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Okay friends.....

First draft complete. The final product will actually be three tiers with a row of flowers between each tier. The columns I bought are too long and left too much space between. So I stacked it!

Thanks for your support!

Bon appetit!

It starts

Baby steps. Cake plate ready for assembly.

Long time coming....

Alright friends. I'm back. It's time to get serious about this wedding cake adventure. Agreeing to make the cake for my dad's upcoming wedding has proven to be much more emotionally taxing than anticipated.

Wedding cakes are hard. When they are for your dad, when he is getting remarried.....boy, I can't even put it into words. I'm so happy for him. Thrilled that he's been able to find a woman that makes him happy and that he's been able to move forward since my mom's passing.

That doesn't make it easy, though. Not to mention it's for my dad. He's....sort of a perfectionist. Pressure is on. The next few months, expect numerous "practice" posts. I'm gonna need them.

Cheers to firing up the oven. Wish me luck with the fondant!

Bon appetit!

Holiday Hiatus

Hello friends!  Since my "real" job keeps me soooooo busy during this time of year, I've taken an extended hiatus from my adventures as JenTheBaker. I have every intention of starting back up mid-January, and I will start posting photos and progress on my biggest project for the year:  the cake for my dad's upcoming wedding in June! Until then, I thought I'd at least post something for you all so you know I'm still here...itching to fire up that oven again. For now, I'll participate in a fun game, blog tag if you will...Enjoy!

1. Post these rules.

2. You must post 11 random things about yourself.

3. Answer the questions the tagger set for you in their post.

4. Create 11 new questions for the people you tag to answer.

5. Go to their blog and tell them that you've tagged them.

6. No stuff in the tagging section about "you are tagged if you are reading this."  Legitimately tag 11 people!!

Eleven. Random. Jen. Things.

1. I hate flip-flops.

2. I could eat macaroni and cheese everyday. For the rest of my life. For reals.

3. Jr.Mints are my favorite candy followed closely by Chocolate Covered Gummy Bears. Try them. You're welcome.

4. I most likely have hairline fractures throughout every bone in both of my feet, but that doesn't stop me from wearing badass stilettos and wedges every day.

5. No matter what, if I see the scene from Backdraft when they are having the funeral, I will cry when they all salute Rebecca De Mornay's character and give her the flag.

6. I have a relationship with Michael Kors accessories that I've never had with any other designer. Buckle ring, what? Oh yes, I got one.

7. I know everyone says it, but I truly believe my daughter is the coolest almost 6 year old on the planet.

8. When I was twelve, I could make a perfect omelet. Not anymore.

9. I had my first fried egg at the age of 32.

10.I have a new found love of eggs.

11. (No more egg facts) It is not Christmas for me until I see the Hershey Kiss commercial where the kisses are bells playing "We wish you a merry Christmas" and that kiss that has the last note uses his little paper to wipe his "brow" and say "phew!"

Questions from Absolute Mommy

1. Best childhood memory

Going on motorcycle rides with my dad.

2.  Favorite book

That's tough......I've read Slaughter-House Five a MILLION times.

3. Why did you start blogging?

My first blog is a series of letters to my daughter. I started it because I was dealing with the grief of losing my mother at the beginning of last year...it's a way for me to leave my little girl a small piece of me.

4.  Your Starbucks order

Venti Americano

5.  Harry Potter or Twilight?

Nope

6.  Favorite 80s movie

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

7.  Do you own Toms? (Yeah I'm obsessed)

No. Gross.

8.  Favorite funny person

Mitch Hedburg

9.  Facebook or Twitter

Facebook

10.  Pick a Kardashian

For what? Public mockery? Which one is the dude married to Lamar Odem?

11.  What's on your tv right now?

Basketball. Clippers/Bulls.

Onze por vous!

1. Dream travel destination

2. cake or pie

3. are you where you expected you be ten years ago?

4.do you miss the x-files circa 1996 as much as I do?

5. Truly, honestly, can a girl have too much pink in her wardrobe?

6. I really don't like cats. (I know that's not a question.)

7. Refrigerator covered in magnets and drawings or clean surface?

8. ice: cubed or crushed

9. Maruchan or Top Ramen?

10. Which Hepburn: Audrey or Katherine

11. Do you sufer from Beiber-fever?

Tag! You're it! You're supposed to tag eleven...I have three. Loser.

Elizabeth at Flourish In Progress

Jani at Dear Taylor

Alanna at Alanna on the Move

Apple Pie Cookies....WHAT??

You read that right, friends. Apple. Pie. COOKIES.

Not only did I finally get a chance to fire up the oven again, I came out with a bang. I wish you could smell this picture.

You can bet your bottoms this will be added to my regular repertoire. 

Excuse me while I go eat them all......

Bon appetit!

End of my hiatus...

Hello friends and lovers of baked goods!

I have been quiet for awhile, lots of work for my real job along with a week long conference kept me out of my kitchen...but I'm back to a semi normal schedule and ready to fire up the oven again. 

So the question is:  what to bake?  I've been scouring the interet for ideas and today we had some crazy, gloomy, wet weather hit the area.  I thought of all those fall yummies that make sense on days like this, but instead....I think I'll whip up a batch of strawberry lemonade cookies....a blast of summer on this dreary day. 

As always, if you have any questions or requests....email me at jenthebaker28@gmail.com

Bon appetit!

Orders and such....

Happy Friday friends! 

I've received a few comments through my facebook page wondering how one would go about placing orders from JenTheBaker.....

While I'm working on getting a website up, I'm still taking orders on a custom basis....basically, if you would like some deliciousness sent to your home/work/school, email me with your requests, what you're thinking you'd like, when you need it, etc.  Remember, I'm doing this in addition to my full time (45 hr/week) career....so to have an order form to submit seems a bit scary as of yet.  Can you imagine if the orders came flooding in and I had a week full of inventories, floorsets, meetings, etc!  JenTheBaker would get NO sleep and you'd end up with salt in your cookies instead of sugar!

So, until the website/ordering is fine tuned, send me an email!  jenthebaker28@gmail.com.  We're always open! 

Thanks for your continued support!

Bon Appetit!