Cake Designer Meets Baker/Decorator for Dream Cake

I love people who know what they want. This cake is all about that. The Leadership Academy cake has made a splash with a lot of people. Especially one person who just turned 17. For her birthday she had asked for a party, down on the farm, with her friends and family. She planned a bon fire, chicken bog, and just fun and conversation. To make it right she needed a cake and she told me exactly what she wanted.
Let's call her Ally. She started off saying it was to be exactly like the leadership academy cake, which had her mom a little hesitant knowing that nothing is exactly the same each time, especially when you bake. However what Ally wanted was a little different. She started by designing her own edible image. She had her mom take the photos, then edited them together into her overall image design. She sent me a text to make sure it would work then sent the image, via her mom (who is such a good sport by the way) on a SD card so I could print it out. I was also instructed that two sheet cakes were to be used in tiers with the bottom one being my butter cake and top one being a chocolate butter fudge cake. So I had baked and had an image I just needed the rest of the vision. Once again, via her mom, she sent me a drawing showing the scroll work she wanted and the colors. Of course black and pink go with the image she designed. Now due to space I had to take a little liberty with the design. That always makes me a little nervous.
I delivered the cake at just the right time, right before the party was to begin. She was tickled with how it turned out and I must say that she did an excellent job of designing her dream cake. I gave her all the credit for how it looked because she was truly the designer for this endeavor.

Who Doesn't Want a Car at 16?

We have someone at our office who is fairly new and extremely important. Keith is our custodian who takes care of our building and us. You could not meet a kinder, genteeler, more humble man anywhere. He often tells us how much he appreciates us and we appreciate him. So when he came to ask me a favor it was a no brainer to say yes.

His daughter's 16th birthday was coming up and he was wondering if I could do some sort of cake for her. She likes sports cars and you can tell by the sparkle in his eye that she is the light of his life. So I came up with something out of the ordinary. I made a 3-D car, which is usually a beatle but this one was decorated in a sporty manner. I asked about her favorite colors and he said blue and black and not a blue like tar heel blue. So I went to work. Of course I had to add a little something special just for her and put her initials on the front license plate of the car. Apparently she was so excited at dinner she let her family eat all of the car except the very front end with her initials on the license plate. He was pleased as punch that she liked her special cake and I know she had a great time at a special family dinner with her dad.