Friday, November 6, 2009

The Cake Fairy Learns to Fly

Every fairy needs to learn to fly. Sometimes it takes some magic - more often I think it starts with hope and a dream. Once you get brave enough to do that, you can start to fly.

Let me backtrack a bit to before the hoping, dreaming and flying.

I like to cook. I like to eat. I like to cook for people and have them eat what I cook. Most of all I like to surprise them with something that has wonderful texture on the tongue, unforgettable flavor and is visually pleasing. I like to see their expression change when what I make meets all of that criteria. I love to see that "eye roll"

Thats how I started experimenting with butter cream. But in order for you to understand fully what I mean, I have to take you back before the butter cream.

One day I got an idea to make miniature birthday cakes for co-workers. I would make them and leave them on their desks at night so that they would see them when they came in in the morning and be surprised. For a while, no one knew who was doing it. Cakes just started showing up. There was talk that we had a "Cake Fairy". My alter ego was born.

After a while people began to figure it out that it was me, and I started expanding the Cake Fairy Cake choices. I began to experiment with butter cream and fresh fruit. I got special 4" X 4" boxes and Cake Fairy stickers that said "Happy Birthday from the Cake Fairy" Every month I would send a list of the cake choices around to those people who had birthdays that month and let them choose their cake from several varieties. I even got IT to create a Cake Fairy mailbox. It only cost a mini-german chocolate cake. A small price to pay to complete the Cake Fairy persona.

I think what surprised me the most was how good the cakes were and how beautiful they became as I experimented with my talent. I started using gum paste flowers to decorate them. I worked to perfect the recipes and streamlined their decor and then the unthinkable happened - people wanted to buy them and they wanted full-sized cakes.

What I will write here will be my changing from giving away cakes to selling them. I hope to put into words my feelings about other people putting a value on my creations and taking my silent hopes and dreams into reality. I learned to give a voice to my hopes and dreams and its important to me to fully understand what that means and what gave me to courage and confidence to do that. I'm going to explore that step by step here from the first silent prayer up to present day. Then I'm going to write about what happens from here on.

Right now the whole thing seems to have a life of its own. I've placed it in God's hands and honestly, he's doing quite well with it.

If you are reading this - thank you for joining me in wrapping my head around what's happening.

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