Internship: Prepping for Valentine's Day

While love is all aflutter in the air and sweets prepare to buy confections for their loved ones us little workers have to prepare these tasty tokens of affection. Connie and I made cupcake and cake trays for Valentine's day. Connies were great looking and mine were okay. I first tried a bee concept around the phrase "Bee Mine" and although the first one came out cute I told Connie that I wanted to improve on the idea. Have a look...

This first one came out okay, I am not crazy about the amount of green, but I like the bees and their little candied almond wings.


Here is my improvement on the idea I swapped out an all green background for green grass and blue sky. I also changed the color of the flowers and made the cupcakes violet instead of green. I like this one much better.


I consider myself the kind of person who while I am learning likes to take my time and think about what I am doing. The reason that I do this is to think about every little detail and try to perfect it. I am telling you this because in my first week at the bakery it took me about 20 minutes to frost one cake. Connie told me that we had to frost six cakes. In about 20 minutes or less I had all of them done with borders. Connie exclaimed that I had frosted too many, haha, I told her that she said six but I did not realize that she had already frosted two. Here is my attempt at a simple birthday cake.


The amount of delicious and wonderul bread that the bakers produces on a daily basis simply amazes me. They are so good at what they do and their methodical preparation results in delicious baked goods. I will talk about the bakers later, here are some photos of their work.

It is so hard to not take one of these loaves of bread when they come straight out of the oven, slather it with butter and eat the entire thing!


The enticing aroma that is produced by these breads is a delightful thing in the morning.


This is the large oven that is used to bake all of the bread. I have been learning more and more how to use it, I don't know why but it reminds me of the oven in Hansel and Gretel!