I ain't afraid of no ghost

My sisters friend was having a birthday party and asked that I do his birthday cake. They wanted a spice cake with cream cheese frosting and they wanted it decorated in a ghost busters theme. I thought that the logo with the white ghost and red crossing sign was a little played out and decided to go for the Stay Puft marshmallow guy. I must confess, not only am I not a ghost buster fan but I hardly remember seeing the movies but the giant stay puft guy tromping down the city is the one scene I do remember. While doing this cake I learned that cream cheese frosting is not easy to decorate with because it's so heavy so I kept the actual frosting decorations to a minimum. I did a layer of white frosting and then did the blue so I could take the blue frosting down and a little bit of white would show through to had some depth to the sky. I googled ghost buster quotes and around the side I wrote "We Came, We Saw, We Kicked It's Butt (ok, or maybe a more inappropriate word)". The actual marshmallow man is made out of marshmallow fondant which I thought was a little whitty. From what I heard the cake was a hit and the party goers were more than happy to demolish the rest of the city scape.

Must.. eat.. cookies!

Bah! I can't help myself, I have to post a few teaser photos. I'm resizing the pictures for the website and they just look soooooo good! Some friends offered to take the pictures for us and they turned out amazing.

website woes

We are working feverishly this weekend to get the website up and functional. There's a lot more work than I anticipated. I'm just so so lucky to have a husband that is computer friendly.

Something that I had thought about but never really focused on was sampler trays. Today we bundled some of our favorite stuff into samplers and it's awfully exciting. I love everything we have on our menu but when you mix stuff up into a box full of tasty, I don't know, it just seems like it could really make someones day to get a sampler of cookies and brownies.

Our goal is to get the website up by tonight, here's to high hopes and a lot more work!

The Bumbling Bee, finally taking off!

Imaginary drumroll please...

The big announcement is that yesterday the bumbling bee was finally certified by the department of agriculture which means that .... dramatic pause... we're now open for business!! After 3 very long months of waiting patiently we finally have all our t's crossed and i's dotted. I put in my notice at my day job and soon enough the bumbling bee will be a dream come true. There's still a list of things to do, the first of which is to finish the website. We're also working on our holiday treats, so far the pumpkin chocolate chip cookies are a huge hit and a must have on our menu.

Thank you all so much for being so patient with us. This moment has been a long time coming and has taken a lot of work and faith. Now I can offer delicious treats to everyone I meet and official call myself a business owner. Cheers to that!

little bit slower but far from dead

Sorry for the lack of updates! The day job has been taking every waking moment and every stitch of energy. Big news on Wednesday though, stay tuned!!

monkey business

Through the grapevine my husband heard that a coworker was looking for a bakery that would do a custom cake for his son's 1st birthday. Knowing that finding a bakery that will do a custom cake for a reasonable price is hard to find, I offered to do it for him. They gave me a reference to what they'd like and I did my own little take on it.

The cake is a yellow cake with chocolate buttercream filling and crumb coating. To match the glaze on the ear doughnuts I did a chocolate ganache on the face topped with a cut out layer of fondant for the bottom half. The nose is jellybeans and the little poky hairs at the top are black licorice jimmies. The eyes are colored fondant. I was super pleased with how this cake turned out.

bumbling along

We have been working hard to get our website up and going by September 1st but as luck would have it, we're still waiting on approval from some of the government agencies. There has been some back and forth and it seems like things are starting to make some progress on their side so hopefully within a few weeks we'll be good to go.

We had a difficult time at the zoning office because of our unique situation being that we're a cottage bakery. There was much researching and talking to management only to have summer vacations get in the way. We finally cleared things up with them and then waltzed across the hall to get our business license and it took mere minutes (and a lot of money!) and ta-da, we had our business license, just like that. We were dumbfounded that it was so easy compared to everything else.

Labor day weekend was spent baking every menu item because we took photos for our website. Some friends offered to take pictures for us and since they have a knack for it and have turned out some really great looking photos of food, we jumped all over their offer. There's converting and editing to be done on the photos but from what we saw on the camera screen ... well, I'm super excited.

This week I'm searching for super cute boxes/baskets for corporate gifts for this holiday season. I'm also thinking about Christmas specials, you know, those baked goods that totally undo your dieting plans but are totally worth it. Suggestions are always welcome!