Wow, time really does fly by when it is full of babies and life and sugar! I have been very busy filling tons of orders and playing with my babies. I just launched my facebook page announcing that I am now doing petit fours in an almond and chocolate! They are so yummy! Here are a few of the things I have been working on lately. Enjoy!
It has been a very fun past couple of weeks! I had a booth at the Little Sprouts sale in Franklin that was a hit. I created a Candy Land themed cake that seemed to catch the attention of everyone big and small! I have also done a few girly cakes the past few weeks, everything from 4th 16th and 30th birthday cakes which are always fun since I don't get to do much girly in my life! Being surrounded by boys has landed me in a sea of blues but I am trying hard to add as much color to my life and theirs as possible! This past weekend I was able to do a birthday cake for one of my younger clients. My friend Jacob turned 5 this past week and this was my third cake to do for him. I love doing his cakes because he always has such an imagination and I love being able to come up with crazy cakes and see his eyes light up! So for the big number five the theme was magic school bus and I think it turned out to be quite magical. I didn't get any pictures taken but mom and dad have promised to send some soon that I will post. I ended up having the bus flying in space and suspended up in the air! It was so fun to be part of his big special day again!
I have a very very busy next month with everything schedule from showings and weddings to parties and showers! We will be hosting a couple of parties here at the house from friends and I will be participating in a few events as well. On Wednesday, March 24th I will be at Brentwood United Methodist for their Spring event so please come on out and get some cake! I will also be participating in the annual Tennessee Cake Festival in April so please cross your fingers that I can 1. get the cake done and 2. nothing comes up to stop me from participating! The theme this year is "Spring Carnival" and after many sketches I have finally come up with a winner. I am in it to win it since the prize is $1,000 so wish me luck! This will pay for the remodeling of the basement to put in my commercial kitchen!!!!
I will post some pictures soon, until then, enjoy this sunshine and happy baking!
So today I got to make my most special cake to date! One of my dearest friends had her 20 week appointment today and instead of finding out the gender of the baby they had it sealed in an envelope, delivered it to my house and I got to open it up and bake a cake in either pink or blue depending on what was inside! What a huge honor to be entrusted with such a huge secret! I let out a small peep when I read the news but tried my best to keep my cool until the mommy left! I quickly went to work on baking a yummy cake that they pick up three hours later to take to a family dinner. After dinner they sat down to cut the cake to reveal the news!!! I can not be the one to tell what it is but it will hopefully be a night and a cake they will remember for a long time. Go to http://www.littlelambsandivey.blogspot.com/ to see the news. I look forward to meeting baby Ivey and pray for a life full of many blessings and miracles!! I love you sweet baby
I have been holding out for as long as I can but I have finally put all of my info on a dot com! Check out http://www.icethiscakes.com/ to see pictures and updated information. What a leap of faith this has been but I am so blessed!
Watch out for Ice This Cakes at the Little Sprouts Consignment Sale in Franklin, TN this weekend! Ice This will be sharing chocolate cake samples and you can enter for a chance to will $25.00 of your next Ice This Cake purhcase! I can't wait to see you all!
http://www.littlesproutssale.com/
So, most of you know how terrible I am at taking pictures of cakes, life, my kids, etc!!! But, I am offering all of you out there a deal that I think is pretty good! From now on, if you purchase an Ice This Cake and email me a picture of your cake that I can use to post on my blog I will in exchange give you $5.00 off your next purchase. I will even allow this to work for those who have ordered cakes in the last six months who have not sent me a picture of a cake. Also, if I have done a birthday cake for you before and you allow me to create another birthday cake for your or someone special in your life I will also give you $5.00 off your new order!! Just mention this posting when you contact me and I will add the discount.
This has been a busy year so far with orders and the phone is really starting to ring! I look forward to making many new friends and baking lots of cakes this year! Blessings to all and happy baking!
What a crazy past couple of month this has been for our family! We had a wild Christmas vacation that included spending 15 hours in the car with two little ones to only drive 14o miles through the worst blizzard to hit Virginia in years to being homeless and living with family for six weeks to finally buying our first home! We are so excited to have our own place to call home and I am ready to start the remodeling downstairs to hopefully open up the "Ice This" storefront soon...and to buy furniture to fill up all of our rooms.
Since we moved in two weeks ago my phone has been ringing off of the hook for cake orders and I am so overwhelmed and excited! God has blessed me so much and I am so glad to be able to share this gift with new friends all over. For those of you that didn't know, I was contacted by Graceland in December to compete for the birthday cake for Elvis Presley's 75th birthday celebration. Unfortunately, a local Memphis baker won but what a huge honor to be one of only four bakers selected! But, since we moved in our house only three days before the event took place I was glad to not be totally stressed out! Thanks to all of you who voted for me anyway and hopefully the word got out to a few more locals about my business.
I hope to have new pictures up soon of some of the fun cakes I have going out over the next couple of weeks...and maybe a picture or two of my sweet little boys! They are the reason I do what I do.
Happy baking and happy new year to all! I look forward to hearing from you soon
