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EXCITING NEWS!

I recently was interviewed by Laurie Dawson of Mouth 2 Mouth, a radio show that airs of CJSF, about my Gordon Campbell cookies! The interview aired today, and you can listen to it by clicking the below links (NOTE: it starts about 1/3rd the way into the first link, after some music):

interview with Laurie Dawson Part 1

interview with Laurie Dawson Part 2

I am SO thrilled with how the interview came together- Laurie is a super-awesome and talented radio lady! Definitely worth a listen. Also, I realized I call people “Man” a lot. Something to work on?

Oh Man.

Thanksgiving 2009: the tradition continues. The meat cake tradition, that is (check out the inaugural cake here). This season, I went for a nice, big, glazed ham. Here is my recipe:

Step 1.
bake six red velvet cakes (always a crowd pleaser).

Step 2.
Stack ‘em, and stack ‘em high.

Step 3.
Cut into the shape of a large ham. Start getting the buttercream on there.

Step 4
Smooth out the ‘face’ of the skin. Insert a large marshmallow to act as the ham bone (if you think about it hard, this act is an act of ‘completing the circle’… in a really twisted reality). Add appropriate texture and white, ah, ’stuff’….

Step 5
add ‘outer’ skin texture to remaining body of ham

Step 6.
Don’t forget the cloves!!

Step 7.
Next, glaze the beast with melted caramel

Step 8.
Finish the ham with classic maraschino cherries as a garnish

The ham was a real crowd pleaser. As the tradition calls for, I carved slices for all.

…is a fabulous kids book illustrated and written by multi-talented Lisa Cinar. I was fortunate enough to collaborate with her on making a cake to celebrate the book launch! We did a cake shaped like the book’s main character, Mr. Tadaa. How can this guy not make you smile?

The launch, and the book (which went on to win a prestigious award!), were a big hit, although it was sad to cut up Mr. Tadaa and see him go! He went down OK, though