It's getting hot in here

This morning I discovered that my new carob ganache recipe was not going to work out. It actually took me 3 hours to keep working with this stuff. It's definitely not chocolate. It melts in a strange way and it smells better when it is warm than when it is just in the container. Personally, I like chocolate a lot better than carob but since dogs cannot eat chocolate, I'm stuck with this to work with and it is not fun. It's a little bit cleaner than chocolate and the color is a gorgeous almost black brown color. I love that. I hate that I couldn't make a carob ganache this morning. I was really hoping to make a carob ganache cake for Katie so I could add it to the menu. I guess I have to hit the books and figure it out. 

Back in the saddle again

I baked a gorgeous Barkday cake for a little dog named Cujo. So excited. I loved it. It came out great! I had help today for the very first time. My family pitched in because I had worked late last night. It was one of the best cakes I've made. I think that my pastry education is really paying off because I did something a little different from the past cakes in terms of the recipe procedure and this cake came out NICE. I mean really really nice. Yah! Katie is staring at the counter where the other cakes are cooling. I actually made three since the batter was so...nice. I have to make some baking notes but the cake was perfect. More perfect than before, it had a nice texture, dense and heavy but dry inside. The carrots were perfectly throughout, and the peanut butter was really creamed in good. Yup. I'm really happy with this cake. I hope the pawty goes well! I also did my usual barkday presents because I just like throwing in stuff as comps. I am such a sucker for pawties. Presents are my favorite part about celebrating barkdays for dogs. 

Playtime 

I am really trying to find a nice organic toy line to go with my treats so I can really push it up a notch. But, I have to fix my website first and then I have to graduate from pastry school and I have my other life-stuffs going on...whew. I went to the doggie fashion week convention last year and found a great stuffed toy line made with organic cotton. So...soft and so...nice. I loved it. I think that they are selling those in the maternity stores and for babies. It's really a cute line of fluffy lambs and it's a great all natural color, not bleached white but closer to the natural color of wool. I liked it a lot. Now, it's just a matter of finding that company...filing system needs updating...check.

Coloring

I decided to try to change up my decorating techniques and discovered that I make a cute bone. My little squirt bottle works great for brief stints of writing. I love it. But it's a really hard bottle to fill because the opening is so...narrow. Now that I know how to make cornets, it makes life so...much easier BUT I need to get parchment. Get parchment...check.

Uh oh...Katie's barking again...gotta go;)

Plus I gotta make the cake for her that I promised. Such a spoiled little dog:))