Mother's Day Cake

I was busy all weekend baking and decorating cakes for my Mom, and a few of the women I wanted to honor as great mothers. The cake I made was a chocolate fudge cake with chocolate butter cream filling and covered with fondant, in the shape of a box of chocolate. I filled the "box" (round and heart shaped) with different types of chocolate. They came out pretty good. My Mom did not want to cut hers' (I believe as I write it's on a bus with her to Marathon Key). I'll post a picture of it later in this blog.

Well, I read an unknown author's quote today and thought of how much I "act like" my Mom...the quote goes like this:

"Children are natural mimics-they act like their parents in spite of every effort to teach them good manners."

We love to share silly jokes, so the week she was in Las Vegas I missed her so much, because she was too busy having fun for me to reach her to share anything. That week, I did not listen to a particular radio program just because I knew my Mom was not sitting at work waiting for me to give her a call or her calling me. It's her passion for baking and cooking I got. She was always trying something new like me, but with her fruit cakes, the recipe almost never changed - she bakes the best fruit cake on this side of the galaxy.

I love her so much and Mommy, Happy Mother's Day. Yeah, I know it was on last Sunday, but now you know...

Walk good.
JJ

The Last Daisy

January 2008 I took the last order of cookies for Daisy Gourmet. I decided to close the website because of a number of reasons. First, it was costing far more than what it was making. Second, physically it was taking it's toll on my health. Third, my passion for cake decorating was calling me.

My sisters and mom was not too happy about the decision. I saw it as a way of regrouping and getting new direction for what I really wanted to do with my creative skills. Funny though, I thought I was going to burst into the new dimension of cake decorating, but it's not so. I have been struggling with tendinitis in my left hand and arthritis in my right hand which is making it even more difficult and painful to do some simple piping. That, my friends, I will not let it deter me from pursuing what I want so much to do.

So, "Boo!" to painful hands and "Yes!" to doing what I love. Until next time, "Cheers!"

Jeannie