There is love in pastry.

Growing up as a daughter to one of the most amazing people you would ever meet was not hard. In fact it was quite easy. Our house was always the place you wanted to be. My friends would prefer to hang out at our house than their own (isn’t that just like kids). Our kitchen was always filled with smells of some baked marvel that Mom was creating next.

And me? Well I was content at being the baker’s assistant. I would mix up icing colors (good thing I had that primary and secondary color wheel memorized); bake off cake layers; try my hand at piping (still puts me in awe at some of the stuff people can do) or just be the clean up crew. She never cut corners and always had a smile on her face even in the wee morning hours when the cake just had to get done.

I did not know it then. It took years for me to realize that there is love in pastry and it all started in my mother’s kitchen.

Celebrating life with love and pastry.

Julia Child once said “A party without cake is just a meeting”. She was spot-on!

Throughout our lives there will be many celebrations. I have had a few of my own and never did one of those events not have some kind of cake, pastry or sweet that Mom did not create. It seems to be that along the way society decided that a celebration is an uplift of happiness…a spike in life brought about because of love…and we take a moment to celebrate it…with cake.

It is a Sweet Life After All.

So really the story of us is about my mom and I and how the sweet life to me is I get to work with my mom and bake. Every celebration that I help make memorable for my customers all started a long long time ago in my mom’s kitchen mixing frosting in avocado green Tupperware bowls from the 70’s. It took a while to get here but it is definitely a sweet life.

Share.

It was the consistent nurturing and patience that my mother showed me all those years ago that inspired me to go the blogging route.  So this is about her…and you, a fellow cake artist.  It is where I will share what I have learned and pass along to you just as I know someday you will share it again and that is going to be one “sweet” legacy.