I suppose it started with my grandmother. She decorated cakes for weddings as a source of side income on occassion, the big old-fashioned tiered and pillared things with plastic swans and cherubs and bride-and-groom statues and three cubic feet of royal icing. She made the cakes for all eight of her children when they got married (four sons, four daughters). My mother was one if the "middle children" and often got to help, so she knew a lot if the skills too, and passed them on to me. So I would get creative with birthday cakes and with cookies at Christmas and that sort of thing just for fun. When my brother was getting married just over 5 years ago, he and his wife were trying to keep a small budget and asked if I would be willing to try to make a cake for them, and that was my first foray into the realm of fondant! I just gave it a whirl and it went great, so now I keep on doing it! I have yet to get paid for a cake at this point, but I've only ever done cakes that I would consider to be a "gift" anyways.
That makes for great memories, and maybe you can pass the skills down to your girls too! It’s nice of you to gift all those cakes! But I’m sure you enjoy the work :)
I suppose it started with my grandmother. She decorated cakes for weddings as a source of side income on occassion, the big old-fashioned tiered and pillared things with plastic swans and cherubs and bride-and-groom statues and three cubic feet of royal icing. She made the cakes for all eight of her children when they got married (four sons, four daughters). My mother was one if the "middle children" and often got to help, so she knew a lot if the skills too, and passed them on to me. So I would get creative with birthday cakes and with cookies at Christmas and that sort of thing just for fun. When my brother was getting married just over 5 years ago, he and his wife were trying to keep a small budget and asked if I would be willing to try to make a cake for them, and that was my first foray into the realm of fondant! I just gave it a whirl and it went great, so now I keep on doing it! I have yet to get paid for a cake at this point, but I've only ever done cakes that I would consider to be a "gift" anyways.
That makes for great memories, and maybe you can pass the skills down to your girls too! It’s nice of you to gift all those cakes! But I’m sure you enjoy the work :)