Oh my word, where has summer gone? It’s mid September already?? Mid-September??? Every year we think we want autumn to arrive,
and every year we’d trade all our pumpkin spiced yumminess for another week by
the pool.
Blame it on the calendar, but we’re super far behind on our
blogging too. Apologies to the three of
you who regularly read our site (and boy do we appreciate it!)
In August we had a fun order for a themed cake we’d never
done before. Sarah is an old friend of
PSR, and her dad was celebrating his 60th birthday. She had no idea what she wanted for a cake,
she only knew they wanted to celebrate that he was 60. Enter PSR!
When we meet customers to discuss orders with them, most
people are worried because they don’t have any idea what kind of cake to
request. Relax, we always tell them, this
isn’t our first consultation. We
usually ask some questions about themes, ideas, visions, etc., and within 20-30
minutes we can make a rough sketch for you of our vision for your baked goods
order. For Sarah, she listed a few
things her dad was into, including boating, and we latched onto that idea. A few napkin sketches later, and we have our
vision for this cake with Sarah’s stamp of approval.
This cake ended up different than planned, though, which is
something bakers don’t always tell you about – we change our minds a lot, sometimes
mid-assembly. For Sarah’s cake, we
wanted to have just a boat to eat, but the more we worked with the idea, the
more we felt it was incomplete. The
boat itself was also very unstable, so we added a cake base to give it a little
more color and support.
The end result, though, is something we couldn't have planned better if we tried. It was a perfect addition to a 60th birthday family celebration!
Up next: We've got a lot of orders coming your way in September, from an order for a College event to another Pittsburgh wedding. Stay tuned for more details, we'll try to blog sooner rather than later!
