Last Week of 2011 and First Week of 2012

Happy New Year. It is time for a new year and a new year for baking. My baking resolutions are:

• Create one new recipe from scratch
• Bake a new cupcake every month

• MORE CAKE

The last week of December was my sister's birthday. I made her a 3-D owl cake. It was 8 circles of cake tall, cut in half, making the back flat and the belly round. The cake was a plain vanilla cake and vanilla frosting. The owl was covered in over 200 feathers! it turned out very well for my first scuplted cake.

Start the year off right with cake!

Welcome Readers

Hello, my name is Truly. I am a teenage baker/cook. I want to share my recipes, cakes, ideas, and thoughts with others. I have an unofficial bakery called Truly Scrumptious Cakes. I am not and do not want to be your everyday baker and say "Hey, I am so cool 'cause I bake." I want to bring something new and fresh to the counter. I do not want to take the fun or the oven out of baking. The biggest fad are these "makers" that you put the batter in and voila. I think this is not baking; it is ridiculous. The fun of baking is going through the meticulous, step-by-step process, then putting it in the oven and smelling the sweet smell of sugar and having the feeling that it is done. I don't want to be the person who says "When I grow up, I am going to be a baker." Who says I am not one now! I didn't see an age limit on imagination. I am a baker and baking is my passion. Look out world!