I'm baaaaack! Did you miss me? Did you even notice I was gone? Come on now, be honest - I can take it! :) So, after my first bad business experience I took a little hiatus from the cake business. There are no pictures of that disaster here because there was no cake. I learned that, while you can do business with most friends, you shouldn't do business with all friends. Long story short, things were said, feelings were hurt, things were misinterpreted and more feelings were hurt and I decided I'd rather have someone made at me over a cake I didn't make than one I did make. With that being said...true friendship CAN get past any obstacle - it just takes a little time.
So, after I had said I was done with cakes and had no passion for it anymore, I was approached to make the xbox 360 cake pictured here. I originally said no. I didn't want to even attempt to do it and I had no desire to try. Then, Christy, the friend who wanted the cake (see... I TOLD you sometimes it's OK to do business with friends!) told me that the other area baker who she had contacted wanted $175 for the cake. REALLY?? You can buy and actual xbox 360 for $199, so why would anyone want to pay nearly that much for a cake replica of one?? So, despite she needed the cake in the middle of MLB play-off season, I sucked it up and told her I'd make her cake...taking a break every time my man, Derek Jeter, came up to bat in the ALCS games against the Texas Rangers. Basically I can't really even guess at how long the cake took me to make because I'm pretty sure I stopped working on it completely for 7 full innings of a game. What can I say, I love my Yankees! Lesson learned here is that you can DVR the game and watch it after the work is done... as long as you stay off of FaceBook until you've had a chance to watch what you want to see!
I won't say that my lost passion came back with this cake, but it did start to wake up some. The look on the birthday boy's face was, once again, all I needed to see in order to be glad that I had made the cake, and thankful for the opportunity. Passion waking up and coming back to life is a good thing, because it turns out that I would need it for the next cake that I made... stay tuned for more updates, but in the mean time, happy baking!
