5.05.2010

On blogs and blogging and to-do lists


Cake Toss by Amy Cutler

I love lists beyond all reason and must write at least three or four different ones a day: grocery, to-do, try to remember, etc... . But sometimes I feel I need a list for my lists! So many things get lost in the shuffle, forgotten as the ink fades away. I wish I had a reason for why this blog landed on one of those disappearing pages, something more exciting than "I don't know what I want to say so I won't say anything at all" or "sometimes this whole internet thing just freaks me out." Having a blog can so quickly start to feel like another one of those things you have to do...the pleasure packs up and runs away on an extended vacation to a place with no phone service or internet connection.

Thankfully, as with all things that are at the core of who a person really is, the passion always comes back—maybe changed a little from all of the sightseeing and good sleep, but better. Stronger and clear-headed.

I've been working on a new website, www.jessicasreed.com, that will serve as a home for all of my cake projects, as well as launching pad for the custom cake baking business I hope to begin. Because of these things, among others, I have decided to give myself the gift of more time by ending Cake Thursday. All cakes and invites will be archived on the new site (as well as living here).

My plan now, while I get the site up and running, is to start gathering up the dust bunnies that have accumulated around PoC these past few months and start posting again, hopefully at least once a week. There are so many interesting and wonderful things I've learned about, tasted and tried over the years that I sincerely hope will interest you all. If there are things you'd like to know about or see on this blog, please let me know (info@jessicasreed.com)!

Thanks for sticking with me and Pictures of Cake...

Jess

3.23.2010

1.27.2010

Breaking the (Blog) Fast

After a long, holiday-family-life-endless-head-cold related break, Cake Thursday has returned—
Now on Mondays...

The invitation:



And the cake:

11.24.2009

Cake Thursday: November 12th

Was a Pumpkin-Walnut-Chocolate-Chip Bundt Cake in celebration of National Bundt Day (11/15)...

11.06.2009

Cake Thursday: October 29th

Lost in the Woods Cake
Three layers of Devil's Food Cake filled and frosted with Bittersweet Chocolate Ganache.

For the invitation, I altered the original poster from the must-see, wonderfully creepy film, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane.


And for the decorations, I whipped out my trusty miniatures to create the a "Lost in the Woods" vignette.



The little house is a bittersweet chocolate I hand-molded, then painted a light in the window with powdered food color.



10.26.2009

Cake Thursday, Oct. 8th


(Image source: John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery)

The painting in the invite is Spanish Dancer (Woman) by John Singer Sargent. As for the cake, it was tasty, but I do not have any pictures to show. If you're curious, I got the recipe from the wonderful new book, All Cakes Considered.

10.14.2009

Better Late Than Never

Intergalactic Root Beer Cake



With Crystal "Moons"

10.06.2009

Cake Thursday: September 24th



Pictures of the cake coming tonight or tomorrow!