October is next week. Next week. It’s almost October… My disbelief comes not from how quickly the year has flown by, though it has, but from knowing I’ve got a full calendar for the first time in my company history and i’m at the threshold of having to fulfill it! I’ve got a cornucopia of charitable events coming up. It feels good knowing I can contribute to so many worthy causes. I’ve been blessed, so I’m being a blessing! Let’s take a look at what’s going on! Oct 3: UCI Far

So i was going back over some of my earlier blogs and had to laugh at this one. It was fascinating/overwhelming me that new flavors and combinations wouldn’t leave me alone. I could tell i was trying to fight them, but decided to compromise, in bits and pieces. HA! I’m all in now, baby!! My imagination isn’t just a greedy mistress, she’s a harem now! People regularly ask me what flavors i offer. Well, pull up a chair America, cuz the list is infinite.  Yes, i still have my ba

Blessings tend to find me. Even when I’m not looking, thinking or anticipating any. Trust, i am not mad at that at all! Do i deserve God’s favor? Do any of us? Not really. But that’s what’s so awesome about Him. He provides for us when we have done nothing to earn it. Hallelujah! So it is my duty, and my honor, to pass these blessings along. I’m philanthroping y’all!! Little Give: Part of the proceeds from The Westside Summer Food & Wine Festival that I’ve contributed to and

Cuz it’s Summertime! Will Smith’s finest – second only to the bare chest scene from Bad Boys… but i digress. She’s here! She’s here! I’m telling y’all… I have waaaaayyy too many flavor combinations in my head. This is just a couple of the flavors I’ve been tossing around in this crazy brain of mine. What doesn’t help is my instagram feed is 50% bars and spirits companies constantly giving me suggestions of cocktails to try and emulate. Madness, i tell you, sheer madness! As a

Groundhog, schmoundhog… This is Southern California and we don’t do seasons! It’ll be winter, spring and summer all in one week and we roll right along with it. Only in SoCal can you wear flip flops with a sweater, shorts with Uggs, or scarves and woolly caps with tank tops. Yeah we do. Don’t hate. So when folks say “Spring is Coming” we say, “Umm, ok…”, because it’s already been here, gone and come back as far as we’re concerned. That’s why i’m excited to roll out our Spring

A couple weeks ago, i had a rough weekend. I had about 8-9 orders to fill. In my haste, i managed to botch 3 cakes. In the end, i fulfilled all my orders, had 3 bags of broken up cake and was exhausted from the bad attitude that had swelled. (Takeaway – focus on the positive, enjoy the process and everything will come out beautifully!) Every baker at every level botches cakes. Either they overcook a couple minutes, or the oven heat isn’t balanced, or the cake sticks to the pa

New year, new goals. New visions, new plans. New shoes, new hair. You know how it goes. So my vision board has started to slowly come to fruition and i’m super excited to see what’s going to play out in the new year! Here it is, let’s go over it: Weddings – ehh, we’ll get there, not a high priority. Priorities – GOD FIRST always has worked out beautifully so far! I can’t wait to see what else He has in store! Self-Sustaining – Primary Goal for 2018!!! By year’s end, I want to

I’m a purist, a minimalist and in general, lazy. I like things as simple and pared down as possible without sacrificing the pleasure principle. I do not impose my lunacy on you, but that’s what i put into your cakes. I’m not saying I take as many shortcuts as i can or use inferior products, but i’m going to take the fewest steps possible in effort to minimize the time and labor necessary to get your treats to you. There are a lot of bakery options out there and the more popul

Going off the cuff with this one… I’m all about planning, prepping, timelining, organizing and yadda yadda, but not today. I saw that i haven’t written to you in almost a month, despite the dizzying array of events swirling around me, so i’m putting pixel to page to purge. You ready? You sure? ok. Last we spoke, i was shouting in my spirit about my cup being empty, right? Well folks, the water is bubbling!  I still haven’t heard from my Wendy’s angel, but that’s ok because i

I was having a conversation with a dear sister of mine about order cakes for the upcoming holidays. She said, “I’m just going to start taking orders at work. Just going to walk around and write them all down…”  We laughed about it, but it’s really a brilliant idea! Earn free cake by filling in the gap for me! If I could walk around your circles all day and talk to folks about my cakes, you know i would. But since I can’t, you can chat them up on my behalf! It usually helps to