They say if you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life. I have been blessed in my life to have this happen to me. Here is what I'm "working on" today:

My first attempt at "ombre." This is the top tier of a three-tier cake, which will be trimmed in roses. Not sure yet what color. Hoping to find antique roses, otherwise will go with peach or pink.

 "Lucy is 2!" trimmed in pearls, to match the Minnie Mouse ears on an upcoming cake.

 Here is a new mold I got. It looks like lace. The trick is to make it thin enough to look real but not so thin that it falls apart when you lift it!

These little anchors are for a sea-themed cake this week. The macaroni sticking out of the bottoms of the ones on the right...that's so I can just stick them onto the top of the cake and insert the macaroni down into the cake. I used to use thin wires until one came out once and was in the cake when the customer cut it! Only edible stuff, whenever possible!! Lesson learned.

Three new cakes this week!

HERE ARE THREE NEW CAKES FROM THIS WEEK...

MINION from the Despicable Me movie

 Rustic Raffia Wedding Cake

                                                               Groom's sports cake

I worked out of the Southampton Blue Duck today and I couldn't resist taking a picture of little Toshi eating a Blue Duck cupcake! 

So adorable!!

Toshi, enjoying his Blue Duck cupcake!

Here is one of today's cakes that I made:

Working on little bows for a Minnie Mouse cake. Red bows with pearls. So cute.

Today was the first cake class I taught at Blue Duck Bakery in Southampton, Basic Roses.

People came from East Hampton in one direction and from Manorville in the other!

                                                            Here is Laura with her rose!

                                        Her friend Amanda enjoyed it, too! What a pretty smile!

                                               Lindsey is hard at work. (Love those nails!)

                                                            Her sister, Jaime, is a natural!

Mandy, an employee at Blue Duck, makes the most gorgeous cakes and cupcakes in the world. Check out her work at the Southampton Blue Duck. Beautiful!

They learned how to make very basic roses. I also taught how to make a more detailed rose, a calyx, leaves, how to color gum paste, and we worked a little bit with chocolate and made a chocolate rose!

Here is my new, tiny silicone bow mold. 

I bought it on eBay. It will be perfect for chocolate mini-bows for the tops of cupcakes!