Timeless Recipes from Trusted Home Cooks - Doridro
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Timeless Recipes from Trusted Home Cooks - Doridro
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Miscellaneous Cake Winners<br />
It’s All<br />
In the Game<br />
First Place—When Pen Perez,<br />
Berkeley, California,<br />
was asked to make a birthday<br />
cake for her friend’s 5-<br />
year-old son, her first question<br />
was:“What does Miles want on<br />
his cake”<br />
“Oh,just put gobs and gobs of candy<br />
on it. He loves candy,” was her<br />
friend’s reply.<br />
“Instead of piling the candy haphazardly,<br />
I thought it should look like the<br />
Candy Land board game,” relates Pen,<br />
who spent 3 hours carefully placing all<br />
of the candies on the cake. The end result<br />
A very happy birthday boy.<br />
“Miles loved his cake…and so did<br />
50 of his friends and family,”Pen says.<br />
“Each slice had at least one piece of<br />
candy on it, so no one missed out.”<br />
An architect turned full-time mom,<br />
Pen began decorating cakes when<br />
her daughters were born.<br />
Turn to page 66 to make your own<br />
Candy Land cake.<br />
Berry Pretty<br />
Second Place—“No<br />
one is sad when they<br />
are eating cake,” says<br />
Sherry Stevens of<br />
St. James, New York.<br />
Sherry’s fresh strawberry<br />
Pirouline cake<br />
just might be proof of<br />
that.<br />
“This cake has<br />
‘wow’ power,” says<br />
Sherry.“It’s the one<br />
that gets the most recognition, plus it’s so easy to make.”<br />
Just bake your favorite cake in a square pan, frost the top<br />
and sides and place Pirouline cookies around the entire cake.<br />
Then, tie a bow around the cake, form a square on top of the<br />
cake using melted white chocolate and gently place fresh<br />
strawberries and blueberries around the border.<br />
“Now you have a beautiful, romantic cake,” Sherry notes.“I<br />
also make it for birthdays.I place the person’s age on the white<br />
chocolate. If it is for one of my friends who keeps their age a<br />
secret, I put ‘29+’ or ‘39+’ and just keep people guessing.”<br />
Sherry recently began working in the cardiac care unit at<br />
Stony Brook University Hospital.“I brought in goodies on my<br />
first day, and now a co-worker keeps hinting that her birthday’s<br />
right around the corner,”she laughs.<br />
Black-Belt Cake Baker<br />
Third Place—For 22 years, Nora Fitzgerald, Sevierville,<br />
Tennessee, worked in human resources for a manufacturing<br />
facility.When the branch closed,she shifted gears and pursued<br />
a degree in culinary arts.<br />
“I wanted to do something less stressful...something lighter<br />
and different,” Nora says.<br />
One of her favorite classes was cake decorating. Soon, she<br />
was making specialty cakes for family and friends, including<br />
this fondant baby cake. “I<br />
made this sweet little cake for<br />
a friend who’d wanted a baby<br />
for so long,”says Nora.“The<br />
cake caused such an uproar<br />
that the mom-to-be refused to<br />
cut it for 2 days.”<br />
Although she’s now certified<br />
in culinary arts and business<br />
management, Nora is<br />
content helping her brother<br />
and sister run a Christian<br />
karate school.The school’s<br />
95 aspiring students love it<br />
when instructor Nora (a thirddegree<br />
black belt) brings in<br />
one of her special cakes<br />
for them to try!<br />
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