It’s been a rough year and I stopped blogging for many months. I also stopped running Beatrix Cakes as a business after this summer because I simply couldn’t balance everything. My daughter became mobile and I could not chase her and make frosting at the same time. And so here are a few of the cakes I baked before I decided to close shop. Cue Boyz II Men:
King Cake
I baked this cake for a book group. They were reading A Lesson Before Dying. A king cake is meant to have a little baby Jesus figurine in it, but I chose to use an orange wedge instead. No choking!
This was a chocolate cake for a group of soccer-playing children and their parents.
This was a birthday cake I whipped up for my sister-in-law’s birthday. No frills or borders, but I sort of like this one best out of anything I’ve made.
This was a vanilla cake with chocolate frosting and tiny flowers (for an Easter celebration).
A cake for a poet and her philosophy grad student friends. View from the top:
Heh.
A mocha cake for Mother’s Day.
A chocolate cake with chocolate shavings. Honestly, I don’t even remember making this cake. I hope it was tasty!
Certainly, the best part of the last year has been watching my daughter grow. Here she is with her two great grandmothers, playing with a cake ring toy from my dear friend:
And so I will try and blog more, with updates of anything interesting I have baked, books I have read, places I have traveled… you get the picture.
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