<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672</id><updated>2011-07-30T07:19:07.442-07:00</updated><category term='electric'/><category term='Fender'/><category term='pink'/><category term='Ace of Cakes'/><category term='hawaiian'/><category term='Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation'/><category term='Disaronno'/><category term='offspring'/><category term='Meaghan'/><category term='sponge cake'/><category term='Paloma Blanca'/><category term='mountain'/><category term='cupcake'/><category term='wedding'/><category term='peacock'/><category term='penguin'/><category term='competition'/><category term='treasure'/><category term='sombrero'/><category term='gold'/><category term='art'/><category term='white'/><category term='flower'/><category term='wedding cake'/><category term='lion'/><category term='train'/><category term='logo'/><category term='Challenger'/><category term='string'/><category term='headphones'/><category term='chocolate'/><category term='TPC'/><category term='Garmin'/><category term='sugar flowers'/><category term='tiger lily'/><category term='iPod'/><category term='dove'/><category term='guitar'/><category term='piano'/><category term='cake'/><category term='giraffe'/><category term='geocache'/><category term='lightning bolt'/><category term='car'/><category term='lei'/><category term='rolling stones'/><category term='blue'/><category term='angel food'/><category term='birthday'/><category term='feather'/><category term='igloo'/><category term='golf'/><category term='penis'/><category term='caboose'/><category term='cupcakes'/><category term='engine'/><category term='canoe'/><category term='bear'/><category term='bakery'/><category term='golf club'/><category term='throwdown'/><category term='luau'/><category term='golf bag'/><category term='grass'/><category term='Altered States'/><category term='GPS'/><category term='tiki'/><category term='sandcastle'/><category term='surprise'/><category term='clubs'/><title type='text'>SHAM bakery - San Antonio, TX</title><subtitle type='html'>It's a SHAM! No it's not. It's SHAM Bakery - our newest business endeavor. We want to be known for making the most outrageous cakes and baked goods San Antonio has ever seen. Better yet, the most outrageous cakes Texas - no, the WORLD - has ever seen. Also, we make some killer cupcakes.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>27</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-3608681743699344965</id><published>2011-05-16T10:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2011-05-25T10:40:01.310-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mountain'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='car'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='penis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='canoe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Challenger'/><title type='text'>12 months in 12 minutes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;My sincerest apologies to all my loyal SHAM readers. The last year has been insane in the membrane and left me with many lingering things on my to-do list, including this blog. Without wasting another moment of your time, please prepare yourself for the abridged version of the last year of SHAM awesomeness.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In no particular order, the following are our favorite SHAMtastic cakes of the last 12 months:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Oilers Grooms Cake&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This cake was for the wedding of a friend of mine from High School. The flavor was freakin' awesome and my new favorite (in fact, I made it for Easter and ate most of it myself). It was a chocolate stout cake (made with real Guiness) with Godiva liqueur chocolate buttercream frosting. The best part was the filling: fresh raspberries. Super yummy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pSi_d-E9XHw/TdGUIwzQwdI/AAAAAAAAASM/WVHpdPsCpbs/s320/Oilers%2Bcake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607425889312752082" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 320px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I was reluctant to post this cake out on the public domain of the InterWeb, but by popular demand and much insistence from friends and family, here it comes: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;the Bachelorette Party cake&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sRmsm_Bx9iI/TdFgDdefMJI/AAAAAAAAAR8/QcukPphnUIo/s1600/Penis%2BCake%2B%2528arial%2529.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: center;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 239px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sRmsm_Bx9iI/TdFgDdefMJI/AAAAAAAAAR8/QcukPphnUIo/s320/Penis%2BCake%2B%2528arial%2529.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607368623621353618" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LNsZzQR3Kis/TdFgC3MTVXI/AAAAAAAAAR0/UwqebbFnRZA/s1600/Penis%2BCake%2B%2528head%2Bon%2529.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 227px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LNsZzQR3Kis/TdFgC3MTVXI/AAAAAAAAAR0/UwqebbFnRZA/s320/Penis%2BCake%2B%2528head%2Bon%2529.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607368613344531826" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Canoe Cake&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This was a fun, sculptural piece that we were able to make for a surprise birthday party. But better than hearing it from me, listen to what she had to say about the cake and the event on her blog:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://kathyamen.blogspot.com/2010/02/turn-about-is-fair-play.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="cursor: pointer; color: rgb(59, 89, 152); text-decoration: none; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;http://kathyamen.blogspot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break" style="display: block; float: left; margin-left: -10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;com/2010/02/turn-about-is-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;wbr&gt;&lt;span class="word_break" style="display: block; float: left; margin-left: -10px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;fair-play.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DgpVlSObDiA/TdFgCdiqhxI/AAAAAAAAARs/_UffGr118Hg/s1600/DSC06715.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DgpVlSObDiA/TdFgCdiqhxI/AAAAAAAAARs/_UffGr118Hg/s320/DSC06715.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607368606459004690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ywj9tJdLlN4/TdFgCHR6QKI/AAAAAAAAARk/l6LfGLe9F_I/s1600/DSC06718.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 228px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ywj9tJdLlN4/TdFgCHR6QKI/AAAAAAAAARk/l6LfGLe9F_I/s320/DSC06718.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607368600483152034" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;The Dodge Challenger Cake&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This car was skillfully built and decorated by the S of SHAM, herself. This picture really doesn't do the car justice... anyone want to get rid of a nice camera? I'm not above begging. Camera pilfering aside, this car was used on Brian's birthday cake. Brian is a huge car enthusiast and his son, Velton, is a huge Rice Krispie enthusiast so we think both parties were very satisfied.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0zYHdHjEKpk/TdFgCG3Q51I/AAAAAAAAARc/qX5NWKQrPRg/s1600/Car%2BChallenger.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 208px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0zYHdHjEKpk/TdFgCG3Q51I/AAAAAAAAARc/qX5NWKQrPRg/s320/Car%2BChallenger.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607368600371390290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;80's MTV cake&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;This cake was made for two rockin' birthday boys who were born in 1980. Friends and family celebrated with everything 80's: music, spandex, neon color, and an MTV cake, of course! The backdrop of the cake had twinkling stars which lit up the room; the birthday message was written with "tape" (fondant) from a cassette; and the astronaut Oh Mickey-ed 'til his little lungs could Oh Mickey no more.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mh-W0FjhhmY/Td09qPKsPXI/AAAAAAAAASc/Qw-JIrzrjB8/s1600/80%2527s%2BMTV%2Blogo%2Bmoon%2Bcake.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mh-W0FjhhmY/Td09qPKsPXI/AAAAAAAAASc/Qw-JIrzrjB8/s320/80%2527s%2BMTV%2Blogo%2Bmoon%2Bcake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610708506608680306" style="cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R18DBvEU3tk/Td09p-QDg5I/AAAAAAAAASU/kGvpWEXYKaI/s1600/80%2527s%2BMTV%2Blogo%2Bmoon%2Bcake%2B-%2Bcloseup.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R18DBvEU3tk/Td09p-QDg5I/AAAAAAAAASU/kGvpWEXYKaI/s320/80%2527s%2BMTV%2Blogo%2Bmoon%2Bcake%2B-%2Bcloseup.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610708502067774354" style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 206px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;SHAM Bakery featured on Cake Wrecks&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;...and we're proud of it!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OkuNEaDi1FU/TdFpmdN7UUI/AAAAAAAAASE/qWstiRNQFIA/s320/Cake%2BWrecks%2Blogo.tiff" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5607379120451965250" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 87px; " /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Our Star Trek cake inspired lots of debate on one of Cake Wrecks' Sunday Sweets posts a while back. Put your Trekkie hat on and enjoy the show!&lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2011/01/sunday-sweets-must-see-tv.html"&gt;See the Cake Wrecks post here&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My May resolution (four months late but better late than never!) is to be better about posting here and on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/SHAM-Bakery/133235911897"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;I'm out like The Rock's deodorant in FF5.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-3608681743699344965?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/3608681743699344965/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2011/05/12-months-in-12-minutes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/3608681743699344965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/3608681743699344965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2011/05/12-months-in-12-minutes.html' title='12 months in 12 minutes'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pSi_d-E9XHw/TdGUIwzQwdI/AAAAAAAAASM/WVHpdPsCpbs/s72-c/Oilers%2Bcake.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-7562290879536040703</id><published>2010-05-10T18:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-10T18:40:04.928-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Our Fender Ain't No One Hit Wonder</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S-ix69EaETI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/tF-MRh242jA/s1600/Guitar+Fender+Blue.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 112px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S-ix69EaETI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/tF-MRh242jA/s320/Guitar+Fender+Blue.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469817373825044786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Rachel and Arthur's groom's cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Irish Stout Chocolate cake; Godiva Liqueur Chocolate frosting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;This groom's cake is a familiar friend to SHAM bakery. If this looks familiar to you, you've probably seen &lt;a href="http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/08/rock-n-rolling-pin.html"&gt;its redder cousin&lt;/a&gt; in our portfolio. I'll leave out the corny rock-and-roll jokes and just let the pictures speak for themselves.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S-iw8GFfRqI/AAAAAAAAAQs/yTnUdl1zeXc/s1600/Guitar+Fender+Blue+Strings.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S-iw8GFfRqI/AAAAAAAAAQs/yTnUdl1zeXc/s320/Guitar+Fender+Blue+Strings.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469816293913740962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Close-up of strings and double humbucker pickup&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Hang out with your meringue out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-7562290879536040703?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/7562290879536040703/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2010/05/our-fender-aint-no-one-hit-wonder.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/7562290879536040703'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/7562290879536040703'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2010/05/our-fender-aint-no-one-hit-wonder.html' title='Our Fender Ain&apos;t No One Hit Wonder'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S-ix69EaETI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/tF-MRh242jA/s72-c/Guitar+Fender+Blue.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-8669016642239086465</id><published>2010-05-10T17:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-12T06:08:29.947-07:00</updated><title type='text'>A Disney Disaster</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S-itbRaAMMI/AAAAAAAAAQU/1aF8XkWVKAA/s200/Castle+Cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469812431482007746" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A Beast of a Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Yellow cake; chocolate frosting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;This cake was the centerpiece of the Alamo Heights High School theater department's dessert gala for the opening of their production of Beauty and the Beast earlier this year. The eventwas decorated beautifully: the lobby was filled with candles, roses, and desserts as opening night patrons exited the theater. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Our favorite part of this project was the tallest tower with back-lit, edible "stained glass" rose window. Walls were covered with crawling vines, tiny gumpaste roses and small gumpaste figurines of the Beast and Belle (complete with gratuitous cleavage) stood on the top balcony, looking over the castle grounds.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S-ituWWC55I/AAAAAAAAAQk/RuphfHDtEGQ/s1600/Castle+Cake+Window.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S-ittVmq_II/AAAAAAAAAQc/sTAzCpBQ5Ks/s1600/Castle+Cake+figures.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S-ittVmq_II/AAAAAAAAAQc/sTAzCpBQ5Ks/s200/Castle+Cake+figures.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469812741846531202" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 189px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S-ituWWC55I/AAAAAAAAAQk/RuphfHDtEGQ/s200/Castle+Cake+Window.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469812759225100178" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S-itbRaAMMI/AAAAAAAAAQU/1aF8XkWVKAA/s1600/Castle+Cake.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;B&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;e our guest and enjoy these pictures of edible Beast and Belle &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;and the back-lit, edible "stained glass" window.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S-itbGyHkMI/AAAAAAAAAQM/6w2eYBsbgWQ/s1600/Castle+Cake+Window.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Cake and Kids: A Tale as Old as Time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-8669016642239086465?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/8669016642239086465/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2010/05/disney-disaster.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/8669016642239086465'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/8669016642239086465'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2010/05/disney-disaster.html' title='A Disney Disaster'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S-itbRaAMMI/AAAAAAAAAQU/1aF8XkWVKAA/s72-c/Castle+Cake.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-8747517392955002380</id><published>2010-01-26T18:55:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-26T19:19:10.865-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='grass'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='TPC'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='golf bag'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='golf club'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='logo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='golf'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clubs'/><title type='text'>A Delectable Hole-in-One</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S1-sURhktyI/AAAAAAAAAP8/3s4_Ep8J_e0/s1600-h/P1010143.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 375px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 272px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431249139933689634" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S1-sURhktyI/AAAAAAAAAP8/3s4_Ep8J_e0/s320/P1010143.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;TPC San Antonio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Golf Bag Cake&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The Tournament Players Clubs (TPC) recently decided to open a club in San Antonio and guess who got to make a cake for the grand opening?! Some other bakery in town! Just kidding - they picked the &lt;em&gt;best&lt;/em&gt; bakery in town - us! (Hey, I never said we were the most modest...)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S1-sUPEyD4I/AAAAAAAAAP0/29-ydvxQFFY/s1600-h/Golf+Bag+Cake.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 258px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431249139276058498" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S1-sUPEyD4I/AAAAAAAAAP0/29-ydvxQFFY/s320/Golf+Bag+Cake.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cake ended up looking great - it was really clean and simple but (despite what the picture may look like) had some really great details. "Seams" followed all the edges of the different colors of fondant and the silver buckles and edible golf clubs that we added to the golf bag cake looked really great. Everything down to the piped grass on the cake board was precise and detailed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S1-rvgaEq8I/AAAAAAAAAPs/4jbu2FcIPqY/s1600-h/TPC+logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 174px; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431248508273601474" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S1-rvgaEq8I/AAAAAAAAAPs/4jbu2FcIPqY/s200/TPC+logo.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S1-rvScSLqI/AAAAAAAAAPk/4UHS_rtsFOo/s1600-h/Golf+Bag+Cake+golf+ball.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 205px; HEIGHT: 196px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431248504524779170" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S1-rvScSLqI/AAAAAAAAAPk/4UHS_rtsFOo/s200/Golf+Bag+Cake+golf+ball.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S1-rjiQCfwI/AAAAAAAAAPc/_IUtoAMOusw/s1600-h/P1010127.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 198px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431248302609956610" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S1-rjiQCfwI/AAAAAAAAAPc/_IUtoAMOusw/s200/P1010127.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;TPC logo, edible golf ball on edible grass, silver buckle&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;My favorite quote from this project:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;"I've decided that all golf bags look like fertility statues." &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FORE! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-8747517392955002380?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/8747517392955002380/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2010/01/tpcs-most-delicious-hole-in-one.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/8747517392955002380'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/8747517392955002380'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2010/01/tpcs-most-delicious-hole-in-one.html' title='A Delectable Hole-in-One'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S1-sURhktyI/AAAAAAAAAP8/3s4_Ep8J_e0/s72-c/P1010143.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-6740532691734949034</id><published>2010-01-05T09:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-05T10:22:19.267-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Pretty, Pretty Poinsettias</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N_LT1XxuI/AAAAAAAAAPU/tHly1jA-Yjc/s1600-h/Gum+Paste+Poinsettias.bmp"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423318208563627746" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N_LT1XxuI/AAAAAAAAAPU/tHly1jA-Yjc/s400/Gum+Paste+Poinsettias.bmp" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Handmade White Gum Paste Poinsettia Flowers (go me!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christmas orders this year were cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes! It presented a great challenge for us since we haven't made gumpaste flowers in a while. I was nervous at first but - TA DA! - they came out great! We made Christmas cupcakes for a bridal shower, as a thank you gift for a local banker, and as party favors for a holiday dinner. We spent the whole holiday season decked out in red and green sprinkles. (Needless to say, I was thrilled - it was Christmas-y and sparkly. What more could a girl ask for?)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N_LB4e1aI/AAAAAAAAAPM/8Qmy2Cl6T70/s1600-h/Christmas+Cupcakes.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423318203744834978" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N_LB4e1aI/AAAAAAAAAPM/8Qmy2Cl6T70/s400/Christmas+Cupcakes.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;More Red Velvet Christmas Cupcakes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Poinsettias, Holly, and Ornaments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;We ended up making dozens and dozens of Christmas-themed cupcakes. It was a three-man job (special thanks to Mike who stepped up to the plate and helped us decorate... and helped us maintain our sanity in the wee hours of the morning) but we're really proud of the end results. We heard great things from everyone who ordered cupcakes and we're looking forward to being even more creative next year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N-kavWBMI/AAAAAAAAAPE/uDZKoEwMQUw/s1600-h/Christmas+Cupcakes+Gift+Tray.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 186px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423317540402496706" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N-kavWBMI/AAAAAAAAAPE/uDZKoEwMQUw/s200/Christmas+Cupcakes+Gift+Tray.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N-kGGRnKI/AAAAAAAAAO0/hcut3HHvbFg/s1600-h/Gum+Paste+Poinsettia.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 187px; HEIGHT: 185px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423317534861532322" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N-kGGRnKI/AAAAAAAAAO0/hcut3HHvbFg/s200/Gum+Paste+Poinsettia.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N-kIsWF5I/AAAAAAAAAO8/kccslD0I6MY/s1600-h/Christmas+Cupcakes+Tray.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 299px; HEIGHT: 149px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423317535558080402" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N-kIsWF5I/AAAAAAAAAO8/kccslD0I6MY/s200/Christmas+Cupcakes+Tray.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N-j4rVfqI/AAAAAAAAAOs/cAadGeVX3mY/s1600-h/Christmas+Cupcakes+Closeup.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 217px; HEIGHT: 165px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423317531258879650" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N-j4rVfqI/AAAAAAAAAOs/cAadGeVX3mY/s200/Christmas+Cupcakes+Closeup.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N-jbkB6hI/AAAAAAAAAOk/tm5BRdLcNiQ/s1600-h/Christmas+Cupcake+Set+of+6.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 166px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423317523443608082" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N-jbkB6hI/AAAAAAAAAOk/tm5BRdLcNiQ/s200/Christmas+Cupcake+Set+of+6.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Happy 2010!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-6740532691734949034?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/6740532691734949034/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2010/01/pretty-pretty-poinsettias.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/6740532691734949034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/6740532691734949034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2010/01/pretty-pretty-poinsettias.html' title='Pretty, Pretty Poinsettias'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N_LT1XxuI/AAAAAAAAAPU/tHly1jA-Yjc/s72-c/Gum+Paste+Poinsettias.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-6534182474469732253</id><published>2010-01-05T09:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-05T09:57:39.972-08:00</updated><title type='text'>David Sedaris and Christian Louboutin</title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423310708130430674" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N4WuivvtI/AAAAAAAAAOM/ToRr9Oyihlg/s400/Magazine+Cake.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;TIME Magazine Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Chocolate cake with Vanilla Buttercream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;This magazine cake was made for a big David Sedaris fan. Rachel, whose husband practically worships at the altar of David Sedaris, knew that this idea would be a big hit. Sure enough, we got an email a day after his birthday celebration where Rachel told us that James laughed hysterically when he saw the cake. Happy Birthday, James!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 332px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423310707503195426" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N4WsNM5SI/AAAAAAAAAOE/CULCa5w88dI/s400/Shoebox+Louboutin+Cake+turned.JPG" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Christian Louboutin Shoebox Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Red Velvet cake with Cream Cheese Frosting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This Louboutin shoebox cake was a birthday cake for a big SHAM Bakery fan. Megan, like all of us with two X-chromosomes, would kill for a pair of Louboutins (shoot, I'd settle for the box, even). But as we didn't want to commit murder around the holidays, a cake was as close as we could get to the real thing. Happy Birthday, Megan!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N4f-Xq-vI/AAAAAAAAAOU/i2dSdUjdmKQ/s1600-h/DSC06594.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 164px; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423310866997770994" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N4f-Xq-vI/AAAAAAAAAOU/i2dSdUjdmKQ/s200/DSC06594.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N4gHLEj2I/AAAAAAAAAOc/FmMnc4bLq_0/s1600-h/Shoebox+Louboutin+Cake.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 134px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423310869360840546" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N4gHLEj2I/AAAAAAAAAOc/FmMnc4bLq_0/s200/Shoebox+Louboutin+Cake.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Be it books or shoes, may you all find something you love this year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-6534182474469732253?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/6534182474469732253/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2010/01/david-sedaris-and-christian-louboutin.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/6534182474469732253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/6534182474469732253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2010/01/david-sedaris-and-christian-louboutin.html' title='David Sedaris and Christian Louboutin'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/S0N4WuivvtI/AAAAAAAAAOM/ToRr9Oyihlg/s72-c/Magazine+Cake.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-885177555698464578</id><published>2009-11-20T13:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-20T13:26:29.159-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Sugary Celebrations</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 372px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SwcG05HV5SI/AAAAAAAAAN0/PfLZxPfLaXk/s400/IMG_0281.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406297383436150050" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;75th Birthday Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Dense lemon yellow cake; Coconut Frosting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Last month, my family celebrated the 75th birthdays of two of my grandparents. My aunt's house was filled with family, friends, and food. We feasted and were very merry. This cake represented a bougainvillea plant that my grandfather trained to be a tree in my grandparent's backyard. The sugar tree was made out of a gum paste trunk, frosted leaves, and gum paste sugar flowers in three colors. The end result was beautiful. Sadly, the only picture I got was on my phone and it didn't capture the impact of the cake very well. Next time, I'll be more prepared. (Hmmm... have I said that before?)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SwcG1Dut5lI/AAAAAAAAAN8/_LT34r3z9dw/s400/IMG_0285.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5406297386285655634" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Bridal Shower cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;made for Cynthia Gallagher, Cakes &amp;amp; More&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;This cake was designed to replicate a bride's wedding dress for her bridal shower. The bust of the dress was pleated (as was the fondant) with pearl buttons (pearl dragees) running the length of the back of the dress. I was very happy with the outcome of this cake. It was clean, sparkly, and stunning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Hasta luego.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-885177555698464578?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/885177555698464578/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/11/sugary-celebrations.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/885177555698464578'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/885177555698464578'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/11/sugary-celebrations.html' title='Sugary Celebrations'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SwcG05HV5SI/AAAAAAAAAN0/PfLZxPfLaXk/s72-c/IMG_0281.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-2420871678671517128</id><published>2009-10-07T17:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-07T17:24:49.035-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gold'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='feather'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Meaghan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birthday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blue'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chocolate'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='peacock'/><title type='text'>Meaghan's cake!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Ss0vEeF2CvI/AAAAAAAAANs/vK7jLUR2VIM/s1600-h/Peacock+Cake+Angle.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 376px; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390016082875910898" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Ss0vEeF2CvI/AAAAAAAAANs/vK7jLUR2VIM/s400/Peacock+Cake+Angle.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Meaghan's Peacock Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Irish Stout Chocolate Cake; Godiva Liqueur Frosting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This rich, chocolate cake was made for Meaghan's 23rd birthday as an homage to our long friendship (and a peacock feather headpiece that she wore to our senior dance). This cake posed a challenge because it had to survive the drive up I-35 to Austin without any help. Luckily, it only sustained minor damage and I was able to repair most of it once I got to her house. Painting the string work once I got there was pretty rough, though... Again, I seem to have to do everything the hard way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Ss0u-7UucHI/AAAAAAAAANk/QtwkO3Of8P8/s1600-h/Peacock+Cake+Top.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 198px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390015987643740274" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Ss0u-7UucHI/AAAAAAAAANk/QtwkO3Of8P8/s200/Peacock+Cake+Top.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Ss0u-B8N6GI/AAAAAAAAANc/sjCKYxxQ4Cg/s1600-h/Peacock+Cake+Front.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 160px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390015972240124002" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Ss0u-B8N6GI/AAAAAAAAANc/sjCKYxxQ4Cg/s200/Peacock+Cake+Front.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Peacock over and out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-2420871678671517128?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/2420871678671517128/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/10/meaghans-cake.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/2420871678671517128'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/2420871678671517128'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/10/meaghans-cake.html' title='Meaghan&apos;s cake!'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Ss0vEeF2CvI/AAAAAAAAANs/vK7jLUR2VIM/s72-c/Peacock+Cake+Angle.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-5861055842703402352</id><published>2009-09-28T13:09:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-28T13:19:32.650-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sugar flowers'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cupcakes'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pink'/><title type='text'>Cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SsEYliITheI/AAAAAAAAANU/-r-EtH_B6f8/s1600-h/Sugar+Flower+Pink+cupcakes+arial.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SsEYliITheI/AAAAAAAAANU/-r-EtH_B6f8/s320/Sugar+Flower+Pink+cupcakes+arial.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386613662407689698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lately, we've been drowning in cupcakes: vanilla cupcakes for a PINK party, red velvet cupcakes for a wedding, confetti cupcakes (with dinosaur sprinkles - so fun!)... the list goes on. These were some of the cupcakes we made for the Alamo Breast Cancer Foundation. There were about 60 total - pictured are chocolate/vanilla, strawberry/strawberry, vanilla/coconut, and lemon/coconut cupcakes, all decorated with sugar flowers.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SsEYliITheI/AAAAAAAAANU/-r-EtH_B6f8/s1600-h/Sugar+Flower+Pink+cupcakes+arial.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SsEYlMJ8CNI/AAAAAAAAANM/W4IdsXSQmEM/s1600-h/Sugar+Flower+pink+cupcakes.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SsEYlMJ8CNI/AAAAAAAAANM/W4IdsXSQmEM/s320/Sugar+Flower+pink+cupcakes.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5386613656508958930" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;More sugar flowers!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Sometimes there's nothing better than leftover cupcakes. Mmmmm...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-5861055842703402352?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/5861055842703402352/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/09/cupcakes-cupcakes-cupcakes.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/5861055842703402352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/5861055842703402352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/09/cupcakes-cupcakes-cupcakes.html' title='Cupcakes, cupcakes, cupcakes!'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SsEYliITheI/AAAAAAAAANU/-r-EtH_B6f8/s72-c/Sugar+Flower+Pink+cupcakes+arial.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-7880725251939481335</id><published>2009-09-04T21:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-04T22:16:11.851-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Medallions of Honor</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHuZkA0IYI/AAAAAAAAAM8/q2qylq0uYpE/s1600-h/DSC06500.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 400px; HEIGHT: 398px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377841552988316034" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHuZkA0IYI/AAAAAAAAAM8/q2qylq0uYpE/s400/DSC06500.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;21st Birthday Medallion Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Irish Stout chocolate cake; Godiva chocolate liqueur frosting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This cake, when we first received the order, was a little daunting. When a beauty queen's proud mother requested a cake for 30 with 21 unique medallions, a quote, and a bow, I was pretty nervous that it might end up looking cluttered and messy. I must admit that we were very happy to turn out such a fun cake that was so meaningful to the birthday girl and her mother.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHuiF1fjkI/AAAAAAAAANE/pziQJXnxfm4/s1600-h/DSC06490.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 211px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377841699506589250" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHuiF1fjkI/AAAAAAAAANE/pziQJXnxfm4/s320/DSC06490.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Edible Gumpaste Bow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;It's shiny and sparkley!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;This fun, feminine cake packed a pretty strong punch: Both the cake and the frosting had enough liquer in them that I joked with my co-workers about not drinking and driving after eating it. The result, though, was incredible. This has officially surpassed our vanilla cupcakes as my new favorite SHAM Bakery dessert.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Here are close-ups of some of our favorite medallions from the cake. It was really hard to choose since each of them got so much attention (each one was piped, then painted). I think the medallion with the quilted Chanel bag was my favorite, though. In order, they symbolized an angel, the Coast Guard, purses, a pageant crown, and Texas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHt5Cvr0LI/AAAAAAAAAMs/2SBP7Qbjdsw/s1600-h/DSC06471.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHuO26rc3I/AAAAAAAAAM0/sLq1da4XRqI/s1600-h/DSC06472.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 190px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377841369084294002" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHuO26rc3I/AAAAAAAAAM0/sLq1da4XRqI/s200/DSC06472.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHt4iRUKhI/AAAAAAAAAMk/ebow5dvoqUY/s1600-h/DSC06482.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 184px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377840985584970258" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHt4iRUKhI/AAAAAAAAAMk/ebow5dvoqUY/s200/DSC06482.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHt4P1XuII/AAAAAAAAAMc/GvO6k6pW_Bw/s1600-h/DSC06468.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 198px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377840980635924610" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHt4P1XuII/AAAAAAAAAMc/GvO6k6pW_Bw/s200/DSC06468.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHt3vzB6nI/AAAAAAAAAMU/qk3RSgZ9QT4/s1600-h/DSC06464.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 198px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377840972036172402" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHt3vzB6nI/AAAAAAAAAMU/qk3RSgZ9QT4/s200/DSC06464.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHt3GAB2VI/AAAAAAAAAMM/VO_rBz5tGfw/s1600-h/DSC06463.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 194px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377840960816404818" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHt3GAB2VI/AAAAAAAAAMM/VO_rBz5tGfw/s200/DSC06463.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;My 21st birthday included getting pepper sprayed by LAPD while completely sober.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Godiva chocolate frosting sounds a lot more appealling.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-7880725251939481335?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/7880725251939481335/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/09/medallions-of-honor.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/7880725251939481335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/7880725251939481335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/09/medallions-of-honor.html' title='Medallions of Honor'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SqHuZkA0IYI/AAAAAAAAAM8/q2qylq0uYpE/s72-c/DSC06500.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-3836678131999356551</id><published>2009-08-27T18:49:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-27T19:11:10.017-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='white'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wedding'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='wedding cake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='flower'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='peacock'/><title type='text'>I dough.</title><content type='html'>All throughout the learning stages of cake-ing, there has been one thing that has made Sydney and me nervous: the wedding cake. We love bright, vibrant colors and weird shapes (eye cake, anyone?) but we knew the day would come when we needed to buckle down and learn how to make white-on-white as cool as a tiki wearing a sombrero. I think we're well on our way...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 187px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Spc4LgiUgPI/AAAAAAAAALc/2I2TZaABv_k/s320/Peacock+cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374826450653577458" /&gt; &lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 310px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Spc4MCOqTNI/AAAAAAAAALk/9gy33Z0pvEM/s320/Peacock+2+close.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374826459697925330" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;White Peacock Wedding Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Spc4MwGfgnI/AAAAAAAAAL0/2877_RxkOp4/s1600-h/White+red+Wedding+cake+2.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This cake was - by far - my favorite of the wedding cakes we've done. The cake has some of the white-on-white curly piping that's popular on many traditional wedding cakes. Instead of just leaving it at that, however, we added white, gumpaste peacocks with pearly feathers. I can't wait to give this cake another go. The next time I do it, I want to have the two peacocks sitting on the top with their feathery tails cascading down opposite sides of the cake. It's going to be stunning! I can't wait for someone to order another cake like this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Spc4MYEGKRI/AAAAAAAAALs/bRchMN4pC4Y/s1600-h/White+purple+Wedding+Cake+2.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Spc4MYEGKRI/AAAAAAAAALs/bRchMN4pC4Y/s320/White+purple+Wedding+Cake+2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374826465559193874" /&gt; &lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Spc55tE_R_I/AAAAAAAAAL8/nGZR00VjYAo/s320/White+Purple+Wedding+cake+Top.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374828343805822962" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I have to draw attention to something freaky in the picture: doesn't it look like the cake is magically floating off the table. I swear it wasn't Photoshopped - just my poor photography skills, folks! The flowers on top were beautiful, purple gerbera daisies.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Spc4LgiUgPI/AAAAAAAAALc/2I2TZaABv_k/s1600-h/Peacock+cake.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 223px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Spc4MwGfgnI/AAAAAAAAAL0/2877_RxkOp4/s320/White+red+Wedding+cake+2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374826472011694706" /&gt; &lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 218px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Spc6MwJJazI/AAAAAAAAAME/uMu2qmAa4Tk/s320/White+red+Wedding+cake+top.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374828671046085426" /&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This cake was a traditional design - swirly, white piping on a white cake with white ribbon - that we funked up a little with pearly dragees. (You know those silver balls that you see on cakes sometimes and wonder, "Are those edible?" They are. And they're called dragees.) I probably would've added a thousand more swirlies but Sydney is good about reminding me that "less is more" and that I needn't add every curly accessory I can find just because I can.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Spc4LJ4-1zI/AAAAAAAAALU/D0JdN0OBTqI/s1600-h/Fall+Wedding+Cake.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 192px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Spc4LJ4-1zI/AAAAAAAAALU/D0JdN0OBTqI/s320/Fall+Wedding+Cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374826444574611250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;This was a very clean, modern wedding cake - perfect for those who want to feed a lot of people on a tighter budget. The focus of this cake was the flowers - perfect for a late summer or fall wedding.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Eat cake and be merry.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-3836678131999356551?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/3836678131999356551/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-dough.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/3836678131999356551'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/3836678131999356551'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/08/i-dough.html' title='I dough.'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Spc4LgiUgPI/AAAAAAAAALc/2I2TZaABv_k/s72-c/Peacock+cake.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-8126182742012443132</id><published>2009-08-24T11:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-24T11:44:27.875-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Feeling Hot! Hot! Hot!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;...and I'm not talking about the weather.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sometimes a good idea goes bad and there's nothing you can do about it. Okay, fine. It was totally preventable. How about this: Sometimes a good idea goes a little too far because you should've scaled down a bit, but it's really hard to pull back the reins on a good idea. Happy?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLcsZwhAhI/AAAAAAAAALE/YF0o_FiOJJg/s1600-h/Vegas+Sign+40+Cake+Top.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLcsZwhAhI/AAAAAAAAALE/YF0o_FiOJJg/s320/Vegas+Sign+40+Cake+Top.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373599960793154066" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLcr7JER7I/AAAAAAAAAK8/oBZkCVlCw1w/s1600-h/Vegas+Sign+40+Cake.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLcr7JER7I/AAAAAAAAAK8/oBZkCVlCw1w/s320/Vegas+Sign+40+Cake.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373599952574629810" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Before: 40th Birthday Vegas cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Vanilla cake; Vanilla buttercream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It started off innocently enough: a simple, Vegas-themed 40th birthday cake. We thought it would be really cool to put 40 candles around the cake (go ahead. count them.) so that when they were lit, it would look like the bulbs that go around the Vegas sign.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 186px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLcrlhbifI/AAAAAAAAAK0/hh7zHSyK4z0/s320/Vegas+Sign+40+Cake+Candles+Lit.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373599946771237362" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;P&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;t&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;y&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt; cool, right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;It looked pretty cool while I was lighting all the candles. This was, of course, until I realized how quickly the candles were burning and how slowly everyone was singing &lt;i&gt;Happy Birthday&lt;/i&gt;. (I mean, seriously, it's supposed to be a happy song so why do we sing it like a dirge?) I picked up the pace a little (Okay, you caught me again. I sang it so fast we probably sounded like Alvin and the Chipmunks.) and blew out most of the candles myself because THE CAKE WAS ON FIRE.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLcrJhY2hI/AAAAAAAAAKs/LnVciFWEwv0/s320/Vegas+Sign+40+Cake+Burned.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373599939254868498" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Aftermath of the Vegas Cake: A melty mess&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Here's the good news: We used marshmallow fondant so the room smelled like a warm, summer campfire. And hey, at least the melted wax landed on the cake board instead of the cake, right? Bad news: the birthday girl didn't have time to make a wish.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Next time, I'm bringing a fire extinguisher.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-8126182742012443132?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/8126182742012443132/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/08/feeling-hot-hot-hot.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/8126182742012443132'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/8126182742012443132'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/08/feeling-hot-hot-hot.html' title='Feeling Hot! Hot! Hot!'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLcsZwhAhI/AAAAAAAAALE/YF0o_FiOJJg/s72-c/Vegas+Sign+40+Cake+Top.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-6820672327603229916</id><published>2009-08-24T10:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-24T10:18:39.366-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dove'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paloma Blanca'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='logo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bakery'/><title type='text'>Let them eat enchiladas</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 240px; HEIGHT: 136px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373578407967488322" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLJF3OceUI/AAAAAAAAAKk/bJ4WVz-PTIw/s320/Paloma+Blanca+logo.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 379px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 324px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373577131900942706" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLH7lgeOXI/AAAAAAAAAKc/Qv1G89VXaHI/s400/Paloma+Blanca+Cake.JPG" /&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Paloma Blanca Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Chocolate cake; vanilla buttercream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;We have exciting news in the house of SHAM: Paloma Blanca has chosen us to be their unofficial cake bakery for events. Okay, that sounded pretty vague. Basically, when a client books a party and wants a cake that Paloma Blanca doesn't make, they'll send them to us! Woo hoo! To celebrate, we made an artsy logo cake for them. Nothing says do-business-with-us like free cake.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go to Paloma Blanca. Eat some of their awesome enchiladas (with an '09 margarita or two) and book a party!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLHzKutDuI/AAAAAAAAAKU/qaq-plgDxqw/s1600-h/Paloma+Blanca+Cake+front.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 150px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373576987273924322" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLHzKutDuI/AAAAAAAAAKU/qaq-plgDxqw/s200/Paloma+Blanca+Cake+front.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLHyp4Cv1I/AAAAAAAAAKM/n45MS0r1Dlo/s1600-h/Paloma+Blanca+Cake+top.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 194px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5373576978454724434" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLHyp4Cv1I/AAAAAAAAAKM/n45MS0r1Dlo/s200/Paloma+Blanca+Cake+top.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;Viva Mexican food!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-6820672327603229916?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/6820672327603229916/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/08/let-them-eat-enchiladas.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/6820672327603229916'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/6820672327603229916'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/08/let-them-eat-enchiladas.html' title='Let them eat enchiladas'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SpLJF3OceUI/AAAAAAAAAKk/bJ4WVz-PTIw/s72-c/Paloma+Blanca+logo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-7689547570630979495</id><published>2009-08-13T18:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-13T19:04:02.578-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Flour Power</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoTArjJAxcI/AAAAAAAAAKE/WcqRuj9svwI/s1600-h/Floral+Cake.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoTArjJAxcI/AAAAAAAAAKE/WcqRuj9svwI/s320/Floral+Cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369628510132422082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Floral Birthday Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Vanilla cake, vanilla buttercream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This, as you may figured out, is our first traditional-looking cake. Ta-da! Of course, we couldn't just make a cake with flowers made of frosting... No, we made edible sugar flowers by hand, painted them, and attached them to the border of the cake. I'm convinced that we don't actually know how to do anything the easy way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoTAfSDj74I/AAAAAAAAAJ8/S-_Zc7ps9ts/s1600-h/Floral+Cake+Sugar+Flowers.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 174px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoTAe1K9pvI/AAAAAAAAAJ0/Q1ic9_krV3Y/s200/Floral+Cake+TOP.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369628291634145010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; "&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoTAefHtjQI/AAAAAAAAAJs/7Dkoy5demjE/s1600-h/Floral+Cake+RIGHT.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 168px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoTAefHtjQI/AAAAAAAAAJs/7Dkoy5demjE/s200/Floral+Cake+RIGHT.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369628285714926850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 138px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoTAfSDj74I/AAAAAAAAAJ8/S-_Zc7ps9ts/s200/Floral+Cake+Sugar+Flowers.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369628299387727746" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Peace out, girl scout.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-7689547570630979495?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/7689547570630979495/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/08/floral-birthday-cake-vanilla-cake.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/7689547570630979495'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/7689547570630979495'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/08/floral-birthday-cake-vanilla-cake.html' title='Flour Power'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoTArjJAxcI/AAAAAAAAAKE/WcqRuj9svwI/s72-c/Floral+Cake.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-3891077601618795379</id><published>2009-08-10T16:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-10T16:57:50.212-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Eye Caramba!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoCwm93qdDI/AAAAAAAAAJk/BUhfbPDBroo/s1600-h/Eye+Cake.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 253px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoCwm93qdDI/AAAAAAAAAJk/BUhfbPDBroo/s320/Eye+Cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368484939315180594" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Eyeball Birthday Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Red Velvet cake with Cream Cheese frosting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;When asked to make an eye cake for a local optometrist, we didn't even flinch. "Of course! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Eye&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;'d love to," I responded, thinking I was very clever. I laughed, that is, until Sydney reminded me of something: eyes are spherical, not cake-ical.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;In the end, we made a charmingly spherical eye cake with a gorgeous hazel iris. We made an eye chart for good measure. We also came up with a delicious red velvet recipe which translates very well into little, red cupcakes. (Can you believe that I'm from the South and didn't even know if I liked red velvet cake until this project? As it turns out, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;eye&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt; do.) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoCwdaTTqkI/AAAAAAAAAJc/KCGF9OacTrc/s1600-h/Eye+Cake+2.JPG"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoCwdaTTqkI/AAAAAAAAAJc/KCGF9OacTrc/s1600-h/Eye+Cake+2.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 161px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoCwdaTTqkI/AAAAAAAAAJc/KCGF9OacTrc/s200/Eye+Cake+2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368484775148628546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoCwdDviu1I/AAAAAAAAAJU/dzghvOpS1M4/s1600-h/Eye+cake+iris.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 189px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoCwdDviu1I/AAAAAAAAAJU/dzghvOpS1M4/s200/Eye+cake+iris.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368484769093040978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoCwc4E4YhI/AAAAAAAAAJM/2PIvfZqKno8/s1600-h/Eye+cake+eye+chart.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 166px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoCwc4E4YhI/AAAAAAAAAJM/2PIvfZqKno8/s200/Eye+cake+eye+chart.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368484765961314834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;SEE you later!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-3891077601618795379?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/3891077601618795379/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/08/eye-caramba.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/3891077601618795379'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/3891077601618795379'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/08/eye-caramba.html' title='Eye Caramba!'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SoCwm93qdDI/AAAAAAAAAJk/BUhfbPDBroo/s72-c/Eye+Cake.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-4323809839083943787</id><published>2009-08-04T18:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-04T18:48:34.180-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fender'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='electric'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guitar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='string'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lightning bolt'/><title type='text'>Rock-n-rolling pin</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;...and yes, I'm embarrassed by my choice of title.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 192px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnjgGqJWReI/AAAAAAAAAIs/A9IZrFHm-4s/s400/Guitar+cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366285361009280482" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Lauren's 1st Fender Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Vanilla cake; vanilla buttercream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;When I got a message from one of my favorite high school teachers asking for his daughter's 16th birthday cake, I knew it had to be awesome. What I didn't know was that I'd end up making a life-size electric guitar out of vanilla cake. This cake was so accurate that Leo Fender, himself, wouldn't have known it wasn't real. That is, of course, until he realized ours is a little harder to tune...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 246px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnjiCUcKVJI/AAAAAAAAAI8/CywUJJE7ulU/s320/Guitar+cake+Fender.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366287485486388370" /&gt;  &lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnjiC-5RjOI/AAAAAAAAAJE/oGdLBpIXW2M/s320/Guitar+cake+body.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366287496882785506" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Some pretty nice knobs, if I say so myself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The trickiest part of this cake definitely lay in the string work. (Not string work in the culinary sense, fellow Food Network Challenge watchers - think more Rock &amp;amp; Roll.) Coming up with a string sceme wasn't too bad. Over-tightening them, however, was a little trickier than I thought. We also tweaked our vanilla cake recipe and it is amazing! I can't wait for the next round of family get-togethers to start showing it off.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here are some close-ups of other aspects of the guitar:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Snjd6atPyFI/AAAAAAAAAIU/VXiEWRDNTyw/s200/Guitar+cake+strings.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366282951683197010" /&gt; &lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 126px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Snjd6PLjxKI/AAAAAAAAAIM/McdNfi-vn2w/s200/Guitar+Cake+Fender+top.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366282948589110434" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt; &lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Snjd61rIT4I/AAAAAAAAAIc/lhKHHxzjbD4/s200/Guitar+cake+message.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366282958922076034" /&gt; &lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Snjd5TOfvtI/AAAAAAAAAH8/ztW2091BNxA/s200/Guitar+Cake+close.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5366282932495302354" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;-Billy Joel&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-4323809839083943787?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/4323809839083943787/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/08/rock-n-rolling-pin.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/4323809839083943787'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/4323809839083943787'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/08/rock-n-rolling-pin.html' title='Rock-n-rolling pin'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnjgGqJWReI/AAAAAAAAAIs/A9IZrFHm-4s/s72-c/Guitar+cake.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-3698622127151312007</id><published>2009-07-30T18:34:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-31T12:45:13.275-07:00</updated><title type='text'>What's black and blue and gray all over?</title><content type='html'>The new SHAM Bakery T-Shirts!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJSVbF-WBI/AAAAAAAAAHU/L2vjsFiN9do/s1600-h/SHAM+Bakery+Shirt+Colors.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 145px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364440634155227154" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJSVbF-WBI/AAAAAAAAAHU/L2vjsFiN9do/s400/SHAM+Bakery+Shirt+Colors.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Hanes 100% Cotton, $19.00&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Guaranteed to enhance the street cred of its wearer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;It's official! SHAM Bakery T-shirts are in... and they're just as cool as we'd hoped. We carry them in sizes S-L, and at &lt;strong&gt;$19.00&lt;/strong&gt; per shirt, they're gonna go fast! Available colors: Black, Heather gray, and Light Blue. To order a shirt, email us at &lt;a href="mailto:LaurenMagee@ymail.com"&gt;LaurenMagee@ymail.com&lt;/a&gt; or give us a call at 210-872-8255. We're happy to hook you up with SHAM goods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJOU31maAI/AAAAAAAAAG8/HRZgDvj547Q/s1600-h/SHAM+Bakery+Shirt+Front.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 255px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364436226644797442" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJOU31maAI/AAAAAAAAAG8/HRZgDvj547Q/s320/SHAM+Bakery+Shirt+Front.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Front of Shirt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJOVF0k3AI/AAAAAAAAAHE/FymR8f5Den8/s1600-h/SHAM+Bakery+Shirt+Back.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 138px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364436230398598146" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJOVF0k3AI/AAAAAAAAAHE/FymR8f5Den8/s320/SHAM+Bakery+Shirt+Back.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Back of Shirt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Our T-shirts are incredibly versatile. When we got them, they wanted to do all sorts of things. Here are pictures of our T-shirts doing fun things like hiding from the camera, sneaking behind a tree, jumping for joy, and leaning like a chola.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJTpkSCwrI/AAAAAAAAAHk/FpVxjbXg_Rs/s1600-h/SB+shirt+hand+block.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 160px; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364442079730778802" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJTpkSCwrI/AAAAAAAAAHk/FpVxjbXg_Rs/s200/SB+shirt+hand+block.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJOHY_4PbI/AAAAAAAAAGs/EOGerlqHc9o/s1600-h/SB+shirt+hiding.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 117px; HEIGHT: 185px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364435995028110770" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJOHY_4PbI/AAAAAAAAAGs/EOGerlqHc9o/s200/SB+shirt+hiding.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJOGxOLP1I/AAAAAAAAAGc/gwst8KaIuf8/s1600-h/SB+shirt+celebrating.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 200px; HEIGHT: 147px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364435984350658386" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJOGxOLP1I/AAAAAAAAAGc/gwst8KaIuf8/s200/SB+shirt+celebrating.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJOHvkv4wI/AAAAAAAAAG0/Gl7W-G3V-rw/s1600-h/SB+shirt+laughing.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJTbr9mQ4I/AAAAAAAAAHc/NY9gdwm4c7Y/s1600-h/SB+shirt+leaning.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 94px; HEIGHT: 200px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364441841274340226" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJTbr9mQ4I/AAAAAAAAAHc/NY9gdwm4c7Y/s200/SB+shirt+leaning.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday, I challenged someone to a "T-shirt off".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;I should choose my words more carefully.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-3698622127151312007?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/3698622127151312007/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/07/t-shirts.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/3698622127151312007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/3698622127151312007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/07/t-shirts.html' title='What&apos;s black and blue and gray all over?'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnJSVbF-WBI/AAAAAAAAAHU/L2vjsFiN9do/s72-c/SHAM+Bakery+Shirt+Colors.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-5621246447029473975</id><published>2009-07-29T20:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-29T20:24:36.215-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My favorite part of a giraffe is its neener-neeners</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnENCFlSHoI/AAAAAAAAAFM/vdnk1if8H5s/s320/Giraffe+Cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364082960684424834" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 289px; height: 320px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Giraffe Birthday Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Chocolate cake; Rice Krispies; Vanilla Buttercream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Last week, we celebrated the 14th birthday of the "H" in SHAM Bakery - our sister, Haley. She asked for a giraffe cake and boy did she get one! Standing at 24" tall, this project made me wish I'd majored in architecture in college.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnENCa6Lf9I/AAAAAAAAAFU/n5plBl4rDtc/s320/Giraffe+cake+message.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364082966409215954" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Happy Birthday, Little One!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Did you know the little nubs on a giraffe's head (which we at the bakery dubbed "neener-neeners") are horns? One of my favorite things about running a bakery is that I've become a sort of jack-of-all-trades. I can tell you intimate details about the internal architecture of a piano, what the face of a tiki tells you about its god, and yet I can come with no reason why a giraffe should be able to stand (much less walk!) on such skinny, little legs. One of life's many mysteries, I suppose.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Here are a few extra pictures you can check out:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnEQAHcK10I/AAAAAAAAAGE/IY3086uJj2s/s1600-h/Giraffe+back+of+head.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnEQAHcK10I/AAAAAAAAAGE/IY3086uJj2s/s200/Giraffe+back+of+head.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364086225358214978" style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnEQASRkPaI/AAAAAAAAAGM/ntnhNLxsAwA/s1600-h/Giraffe+cake+angled.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnEQASRkPaI/AAAAAAAAAGM/ntnhNLxsAwA/s200/Giraffe+cake+angled.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364086228266532258" style="cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 200px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnEP_-kC__I/AAAAAAAAAF8/BuDx1skLmD0/s1600-h/Giraffe+Tail.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnEP_-kC__I/AAAAAAAAAF8/BuDx1skLmD0/s200/Giraffe+Tail.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364086222975336434" style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnEQAla-TxI/AAAAAAAAAGU/AWbUJ02rmvc/s1600-h/Giraffe+eye.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnEQAla-TxI/AAAAAAAAAGU/AWbUJ02rmvc/s200/Giraffe+eye.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364086233406263058" style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ciao.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-5621246447029473975?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/5621246447029473975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-favorite-part-of-giraffe-is-its.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/5621246447029473975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/5621246447029473975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/07/my-favorite-part-of-giraffe-is-its.html' title='My favorite part of a giraffe is its neener-neeners'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SnENCFlSHoI/AAAAAAAAAFM/vdnk1if8H5s/s72-c/Giraffe+Cake.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-8222066091159349283</id><published>2009-07-20T17:31:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-20T17:48:52.353-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Beam me up, Sydney!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SmUNcW9FoMI/AAAAAAAAAE0/eCA-SJw2ZD4/s320/Star+Trek+Amok+Time+cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360705712303743170" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "&gt;Star Trek "Amok Time" cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A few weeks ago, we found ourselves making a geocaching cake for a little girl's birthday party. This week, it was a 1st generation Star Trek cake for a little boy's party. Stone, like many people in the 1960's, is OBSESSED with Star Trek. And he is quite the dedicated little Trekkie - he specifically asked his mom for a Star Trek cake like from "the scene where Kirk and Spock are fighting over the mean lady who didn't even want Spock." Too cute to say no to!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 149px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SmUPZ2GRQJI/AAAAAAAAAFE/-hfQOVXqcD8/s320/Amok+ring.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360707868147400850" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The Vulcan planet in the Star Trek episode, "Amok Time"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;where all the action of the cake takes place&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 242px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SmUNcpuhQwI/AAAAAAAAAE8/DJQeoWKdUCc/s320/Star+Trek+Amok+Time+cake+2.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360705717342913282" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;One of the Star Trek aficionados at the party marveled at how we "captured the low-budget style of the original series" in the scenery. Rice Krispies saved the day yet again. The best part of this cake was seeing the birthday boy light up when he saw his cake... and when he laughed himself silly at the thought of &lt;i&gt;eating&lt;/i&gt; Captain Kirk (which he did with great pleasure - sorry William Shatner).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Live long and prosper.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-8222066091159349283?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/8222066091159349283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/07/beam-me-up-sydney.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/8222066091159349283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/8222066091159349283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/07/beam-me-up-sydney.html' title='Beam me up, Sydney!'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SmUNcW9FoMI/AAAAAAAAAE0/eCA-SJw2ZD4/s72-c/Star+Trek+Amok+Time+cake.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-1786829989245429521</id><published>2009-07-12T21:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-12T21:48:28.890-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='giraffe'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='engine'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='train'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='caboose'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lion'/><title type='text'>Chugga Chugga Chugga Chugga Chew! Chew!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SlqvWCFIAFI/AAAAAAAAAEs/pGVugnjLtnY/s1600-h/Train+Birthday+cake.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 167px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SlqvWCFIAFI/AAAAAAAAAEs/pGVugnjLtnY/s400/Train+Birthday+cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357787499760975954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Train Birthday Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;2 Chocolate, 2 Vanilla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;We got a call a few weeks ago from a woman planning her son's 1st birthday party. She didn't have a set theme so she gave us free reign to come up with our own for her little boy's 1st cake. Boy, did we have fun. We decided to go with a circus train theme and couldn't be happier with the final outcome. For a little perspective, think about this: the cake board was 3 feet wide and a foot and a half deep.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Slqu9J6PxCI/AAAAAAAAAEc/DFgHkliNoyQ/s320/Train+animal+car+cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357787072366101538" /&gt;  &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Slqu86w7vBI/AAAAAAAAAEU/SvUi8CGblzQ/s1600-h/Train+giraffe+car+cake.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 298px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Slqu86w7vBI/AAAAAAAAAEU/SvUi8CGblzQ/s320/Train+giraffe+car+cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357787068300508178" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Look at all the cute circus animals that Sydney made!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Chocolate, Vanilla&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;W&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;e&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; 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It was well worth the time we put into it as it lends a whole new element to the cake.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Slqu86w7vBI/AAAAAAAAAEU/SvUi8CGblzQ/s1600-h/Train+giraffe+car+cake.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Slqu9alxjCI/AAAAAAAAAEk/RM-YJJnwDqA/s320/Train+birthday+mini+cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357787076843637794" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;Chocolate baby cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Tracy, Jack's mother, had a great idea: she wanted a small, plain cake that baby Jack could eat with his hands. We made this small iced cake as a response to that. I think it's a great idea for early birthdays - you know they're just gonna stick their cute little hands in it anyway, so this was a good defensive tactic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;The L-Train has left the station.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-1786829989245429521?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/1786829989245429521/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/07/chugga-chugga-chugga-chugaa-chew-chew.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/1786829989245429521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/1786829989245429521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/07/chugga-chugga-chugga-chugaa-chew-chew.html' title='Chugga Chugga Chugga Chugga Chew! Chew!'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SlqvWCFIAFI/AAAAAAAAAEs/pGVugnjLtnY/s72-c/Train+Birthday+cake.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-7852108702967695124</id><published>2009-07-12T21:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-12T21:44:54.202-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 225px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/Slq08TdBDaI/AAAAAAAAACM/9TDqputlMVI/s320/Fishing+boat+cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357793654817754530" /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Fishing Boat Birthday Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Yellow cake with Vanilla buttercream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"&gt;Last week was my cousin, Ty's, 10th birthday, which he spent fishing. Here's where the cake comes in: Ty loves loves loves to fish. I love love love to make cakes. Voila! A match made in heaven. The yellow cake featured little fishies swimming along the sides and a Rice Krispie sailboat sitting on top. Love, Sydney.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/Slq08zIC1GI/AAAAAAAAACU/HCfWQ1mx3KU/s1600-h/Fishing+cake+fish+closeup.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/Slq08zIC1GI/AAAAAAAAACU/HCfWQ1mx3KU/s1600-h/Fishing+cake+fish+closeup.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 257px; " src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/Slq08zIC1GI/AAAAAAAAACU/HCfWQ1mx3KU/s320/Fishing+cake+fish+closeup.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357793663319725154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Catch ya later.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-7852108702967695124?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/7852108702967695124/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/07/fishing-boat-birthday-cake-yellow-cake.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/7852108702967695124'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/7852108702967695124'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/07/fishing-boat-birthday-cake-yellow-cake.html' title=''/><author><name>Sydney</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01181533295667464446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjcRCbMlSZI/AAAAAAAAAAU/xNlnfgQNP10/S220/n1540680101_30426544_8742.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/Slq08TdBDaI/AAAAAAAAACM/9TDqputlMVI/s72-c/Fishing+boat+cake.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-290632395277588159</id><published>2009-07-09T14:17:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-09T15:10:09.887-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Garmin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='geocache'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='treasure'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iPod'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='GPS'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='headphones'/><title type='text'>It's like a scavenger hunt for grown-ups</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SlZgbhRrxKI/AAAAAAAAAD0/mLU0D-3yRZs/s1600-h/Geocaching+GPS+iPod+Treasure+Cake.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 397px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 299px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356574832709059746" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SlZgbhRrxKI/AAAAAAAAAD0/mLU0D-3yRZs/s320/Geocaching+GPS+iPod+Treasure+Cake.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Geocache Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Chocolate, Rice Krispie, Vanilla&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;To most of you, the cake above probably made you say something like, "Huh? What were they thinking?" To a sub-population of people known as geocachers, however, this cake is perfectly clear. My little sister, Melody, is one of these people and all she wanted for her birthday was a geocaching cake. When she goes on these adventures, Melody (aka FastyCheetah) and her aunt (LuckyDucky) take two things along with them : a Garmin handheld GPS and an iPod with cache coordinates on it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SlZgbV_1aeI/AAAAAAAAADs/xyFqj-ZUghY/s1600-h/Treasure+Cache+Cake.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356574829681404386" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SlZgbV_1aeI/AAAAAAAAADs/xyFqj-ZUghY/s320/Treasure+Cache+Cake.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Treasure Cache&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Rice Krispie cake&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The "wooden" Rice Krispie treasure cache was a huge hit with all the kids at Melody's birthday party. They fought over who ate the most "money" while the adults marveled at how much time it took to cut and paint each coin individually - props to Sydney. (Personally, I liked the fabulous jewels lying with the money.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SlZga61ncnI/AAAAAAAAADk/uVXGUMLOvak/s1600-h/White+iPod+cake.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 240px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5356574822390788722" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SlZga61ncnI/AAAAAAAAADk/uVXGUMLOvak/s320/White+iPod+cake.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;iPod Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Yellow Cake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The iPod cake was my favorite part of the geocaching cake. I don't know about you, but when I got my iPod a few years ago, it went everywhere with me - it was practically another appendage - so this was a particularly fun project. The sides of the iPod were painted with edible metallic food coloring and looked pretty sweet (pun intended) in the light.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Beam me up, Scotty.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-290632395277588159?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/290632395277588159/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-like-scavenger-hunt-for-grown-ups.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/290632395277588159'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/290632395277588159'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/07/its-like-scavenger-hunt-for-grown-ups.html' title='It&apos;s like a scavenger hunt for grown-ups'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/SlZgbhRrxKI/AAAAAAAAAD0/mLU0D-3yRZs/s72-c/Geocaching+GPS+iPod+Treasure+Cake.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-6983936060950893831</id><published>2009-06-15T21:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-15T21:42:28.057-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='surprise'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tiki'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sombrero'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='birthday'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tiger lily'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lei'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Disaronno'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='luau'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hawaiian'/><title type='text'>Yee Haw-loha!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjcbdwKpePI/AAAAAAAAABY/v1F988K_L_8/s1600-h/Texas+Luau+Tiki+Cake.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 258px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347773280485472498" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjcbdwKpePI/AAAAAAAAABY/v1F988K_L_8/s320/Texas+Luau+Tiki+Cake.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;It's quickly becoming our signature cake.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This cake was commissioned by Sir Stevens for his wife's surprise birthday party. The theme was "Texas Luau" and he called with a definite idea of what he wanted on his cake. He specifically asked for a happy tiki wearing a sombrero, a lei, and a bottle of Disaronno (his wife's favorite drink).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 270px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347773289163706898" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjcbeQfs0hI/AAAAAAAAABg/Rxh_x0hdFOg/s320/Tiki+Cake+Details.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This cake was - among other things - enormous. The sheer size of the cake, along with all the details, led to an unforseen challenge: transporting a cake that weighed at least 50 pounds. I'm prone to exaggerating but this is the gosh-darn truth: this cake weighted &lt;em&gt;at least&lt;/em&gt; 50 pounds. It also measured about 15" tall and 20" wide.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjceSSPgH-I/AAAAAAAAACA/lFwN0QlVatY/s1600-h/Gum+Paste+Sombrero.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 222px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347776382009090018" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjceSSPgH-I/AAAAAAAAACA/lFwN0QlVatY/s320/Gum+Paste+Sombrero.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This sombrero was about a foot wide and piping and painting of the hat took about 2 hours. All details - designs, stitching, etc. - were piped in icing and painted a shimmery gold. It was as good to eat as it was to look at; the hat was filled with Rice Krispie treats. (In other news, "Rice Krispie" is one of the ugliest brand names I can think of. I take that back. It comes in a close second behind "Funyun". It hurts my heart a little.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjcbdyNSuQI/AAAAAAAAABQ/iV0QHj10MFU/s1600-h/Gum+paste+Tiger+Lily.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 312px; HEIGHT: 320px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347773281033435394" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjcbdyNSuQI/AAAAAAAAABQ/iV0QHj10MFU/s320/Gum+paste+Tiger+Lily.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Gum paste tiger lily&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you later, aldergator.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-6983936060950893831?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/6983936060950893831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/06/yee-haw-loha_15.html#comment-form' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/6983936060950893831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/6983936060950893831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/06/yee-haw-loha_15.html' title='Yee Haw-loha!'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjcbdwKpePI/AAAAAAAAABY/v1F988K_L_8/s72-c/Texas+Luau+Tiki+Cake.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-398638650170083960</id><published>2009-06-15T20:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-15T21:00:08.067-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='igloo'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='penguin'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sponge cake'/><title type='text'>This cake is - BBRRR! - cool</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjcR8rfRCwI/AAAAAAAAABI/2uBD0m8U1ww/s1600-h/DSC02043.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 274px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347762816689441538" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjcR8rfRCwI/AAAAAAAAABI/2uBD0m8U1ww/s320/DSC02043.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Sponge cake with vanilla frosting&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;This was just a fun project to keep me and Lauren entertained between cakes. Our first carved cake, standing at a reMArkable 10" tall, was an ode to the outrageously warm weather we've been having here. It's pretty tough transporting a cake when the heat index is 104!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjcR24WbmNI/AAAAAAAAABA/EVqKqxgE9KU/s1600-h/DSC02039.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 320px; HEIGHT: 249px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347762717062830290" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjcR24WbmNI/AAAAAAAAABA/EVqKqxgE9KU/s320/DSC02039.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br&gt;Here's lookin' at you, kid.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-398638650170083960?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/398638650170083960/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-cake-is-bbrrr-cool.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/398638650170083960'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/398638650170083960'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/06/this-cake-is-bbrrr-cool.html' title='This cake is - BBRRR! - cool'/><author><name>Sydney</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/01181533295667464446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjcRCbMlSZI/AAAAAAAAAAU/xNlnfgQNP10/S220/n1540680101_30426544_8742.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IwmH0cILaBM/SjcR8rfRCwI/AAAAAAAAABI/2uBD0m8U1ww/s72-c/DSC02043.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-7008120810592356053</id><published>2009-06-08T09:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T16:31:59.915-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='angel food'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Altered States'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sandcastle'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='piano'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ace of Cakes'/><title type='text'>If they can do it, we can do it BETTER</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1kL9SEwsI/AAAAAAAAAC4/yJLBw7zJ-PA/s1600-h/Gum+Paste+Roses+on+Piano.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1kL9SEwsI/AAAAAAAAAC4/yJLBw7zJ-PA/s320/Gum+Paste+Roses+on+Piano.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345038489350357698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1jw4AuGaI/AAAAAAAAACo/eXyl5XAm-Bs/s1600-h/Bechstein+Piano+Cake.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1gpZrlIEI/AAAAAAAAACg/dcef8ktEor8/s1600-h/IMG_0179.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;My sister and partner in this SHAM of a bakery, Sydney, and I have been watching Ace of Cakes and Food Network Challenge for a few months now... not to marvel at their creations, but to study their technique and figure out how to do it better. From there, we started baking cakes. It's a new endeavor so these are just our first four.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cake #1&lt;/span&gt;: Sandcastle Cake for Hayley Simms's 22nd Birthday&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si09AXCx_-I/AAAAAAAAABg/ePa3eNfaXac/s1600-h/IMG_0171.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si09AXCx_-I/AAAAAAAAABg/ePa3eNfaXac/s320/IMG_0171.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344995409153621986" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;Chocolate cake with buttercream frosting&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In this cake, we were learning how to fondant a cake - and yes, I use fondant as a verb. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The sand here is made of crushed graham crackers - which we mixed with a little sumthin' sumthin' to make it even yummier.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Everything here is edible. Well, I wouldn't eat the cake board but I guess technically, you could. I've never eaten cardboard so I can't tell you how it tastes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cake #2&lt;/span&gt;: Altered States Cake for our favorite Blockbuster dude&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1gpZrlIEI/AAAAAAAAACg/dcef8ktEor8/s320/IMG_0179.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345034597143224386" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;Vanilla, vanilla, chocolate&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If you haven't seen the 1980 film Altered States, get out your Blockbuster card because you need to see it... not because the film is fantastic, but because you'll need the background info to understand this cake.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The flames on the base are freakin' awesome if I do say so myself. This was where we first learned how to paint cakes. Props to Sydney for pulling it off so well on the flames. The 2nd tier represents the scene where the main character takes peote in Mexico. The 3rd tier shows the end of the movie where all hell breaks loose and the main characters turn all lava-y and static-y (woo! 1980s graphics!). The eye on the top... is just really cool.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cake #3&lt;/span&gt;: Ruth Berg's Birthday Cake&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1cSMsPPZI/AAAAAAAAABo/Rvj6Kd8CY3s/s1600-h/DSC06244.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1cSMsPPZI/AAAAAAAAABo/Rvj6Kd8CY3s/s320/DSC06244.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345029800472821138" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 279px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Angel Food.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Never again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cake #4&lt;/span&gt;: Bechstein Piano Cake&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1jw4AuGaI/AAAAAAAAACo/eXyl5XAm-Bs/s320/Bechstein+Piano+Cake.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345038024078924194" style="float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 282px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Chocolate cake with buttercream frosting - our absolute favorite. Soooo good!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The cake was 18" long and 14" wide.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We were ridiculously excited that this piano cake was our fourth cake. It did, however, take us an inordinate amount of time. We definitely have room to improve there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1kLuR_J0I/AAAAAAAAACw/k8uc0MhfMrc/s1600-h/Piano+Cake+Inside.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1kLuR_J0I/AAAAAAAAACw/k8uc0MhfMrc/s320/Piano+Cake+Inside.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345038485323458370" style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 249px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1fvuSC8MI/AAAAAAAAACY/QuIifYYUTiQ/s1600-h/DSC06255.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our best yet. We took pictures of Mrs. Berg's piano and made this cake to match it exactly. We took pictures of the piano's insides and duplicated it out of edible goodness.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1fvuSC8MI/AAAAAAAAACY/QuIifYYUTiQ/s1600-h/DSC06255.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1fvuSC8MI/AAAAAAAAACY/QuIifYYUTiQ/s320/DSC06255.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345033606240858306" style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 238px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cake#5&lt;/span&gt;: Surprise birthday cake... coming soon!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-7008120810592356053?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/7008120810592356053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/06/if-they-can-do-it-we-can-do-it-better.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/7008120810592356053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/7008120810592356053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/06/if-they-can-do-it-we-can-do-it-better.html' title='If they can do it, we can do it BETTER'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si1kL9SEwsI/AAAAAAAAAC4/yJLBw7zJ-PA/s72-c/Gum+Paste+Roses+on+Piano.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-5656201522625801876</id><published>2009-06-08T09:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T09:26:02.621-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='competition'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='throwdown'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cupcake'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rolling stones'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='offspring'/><title type='text'>Cupcake Throwdown</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si069i9xLaI/AAAAAAAAABY/Xt3HXLEpn_s/s1600-h/DSC02038.JPG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last April, we were challenged (via Facebook) to a cupcake throwdown. We were given a week to create 24 cupcakes that fit somewhere into 24 categories. The competition was judged by 3 people (all of whom I suspected to be rooting for the enemy... there may have been some sugary bribery going on behind closed doors).&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here's a sampling of our entries and the categories we chose:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fruits/Vegetables:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si06BoGrCJI/AAAAAAAAABA/TXmNzH_NI1Q/s1600-h/DSC01969.JPG"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si06BoGrCJI/AAAAAAAAABA/TXmNzH_NI1Q/s320/DSC01969.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344992132378331282" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 292px; " /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left; "&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Band Logos:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si06a5-5jaI/AAAAAAAAABQ/OzquAGoMVLQ/s1600-h/DSC02017.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 301px; " src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si06a5-5jaI/AAAAAAAAABQ/OzquAGoMVLQ/s320/DSC02017.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344992566674296226" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The Offspring&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si06awH1jzI/AAAAAAAAABI/f8pu2fbp4eA/s1600-h/DSC02011.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si06awH1jzI/AAAAAAAAABI/f8pu2fbp4eA/s320/DSC02011.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344992564027428658" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;Rolling Stones&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Some of our final picks for the competition:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); "&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si069i9xLaI/AAAAAAAAABY/Xt3HXLEpn_s/s320/DSC02038.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344993161790959010" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px; " /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;The bottom two ended up being the Sphinx and Spaghetti with a giant meatball&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;In the end, we won with a vote of 3-0. Woo hoo!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-5656201522625801876?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/5656201522625801876/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/06/cupcake-throwdown.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/5656201522625801876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/5656201522625801876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/06/cupcake-throwdown.html' title='Cupcake Throwdown'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si06BoGrCJI/AAAAAAAAABA/TXmNzH_NI1Q/s72-c/DSC01969.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4368022180631080672.post-3164980925129053781</id><published>2009-06-08T09:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-08T09:14:38.623-07:00</updated><title type='text'>It's a SHAM!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;No it's not. It's SHAM Bakery - our newest artistic endeavor. We want to be known for making the most outrageous cakes San Antonio has ever seen. Better yet, the most outrageous cakes Texas - no, the WORLD - has ever seen. Also, we make some killer cupcakes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si04j5gfh_I/AAAAAAAAAA4/fM-UonmFs8A/s1600-h/IMG_0089.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si04j5gfh_I/AAAAAAAAAA4/fM-UonmFs8A/s320/IMG_0089.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344990522142328818" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;My first attempt at cupcake pops. Mmmm... so good!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4368022180631080672-3164980925129053781?l=shambakery.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/feeds/3164980925129053781/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/06/its-sham.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/3164980925129053781'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4368022180631080672/posts/default/3164980925129053781'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://shambakery.blogspot.com/2009/06/its-sham.html' title='It&apos;s a SHAM!'/><author><name>Lauren</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04516171168848733778</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='22' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si0021ukwpI/AAAAAAAAAAY/4MIWhtn2KjQ/S220/DSC04583_1.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__bxuCioya2o/Si04j5gfh_I/AAAAAAAAAA4/fM-UonmFs8A/s72-c/IMG_0089.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
