My last name starts with Rad, I'm an aspiring pastry chef (recently accepted into a baking and pastry school in a large city), who works as a cake decorator. One job is cake decorating, dessert creation, and maybe, sometimes, bread making. It's at a local, upscale grocery store. It's pretty cool.
For now I am disinclined to divulge names of others and specific places to protect the innocent.
And let me say this: I love what I do. I have not enjoyed anything before like I do my current jobs. There's a level of creativity required, but also a level of perfectionism. Things must be exact and beautiful. There's a degree of science as well as a degree of art required in baking and pastry. Anyone in the field can tell you this.
With this blog I hope to showcase my decorating skills, my baking experiments, and the geeky things I found that I must share (no promises that the last item will be related to baking or pastry at all).
So, to start, here are photos of a birthday cake I made and decorated for my friend for her last birthday. She was born on Halloween and is a nearly ravenous fan of the Joker and slightly less so of Jack Skellington, so I combined them into one cake. Also, there are some gingerbread cookies I decorated for funsies.
Cake and cookie designs are mine. I created them, and I took the photos (hence the large watermarks). Please do not copy or share without asking permission first (it'll probably be granted, I just want to know).
Thanks so much for reading!
Skeletons and skulls, oh my!
The whole cake. One side was devoted to Jack Skellington, the other Heath Ledger's Joker. Covered in fondant, painted on using food coloring, and bordered with grey royal icing.
The face was drawn by hand, by me. No tracing.
This was fun (and stressful). There was no actual Nightmare Before... font I could reference, so I used the DVD box and did my best to come up with what would be the font.
Again, no tracing. Painted on by hand.
