Bein Better At this... for the moment

Well since I have the time and a few pictures I figured why not post again. After a few months away maybe I'll pretend that I will stick to posting more. Realistically I wont but hey.

I have for your viewing pleasure a few pictures of some of the cakes I made today. Today was totally INSANE! I have been working by myself for the last 5 days and have an additional 2 before my coworker comes back. Every friday Safeway has a $5 sale. Something from every department is on a really good sale for Friday only. This week I had not just 1 item but 2 on sale and since I was alone that means that some of my other stuff got neglected. Soooo needless to say when I got in to work today I was out of EVERYTHING and since Saturday is one of the busiest days for special cake orders ya know it bein the weekend and all. I started out with 8 cake orders but got calls for 2 more during the day. Normally thats not a huge deal but when the store manager is getting mad at you for having empty shelves it adds a liiiiitle bit to the stress factor. Luckily the bakery manager had my back and told the store manager to back off I was doing my best and then she rolled up her sleeves and helped me get product out.

Here are a few of the orders from today- all the large ones

Lightening McQueen anyone? This is a very popular cake for some reason. Ive done three in the last couple of weeks. This type of cake is called a funtastic cake and is at least 2 full layers of cake (4 if you count each layer as bein split in half and filled)

The Sponge who lives in a Pineapple... under water. Does anyone else see the problems with that? I mean really wouldnt a sponge soak up the water and be unable to move? And how does all the food they eat not get soggy. Cant say as I would really want to eat a hamburger or bun that had been submerged down on the ocean floor. I must say that this is the best Sponge Bob Funtastic cake I have ever made (I will now fail to mention that it is also the first one that I have made) I actually thought it turned out pretty good. Nice and simple unlike this next one...

Talk about your pain in the butt cake. Looking at the picture I like it even less now. I think it needs more color to it. Maybe some pink and yellow or something to brighten it up... and thats coming from a person who LOVES dark colors on a cake. It might have been more fun to make if I wasnt racing the clock to get it done before I had to leave, overtime is not condoned at Safeway. Not the worst cake ever but not my favorite either.

Final cake for the day- I didnt make this one, I just needed a picture of it cause I have to make it later and I didnt want to have to look it up in the gi-normous book that holds all the cake stuff. 

I think its rather cute. Not overly xmas-y which is good since I am a self proclaimed Scrooge when it comes to a lot of things xmas related. The whole season sorta annoys me. I did decide however that there is something worse than listening to xmas music all day at work. Sitting on hold listening to scratchy elevator type xmas music is FAR worse. Who ever knew they would invent a torture that could be sent through the phone lines and have people willingly submit themselves to it in a desperate attempt to talk to a human.
Anywho thats all for today. Maybe more tomorrow, probably not but who knows. Maybe I'll get crazy and post again tonight... but I doubt it :-)