I have been devouring fellow baker’s blogs, websites, cookbooks, and magazines searching for the perfect chocolate dessert to serve at tomorrow’s Valentine’s Dinner.

What a task this is! Dessert is the final impression. The last taste that these romantic diners will have in their mouths before they go home to do who knows what. 🙂 It has to be rich, intense, memorable, beautiful, clean and worthy of being the conclusion to an amazing meal. Now do you understand why I am having such a hard time committing?

What a wonderful mess I am in. I love scheming over what to create and trying to visualize its final outcome. I am basking in this dilemma to be perfectly honest. I am reveling in the fact that I have a blank canvas that is eager to be filled with whatever I deem worthy.

One never knows where inspiration will strike. You must always keep your eyes open and mind alert – both of which are quite challenging when one is in her last trimester of her second pregnancy.

It’s getting late. Valentines Day is fast approaching and dessert still must be determined.

I will keep you posted.

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I have a love/ hate relationship with wedding cakes. I think it is quite silly to try to create a delicious, moist cake that is vertical and structurally sound. At the same time I absolutely love the challenge.

I always tell my clients that taste comes first. I will never serve a dry piece of cake so sometimes I have to sacrifice the design to accommodate that. Now this also might be that I only have two years of wedding cake experience and have not had the opportunities to learn all the tricks to creating a delicious cake that is also visually stunning. However with the little experience I do have (all self-taught) I think I have managed to create some rather lovely and always delicious wedding cakes – if I do say so myself – which I hate doing. 🙂

Having said all that here are a couple images of a wedding cake that I created for a very close family friend of ours. The bride’s sister and I used to grow up playing “shop” pretending what we would be when we grew up. So it was quite momentous for me to be “grown -up” and creating this cake for her sister. I love what I do and still often feel as if I am playing a game. What a wonderful thing it is to love your career and to find it so fulfilling.

Lovely images were provided by my very talented photographer husband, Gabe.

Cake was served with a black current reduction and Dairy Queen soft serve (their family owned a local franchise)

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