Five Year Plan

http://rachescakes.blogspot.com/

Lindsay's Description:

Many people who decorate cakes for a hobby dream of making a living from their bobby and Rachel is no different.  Over at her blog Five Year Plan she showcases her talent as she works toward her dream of opening he own bakery.  Rachel has improved her skills considerably since her first cake and her designs and creations are not only inspiring, but also show she is well on her way to her goal.

Rachel's Description:

I quit work to stay at home with my son in 2008. Now I have time to work on improving my cake decorating skills. My goal is to be making a decent living at decorating cakes by 2013.


Recent Updates at Five Year Plan

Purple

18 March 2010

I found a cake on Flickr that I fell in love with and waited for the opportunity to copy it. A friend was hosting a personal shower for a friend she grew up with. She liked the cake so I tried it. My flower and dots are a little different than the original cake. I wish I had better lighting in ...

Boy birthdays

16 March 2010

Handy Manny chocolate cake with buttercream icing. Fondant and gumpaste accents. Star Wars yellow cake with buttercream icing. Fondant and gumpaste accents. The mom purchased figurines to go on each cake. I put shortening in my buttercream icing so that it is more stable than just using butter. ...

Larry, Bob, and Junior

21 February 2010

My best friend's daughter asked me very sweetly one night if I would make her birthday cake. She wanted three cakes, Larry the Cucumber, Bob the Tomato, and Junior from Veggie Tales. I agreed and then wondered how to do it. Larry & Junior are vanilla pound cakes I baked in loaf pans. Larry ...

67-72 Chevy Pickup Cake

16 February 2010

Family birthdays are when I experiment with new recipes. My husband and I have very different tastes in desserts. I prefer chocolate, he likes fruit or caramel. So for his birthday I came across a butterscotch cake with caramel icing. He is also really into old trucks so I decided to make a ...

Happy Valentines Day!

14 February 2010

For the past 3 years I have been trying to make cookies, decorate them, and get them in the mail to my nieces and nephews for Valentine's Day. For various reasons it just hasn't happened. This year I got the cookies made and mailed, but I don't think they arrived in time. I also ended up making ...

I'm back!

30 January 2010

After a 2 month break from cakes, I am back at it. On December 23rd, my daughter was born. We are still trying to get her on a schedule, but she is doing really well. I thought I was going into preterm labor and had to cancel my son's 2nd birthday party. 2 weeks later we celebrated just the 3 of ...

Catching Up

22 November 2009

At the end of October, I thought with the exception of my son's birthday, I was done with cakes until spring. Instead I have been staying pretty busy with cakes. Here is what I have done so far this month. Almond sugar cookies with fondant decorations. I used texture mats, letter presses, and a ...

Rach's October Challenge: Spooky Cookies

31 October 2009

For the October challenge I planned sugar cookies and had big plans. Then I ran out of time so I ended up doing basic decorations. I rolled out fondant very thinly and cut out shapes the same as the cookies. As soon as the cookies came out of the oven, I placed the fondant cut outs on the ...

Cake Class

27 October 2009

This past week I got to take a class from the Sweet Southern Ladies from Louisiana and recent winners of the Ultimate Cake Off on TLC. This was my first class outside of the Wilton classes and I was amazed by how much I learned. I was a bit intimidated as I was by far the most novice person taking ...

Pretty in Pink

08 October 2009

One of my best friends is expecting a little girl 3 weeks before me. Her shower was this weekend and I got to make the cakes. I used a design from Peggy Porschen's Pretty Party Cakes. Her design was for mini-cakes, instead I made 3, 3-layer 6" cakes. One cake was toffee with white chocolate ...