I learned to decorate cakes at Coldstone. so after I stopped working there, I started decorating cakes on my own. One of the first cakes I made was for my friend Jeannette. It was dora the explorer. Then after it was a cake for my grandma. I also always decorated cakes for the kids I nanny. Every year when their birthdays come around, we decide a theme and I would make their cakes. With Cameron it was always "Quiet Bear" goes on an expedition somewhere. The boys first cake I made was Pirates of the Caribbean. For the longest time I thought it was my favorite cake ever, but I've learned that every cake is different and that each cake has its own story. So this is my time to document the story and share the experience :)

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The Place I learned..

I decided that I would start a blog. I learned to decorate cakes at Coldstone Creamery in 2005. Every saturday I would work the Cake shift. I would have to make the ice cream cake then wait a day and decorate. I would get all kinds of requests for cakes; different themes and all different sizes. I sometimes would have 5 to 10 cakes due all within hours from one another, most of them being full sheet cakes. Holidays, especially this one mother's day, i built about 40 ice cream cakes and decorated all of those and some custom orders that would come in. In all of that, I started to enjoying making cakes. I started to view it as art, just in 3-D.

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