Tuesdays off, it seems that real estate is picking up, so at work I look like a chicken running around most of the day.
OK, I'm going to stop wining and I am going to show you my latest cake. My client's wife is a very stylish woman, beautiful and always so put together, her birthday was on Sunday and he wanted to do something special for her. He planned a beautiful birthday party and wanted to have a nice cake for her. They just visited Morocco a few weeks ago and she bought these beautiful pink shoes, he email me some pictures and I use them as an inspiration for the cake.
This is her shoe. And here is the sugar shoe that I made.

This is my very first shopping bag, I am trying to imitate the shopping bag from Sack Fifth Avenue, since my client's wife shops there.

And here is the cake. Vanilla cake with chocolate buttercream.

I hope I can post soon a few recipes from my class with Chef Malgieri. I also attended a hydrangea flower class with Ruth Drennan on Saturday and I want to show you the beautiful flowers, they were so easy to make. Well I hope you like the cake. Take care and be well.