A special cake for a special friend and some thoughts...

This cake deserves a post of its own...

About 6 years ago, I found my soul mate! We met at a parents evening and since then she has been my best friend. She was here only for two years (a fact I didn’t give much notice to at the time) and once she went back to Israel, my heart broke! She is still my closest friend but we have a sea between us...
I suppose that this is the price you pay when you are surrounded by people that living here is not a permanent situation for them, but from that point on I swore that anyone who becomes my friend is someone who is here to stay (well...as least as long as I’m here ;-) ) as the pain of losing a close friend AGAIN is too hard to bear.

So...about two years ago, I met this lovely lady (at the kids school obviously...) and she was very nice, and smiley, and chatty and positive, but...being protective of my heart I asked her "how long are you here for?" and she replied..."not sure, but for a long time..." ! My heart gave me the thumbs up and off we went!
She became one of my closest friends and even a business partner!!
Our kids and husbands have become friends as well and all was good.
Or was it??? Yes you guessed…she is leaving 
I know we will remain good friends, but still I would miss her immensely!
A few months ago she celebrated her 40th birthday, and I made this cake for her with very much mixed feelings- sadness for her leaving but happy for having the pleasure of meeting her and becoming her friend. So this post and cake is dedicated to you good friend.
I do wish you all the best; I told you once that I think you were made for greatness- I meant it!
I’m sure you will be happy wherever you go as long as you are with your amazing husband and family.
Tali

Lessons-
1. Never say no to a good friendship, no matter how short it may be
2. Good friends can be also the icing on the cake…
3. If you have any connections with the airline your friend is going home with…don’t hesitate to pull some strings to cancel their flight…

HELLO KITTY AND JIMBO THE CLOWN CAKES

This time I’m not going to talk about the cake but about the reaction of the girls seeing the cakes for the first time...
I was helping their dad to put the cakes in the car...the 2 years old saw the "Jimbo the clown" cake and started screaming like she has just witnessed a miracle...I was over the moon!!
The 4 years old was pointing at the "Hello Kitty" cake and shouted "Kitty...Kitty...Kitty" as if she has just met a long lost friend...that was so funny...

That’s what I love about my job- the reward is immediate!

ZEBRA CAKE

I love it when children challenge me with ideas for new cakes.
I find that children have the most amazing imagination and they see things in such a different way than we do; they see the little details and have the ability to see something and appreciate its full beauty (shame they grow up and become predictable adults like us…)
Any way, in my wildest dreams I didn’t think I would ever do a Zebra cake!
But...along came Amy and she knew exactly what she wants...a Zebra cake.
So here it is...




Have a great sunny day!

BYE BYE DUMMY

At some point any toddler has to say goodbye to something precious as they grow up; the milk bottle, favourite blanket (blanky as my daughters call it), and the one and only, the thing that whoever invented it should get the peace NOBEL prize, the thing that restore quiet to any household
... The dummy!

This cake is for a very brave girl that for her 4th birthday decided to say goodbye to the dummy by asking me to make a "BYE BYE DUMMY” birthday cake.

Well done sweetie! You can do it!

So here it is:

MY CONTRIBUTION TO THE FOOTBALL WORLD CUP 2010

Football is not really my thing! Sorry, and I don’t mean to offend anyone but I can’t find any pleasure of 90 min (at least...) of men (some of them are very good looking indeed...) running after a ball and then...on top of it all the winner is being chosen by penalties!!! What’s the point?
A good friend of mine told me “we play football for 90 min and then Germany wins..."- I think that this sums up this world cup.

But... a lovely young boy (6 years old to be precise) is a huge football fan and for his birthday he asked me to make a cake of an official "Adidas Jabulani FIFA world cup football 2010”.
So here it is, and I think that for a non football fan like me that’s a BIG contribution to the football world cup spirit!



and a close up

LUCIE'S CONFIRMATION FLOWER CAKE

I made this cake for a lovely, very talented and bubbly 13 years old girl.

she asked for something cute and summery, classy and elegant yet not to wedding like cake...

This is what I came up with and I am very happy with the result, I hope you like it as well...

In close up...

And another one...

I loved every minute of making this cake (and a lot of "minutes" went into this cake...)

I love my job!

I know I haven’t been here for a while, and no good excuses are to be found besides the fact that between 3 children (well 4...), work and daily chores, sometimes it’s a bit difficult to stay on top of things.

So...what have I been doing lately?
some really cool cooking courses: Passover cooking demo with some really easy to make and impressive recipes (focaccia bread for example...),

"Milky way" demo that was all about dairy cooking followed by 2 short amazing talks; one about coffee by a coffee expert and another about table settings by an interior designer...great evenings with good food and great atmosphere.

In between, I made some cakes, gave cake decorating courses, beginners and advanced, kids cooking classes etc.

Here are some pictures of the stuff I have been doing lately (sorry for the poor quality of the pictures)



A fairy cake;



This is a dinosaur cake I made recently -
I call it "the friendly dinosaur", cute, ha?

And a closer look..




A bowling cake-



And a closer look...



and some pictures from the "Milky Way" demo;





Here I'm making some vegi pie with grilled veg, goats cheese, sun dried tomatoes etc...YUMMY!

And this is the AMAZING table that was set by Maya the interior designer that gave a small clever talk about table setting.




That's it for now folks....

Ahoy Me Hearties...greeeeeeee

Ahoy everyone!

This is my latest cake...

My pirate just sits there, not aware of the danger lurking in the water...

Shiver me timbers!!

So have a great week or as they say "Yo Ho Ho and a bottle of Rum"...(I think that's what they say :-)

Happy Birthday

It's the time of the year again, that I have to show my girls that mom doesn't only make birthday cakes for other children, but for her own daughters as well...

So this year (to my delight...) I didn't have to make two cakes for my 5 year old twins birthday party, but one cake with a theme that sort of involves two "best buddies".

These characters always makes my girls laugh, and to be honest they make me laugh as well...

Ladies and gentleman's, put your hands together for "best friends"...

TOM & JERRY

Raising the scale

Some children knows exactly what they want...and I love it!

She came in with a big smile on her face and a small tiny sample of the cake she wants.

Check this one out... the Small cake next to its exact edible larger (much larger) version...

Have a great week, Tali

Halloween! WARNING: NOT SUITABLE FOR THE FAINT HEARTED!

She asked me for some cup cakes...
Some scary cup cakes...
Some really really scary cup cakes...

Not suitable for the faint hearted!

SOME OF MY CAKES

Cake Decorating Classes...coming soon!

for more details and to sign in

please e-mail me:

tali cooking@gmail.com

scroll down and see my students astounding cakes!