Favorite Projects/ Orders

Through my experience at the Cake Mama's, I have seen so many interesting creations made, an. I even got to experience being a part of the decorating process of the cakes. I decided to share some of these cakes on the blog so I can show what I have been a part of and what designs can come in: 

My Last day..

        On May 20th, my last day at the Cake Mama's had appeared. I had mixed feelings about this day because I knew I wanted to stay, but at the same time, I wanted to leave because of school! I did not know what to do, so I decided to finish my last day of cutting edibles and making fondant discs. As the time flew by, I stayed focused on the task at hand so that I may end my time there on a good note.
                                                                                                 Before Janelle Copeland
, the owner, had left, she told me that she would be willing to bake, fill, and cover all six cakes I needed for my presentation, which was amazing to hear! I was excited because decorating cakes was my original plan for my presentation, and to here here say that she will donate the cakes made me feel like I could actually do the two hour presentation with an amazing activity, so I want to thank the Cake Mama's for every they have done for me and for accepting me as an intern. After experiencing what it is like to work in a business, I feel ready to learn more about every aspect of business management I can.

Blog #26: Senior Project Reflection

1]  The thing I am most proud of during my senior presentations is my big activity. My activity was to decorate a cake based on a certain theme that they were given at the beginning of the presentation. After my presentation, everyone was telling me how they loved my activity, and it made me feel like I had an awesome opportunity and senior project that everyone really enjoyed.

2] a. On my presentation, I would give myself an AE

    b. On my overall senior project, I would give myself a P

3] What worked for me the best about the senior project would definitely be the mentorship because I learned a lot more that I would have originally through research and it was a new experience that I never thought I would get the chance to do. Also, I felt that through the mentorship I got experience to experience what kind of skill I need to improve on and what I need to learn in order to actually be ready to own my own business.

4] If had the opportunity to change something in my senior project, it would have to be the amount of research I had, and also to extend my research to more aspects of not just the cake decorating side, but the business aspect as well.

5] The first thing the senior project has helped me in is how much more detailed and extensive in my research I should be. When I was beginning in my research, I never really new what I was looking for, or how to look at every word so I knew what I could research next in the topic. Another thing I learned was how a business is actually run. I never really understood how pricing works or how booking keeping is done, so actually getting to experience and do it myself helped me learn a lot more about the business side of a bakery or retail store, or how everything functions in a business.

The Class's Creations

Prep and Outcome

Today was a very fruitful yet crazy day. The day before my senior project, I had the pleasure of revisiting my mentorship to pick up a very important part of my presentation, the six cake I needed for my activity. It was exciting to see them made already, and I was so thankful they gave them to me because I believe this is what made my presentation better than I had expected! The following day was finally the day of my two-hour presentation. I had arrived at school at seven am, with all of my supplies; fondant, cakes, table clothes, and my powerpoint.

I had begun to set up, and it was a mad rush to get everything ready, like the table positioning, the chocolate melted, and the cakes out of Mrs. Pittman's fridge, and as soon as the presentation had started, I was nervous to the breaking point! It was until I had started my activity that I saw everyone was truly having a good time at my presentation. As soon as they got to work on their designs and cakes, I was creative sparks flying. All of them had such great ideas, and I was happy to see creativity in a classroom of people who really found interest in my presentation. This whole experience has been such a rewarding experience and I am really happy that everyone, including myself, had an amazing and fun time!

2 Hour Lesson Plan

2 hour lesson plan

Rice Krispes; Painful, yet artistic...

Today was an interestingly painful day at the Cake Mama's. When I first arrived, I was greeted by the aroma of freshly baked cake and the hellos of my fellow workers. As soon, as I asked for my first duty from my mentor, Ashley McNeal, she told me that I had a list of fondant numbers that had to be done. Thankfully, I had some of the number already cut out, ready to be glittered, as the orders had said. After constantly cutting a variety of numbers, wring them so they could stand, and glittering them different colors to match the theme, I was giving the task of sculpting towers of rice krispes.

 This sounded like an easy task at first. I went to the kitchen to grab the appropriate sized cake tins to create the correct shape and size of rice krispy towers. The first tower was going to be transformed into a pineapple for a spongebob cake, which to me sounded a bit strange because it did not resemble a pineapple at first, but Ashley had reassured me that it would be transformed into the desired shape. The next two towers became quite difficult to mold. As I took out more rice krispies to make the last two towers, I found out that I would be using a lot more treats than expected. One after the other, I used treats to form these towers, and soon, I realized that my hand started to tingle and have a feel of scratches on the skin, and as time passed, I realized that it took me about 5 trays to treats to create 3 towers.