Thursday, August 25, 2005
Cry Me a River
Modern things like washing machines, dish washers, cars, televisions, computers, etc., are great things for which I am grateful for. On the other hand, what is wrong with a little honest hard work? Apparently a lot, since I don't do it very often and usually try to find ways to avoid it when at all possible. Although, I have heard that the best things come from hard work.
There is a wedding this weekend here in Waverly, and I have the privilege of creating the wedding cake. The fact that I will be doing something that will make the wedding day of those two people a little better is a nice feeling, but I am still not really looking forward to the day and a half of work that will go in to producing that cake. The good part is always when you get the cake there without messing it up and it still looks how it was meant to look. Then you take a few pictures and leave. Yea, job (well?) done. The hard part seems to come the next day or so when I realize that I have no idea if the bride and groom liked the cake or if the guests thought it tasted good. All I know is that I got it there in one piece and nothing fell apart before I left. Who knows what happened later. Did the cake tip over? Did a child stick a hand in it before the reception really began? I might never know.
It is fairly hard work to make a large wedding cake. There is a lot of standing and bending and squeezing icing through a piping bag which can end up giving you carpal tunnel. I do really enjoy the creative part of it when it comes to the building and decorating of the cake. The part that gets old is the endless baking and icing mixing that takes significantly longer in comparison to the decorating.
I know, I know, you are all saying, "cry me a river". A day and a half of hard work once in a while is no big deal. I agree, but I am exceedingly lazy as it turns out, so I decided to vent a little about it here. Hopefully all of you out there are having many rewarding things in your life that have come from your hard work. ¶ 10:43 AM
There is a wedding this weekend here in Waverly, and I have the privilege of creating the wedding cake. The fact that I will be doing something that will make the wedding day of those two people a little better is a nice feeling, but I am still not really looking forward to the day and a half of work that will go in to producing that cake. The good part is always when you get the cake there without messing it up and it still looks how it was meant to look. Then you take a few pictures and leave. Yea, job (well?) done. The hard part seems to come the next day or so when I realize that I have no idea if the bride and groom liked the cake or if the guests thought it tasted good. All I know is that I got it there in one piece and nothing fell apart before I left. Who knows what happened later. Did the cake tip over? Did a child stick a hand in it before the reception really began? I might never know.
It is fairly hard work to make a large wedding cake. There is a lot of standing and bending and squeezing icing through a piping bag which can end up giving you carpal tunnel. I do really enjoy the creative part of it when it comes to the building and decorating of the cake. The part that gets old is the endless baking and icing mixing that takes significantly longer in comparison to the decorating.
I know, I know, you are all saying, "cry me a river". A day and a half of hard work once in a while is no big deal. I agree, but I am exceedingly lazy as it turns out, so I decided to vent a little about it here. Hopefully all of you out there are having many rewarding things in your life that have come from your hard work. ¶ 10:43 AM
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Last night on the Food Network there was a show about some big birthday cake bake-off, held in Las Vegas. The competitors each had six hours to create fancy-pants birthday cakes with a "kids' toys" theme. Everything in/on the cakes had to be edible, except for any structural support critical to the designs. Them cake folks sure make some neat looking cakes! When are you going to start entering such competitions?
Not surprisingly we watched that show too. There is not much of a market for those types of specialty cakes around here. They would be quite expensive. So there is not a lot of opportunity for building up some of the specialty cake skills. I have seen Carrie do some amazing things with a cake though and I would love to see what she would do at that sort of competition too.
Maybe you could start your own competition, and then Carrie could participate in it. The first place winner would receive... an all-expense paid weekend at Chez DeVries, perhaps?
There are some small decorator competitions in the area sometimes. They asked me if I wanted to go while I was working at HyVee, but it seemed like too much stress and I was still more unsure of my skills then. I am not sure how to even find out about the competitions since I don't have co-workers asking me to go to them every year anymore. I can't remember if it was just HyVee decorators at that one or not either.
I usually have a lot of fun just making the cakes. I get too nervous and stressed when I am trying to make it super perfect. It would be fun to make some of those cakes that were on that show though. I just wish there were people around here that would pay for something like that.
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I usually have a lot of fun just making the cakes. I get too nervous and stressed when I am trying to make it super perfect. It would be fun to make some of those cakes that were on that show though. I just wish there were people around here that would pay for something like that.
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