Cake Life @ The Velvet Buttercream

So it's been a while since i've last posted about anything.. well it's been an interesting rollercoaster ride at work lately.  Everything from Thomas the train to the evil dead cakes to cupcakes..  I have had so much work to do in the past few weeks that it's made me quite tired and also partially lost my "want" to be a decorator. I love cakes but sometimes it's just too much work with no "Thank you's" or "that looks awesome!"  Well I take that back.. there are some "thank you's" but for every one of them there is always some asshole who will complain.  I have had quite a few of those lately!  You would almost think that I don't understand my clientele by the few complaints i've had in the past two weeks.  I had a lady that wanted her money back for a full sheet cake because it didn't have the "wow factor" that she was looking for.  SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS TO ME! This is the cake the cu

Tidbit's of Maryland keep flowing back into my life.  I just heard from a dear friend of mine that another compliment came to the shop today from a previous customer that loved my wedding cake! So not much has happened this week besides the inevitable... something that I told you all that I would shoot the first person that asked me to do this.   That's right.. someone made me write a paragraph on a cake today!  Since I didn't take the cake order I wasn't able to refuse the amount of text, so instead I yelled at the person who took the cake order. This is just a simple drawing... lol.  The text on the cake was something relating to a group of people saying goodbye to their German foreign exchange students.  The cake itself was pretty good though, a white cake with strawberries and banana's inside with whipped cream icing. More stuff to come next week!  Halloween is right around the corner and so are my two halloween creepy cakes  :D  Keep an eye o

Continuation... So the walk went really well, the cake turned out awesome.  k thx bye..  lol just kidding. The walk did go really well though.  105 Albertsons' store managers walked the store to see all the new goodies for the future remodel of their stores. For the past two weeks there have been six bakery technicians wandering around using up all my cake and icing, then turning around and blaming me for not having enough supplies... how lame is that.  You would think that if they used up 14 cases of cake and over 250 pounds of icing that I would have superior cake backup available.  This is not the case my friend.. The techs created character cakes for halloween, thanksgiving, and christmas.. meanwhile not making any of the cakes that actually do sell.  Speaking of those seasonal character cakes.. NONE OF THEM SOLD!  They all coded out this morning :(  Anyways, I don't want to harp on the bad of these past two weeks.. so lets switch to the good. The store looks

So I started work at Albertsons' this past thursday.. there's nothing better then being thrown right into the deep end head first. Currently my store is going through a full scale remodel.  Everything from the walls, to the floors, to the cake case!  Meanwhile the entire store is a mess, in the bakery we are trying to transition from the summer schematic to the fall schematic.  A transition like that is no easy task.. everything from the colors, to the flavors of cake have to change.  Going back to my first sentence of being thrown into the deep end head first, I have been working to get the bakery up to fall schematic before the head honcho's decide to walk the store. Oh and by the way.. the walk is happening THIS THURSDAY!   So... again...  thrown in, head first.  < insert sigh face here > lol Customer order shaped cakes seemed to be on the menu during my first week back with Albertsons.  I had a request to make "Thomas the train","

Back To ARIZONA! Last year around thing time I was posting my goodbye to this blog hoping that I wouldn't have had to end it on such a sore note.  I kept trying to invent new ways for me to talk about creating wedding cakes, but one can only do so much with icing and 20 hours per week.   In June of 2010 I decided that I was tired of not being with the one I love, so I put the effort in and got a job at a catering establishment in Maryland as their full time cake decorator.  Little did I know that it wasn't exactly full time.. I guess working at Albertsons kept me spoiled thinking that hours were just made out of thin air.  I stayed busy from July (when I arrived in Maryland) through the holiday season, but just as January 2nd hit.. my hours dropped from 45-50 per week to 10 .  My ability to be creative with cakes had gone to almost a standstill and for that reason I had to stop posting to my blog. I wasn't making character cakes anymore, I didn't have any fun