My past...

Nope, no gory details of my actual past...just pictures of past cakes!  This is a cake blog, not some hot, steamy romance novel or mystery thriller (not that my past is either of those things).  Sorry to disappoint.  Now, about those pictures...  These are totally random pictures of a few different cakes I've done, most of them years ago.  My sister and I have teamed up on a few wonderful wedding cakes and my sister just recently did a really awesome "Mater" stacked tire cake.  I need to find some of those pictures for you; but for now you get these...

This last technique here is called "brush embroidery".  It makes a very elegant cake!  Imagine black on white icing, or what about white on red??  It's a very neat way to decorate.

As you can see, RL Cakes can decorate cakes using a number of different techniques and mediums!  We are familiar with using butter cream, fondant and gum paste.  We can make better sheetcakes, or beautiful tiered cakes.  Right now, in preparation for graduation season, we are offering you one of the BEST, most personalized, reflections of you that you can get in cake!  And if you refer a friend for their graduation cake, you get 10% off yours!  Refer 2 friends and get 20% off and on and on...  Now THAT'S a sweet deal!

Here is what this is:

*We are NOT a certified or licensed bakery.  We bake cakes out of our home kitchens and therefore do NOT advertise and do NOT charge for our work (though we will suggest a donation)*

This is what I feel I've been created to do.  It's what my Mom and sister are passionate about.  My Grandmother did it as often as she could.  It runs through my blood.  That thing is...

Baking.  My Grandmother baked and decorated cakes, my Mom's greatest gift is hospitality and guess what goes hand-in-hand with that...FOOD!  My Mom always has something on the stove and goodies on top of the fridge (lest little fingers reach them, eat them all and get a tummy ache).  My sister (the "L" in RL) took cake decorating classes before I did and her reputation is growing, and me (the "R" in RL), well, 

I'm the one that dreams of being an entrepreneur and so got a Bachelors Degree in Business only to realize it's a lot easier to dream about a business than it is to start one with a (somewhat) supportive husband and 9, 7, 6 and 3 year olds at home depending on my stay-at-home skills to give them a comfortable home and meals that are not only nutritious but somehow accommodate the vastly different tastes of said husband, 9, 7, 6 and 3 year olds!  Combine that with laundry, gardening, other cleaning and helping kiddos with homework and there's little time left to hunt for business resources (aka CASH-MONEY).

I will blog about my cakes and my sister's cakes and post lots of super cute pictures.  Then I'll ask YOU to request a cake from us and we'll make you a cake and blog about it and post lots of super cute pictures.  Then we'll take the 'suggested donation' we get from you for baking the cake of your dreams, and we'll stick it in a very special, super-secret bakery envelope.  In this way we'll earn and save money for our future Tomah bakery.

Oh, just you wait...you'll quickly realize how long we've been dreaming of this venture.  My Mom, sister and I can sit around and talk for hours!  I have a name,  most of a business plan, location, menu, plans for expansion, a full black accordion file full of regulations, phone numbers, Chamber of Commerce information.  You'll be amazed!  (And if you're not you'll ACT amazed).  But for now I must go.  I have - imagine this - a couple cakes I'm working on.  
For now I'll leave you with a picture of a cake.  This is one I did a few years ago for my bestest Dad ever, on his birthday.  Enjoy!