Another Teddy Bear Cake. (July 2001)

I did this for Joe's daughter. The idea was to make it look like her favorite toy, named "Bear". You can judge for yourself how good a job I did from the pix below. One nice thing is that the leg didn't fall off of this one as it did with the first bear I did. Thank GOD, because I'm super paranoid about cakes I bake for other people. They've really got to be perfect.

Problems:Not a one. Everything went very smoothly. The only problem is with the size of the cake--there are no boxes that will hold it!! Joe ended up taking it away in a large UPS carrier that Jerry lent me for the occasion.

The Last Day in my nice office. (July 2001)

Well, I was recently moved out of my very nice office, which was supposed to be my permanent office, so I was *not* happy about it, but I decided to make the best of things and have a small party on my last day before moving upto the 3rd floor of the library. This is the cake I made. It wasn't really planned out. It's a yellow cake I got the recipe from Cooks Illustrated, and I just threw the colors and design together at the last minute. The letters are just royal icing runouts, same as on the birthday cake I made for my mom (above). The symbol in the middle has no special meaning, and is just filling otherwise empty space.

July 4th Cake. (July 2001)

My first fondant cake. It turned out quite well, considering.