Getting started - for real this time!

Hey there!

Thanks for stopping by. As is probably expected, I'll use this first post as a bit of an intro...so let's dive in!

My name is Nadia and I am a cake decorator. A wife. A scientist. A lover of all things butterscotch, all things organisational (note the justified alignment on this post!), and all things decorative. I relax by watching those tv shows and movies that people are embarrassed to admit to, and you know what? I love them. I love escaping into the suburban world of Gaby Solis on Desperate Housewives, performing surgery with McDreamy & McSteamy on Grey's Anatomy or kicking some zombie ass with Daryl on The Walking Dead.

I have always loved baking, even though in my earliest memory of doing such, I was in early high school and served a chocolate cake to my family, who'd gathered to celebrate my mother's birthday. They ate small bites politely and mumbled about how cute the cake was, how talented I was, all the usual family kind of comments. I took a giant bite and was instantly so embarrassed I wanted to crawl under the table. This supposedly delicious morsel in my mouth was actually a pasty mess and I couldn't taste chocolate at ALL. Not one person finished their piece, politely pushing bits of cake around their plates to make it seem like it was disappearing. I discovered I'd used plain flour instead of self raising flour....although to this day I swear to God there was more wrong with that disaster than just a little flour mixup.

Aaaanywho, here I am 15 years later and I'm proud as punch to say that I've not yet repeated that mistake. I LOVE to create things, and I've found I'm not too bad at this old cake decorating thing. I don't claim to know it all, this business is constantly changing and new techniques pop up every day! I'm HUGELY thankful I stumbled across MyCakeSchool to help me out with all this learning! I have started up a small business selling my custom cakes (found here) - mostly to cover my costs! This is one expensive hobby!

This year I have been mulling over what I'd like to accomplish in the Wide World of Cake and I have come up with SO many many ideas. Firstly I am taking LoveCake to the local Pure Bride exhibition on Feb 23 (one week away - eep!) so stay tuned for a post or two about that experience! Hopefully a commercial kitchen will follow later in the year (our garage is full of junk so it might as well be full of baked goodness!) I also wanted to have a place to share my thoughts, ideas, recipes and other general musings - so what better format than a blog to cover all that!

So please enjoy, and let me know if there are any recipes, techniques or things that you'd like me to research and write about!

Cheers,

Nadia x