A Special Cake :: Austin Wedding Cakes

This cake is special because it signified a turning point for me. This was the very first cake that I entered into a cake and sugar art competition. Now, compared to the cakes that are entered these days, it is a very simple design and probably wouldn't win any kind of award.

However, back then, in 2006, it placed SECOND as one of the best wedding cakes for the beginner category. Beginner. At this point I had never really even considered actually doing cakes as a business because I was very involved with event/wedding planning . This was also only the second wedding cake that I had EVER created, so I wasn't even sure that I could do it as a job.

After I won my award for this cake, I really started to seriously think about doing cakes. This is when I started to formulate a business plan and get the ball rolling on my new business venture!

PS: One of the judges of this competition was Bronwen Weber of Food Network fame. I still have the notes she wrote from the judges comments and a photo we took together, standing next to my cake; I have to find it though as I have thousands of digital photos, and can't remember where I saved it. =-/