What is your favorite thing to do, when you have some extra time? I love to bake cakes and decorate them. When I first started doing this my son didn’t like it. He would tell me he wanted a chocolate cake and if I had to decorate it do it in chocolate. I would say what good is that if you can’t see it, but I would do it anyway.
I learn to decorate cakes on my on. I didn’t take any classes; all I did was buy a book and the decorating tools. I made the icing and just tried to make the flowers the way the book showed to do. I loved it and everybody said I was getting pretty good. I would make everyone’s birthday cakes and when there where no birthdays, I would just decorate them for fun. The fun thing was to come up with an idea and make it come to life. If people could figure out what it was, I figured I did a good job.
I remember making my first wedding cake. My aunt talked me into making her daughter’s wedding cake. She told me that my other aunt would help me and that she had made one before. I said O.K., but when we started to put the cake together I asked her how to do it and she said I don’t know. That was a scary moment. That’s when I knew I was on my on. My cousin was happy with the results and that was all that mattered. Everyone said it looked great.
I love baking my grandchildren’s birthday cakes, they get so excited. They especially like it if you make it look like a car or a train. They like helping me make cakes. I give them all kinds of sprinkles and let them do it any way they want. Seeing the smiles on their faces make me very happy and makes up for the mess. I hope they remember all the fun we had when they get older because I remember doing things with my grandmother and when I do it brings a smile to my face.
