will work for dessert

Yeah, my little resolution of posting more often didn’t go as well as planned. February was a crazy month after I got back from Vegas (more on that in a later post). I had to get things in order to turn in my application for school by the end of the month. So if you’ve kept up with my random twitter updates, I got an internship at a bakery here in the Bay Area. I needed it for work experience in order to apply to culinary school. So I’m working 7 days a week from here until I start school, which I’m hoping is in August. CRAZY!

When I last left you, I had just completed my FAFSA. I actually did my taxes super early this year. Then I headed off to Vegas for probably my last Vegas trip (I’ll have a nice little write up for some of the food I ate there). Once I got back, I had to kick my butt into gear to get my application done, which included writing a short essay which I haven’t done in years. And part of my application is having food experience which my life was spent in retail, so I had to go out and “pound the pavement” as my grandmother would call it. I had decided that I wanted to try to get my experience in a bakery, but when I looked online I found no openings for people with no experience. So I printed out my resume and went to a bunch of bakeries, and just asked if they had any openings even for a non-paid internship. No body is hiring because they have no openings or business is slow. Luckily one of the bakeries I had stopped into, because I was envious of their cute name, was offering a non-paid internship. I went in and got it after doing a working interview.

I’ve only been there for a few shifts, but I’m learning a bunch of tips and tricks. The guy that I’m working with says I’m doing a good job, so I’m stoked. I’ve been trying to get baking in here and there at home and I baked my dad some cupcakes this past Sunday. Yellow Cake is his favorite; and I found a good chocolate frosting to go with it. I ended up taking some home to my friends and housemates last night. I gave one to my housemate’s brother who had stopped by. He then went to his cousin’s house to visit and let her try half while he was there. When he came back to the house, he said that his cousin had asked if I could bake her a cake for her son’s birthday which is coming up. My first customer outside of my parents! I have to bake my Mom a Carrot Cake for her birthday at her request. I’m going to post up a few reviews on the recent recipes I made and you can try the recipes for yourself.

So I’ll be a busy little bee for the next few months, but I’ll try to keep up with posting. There’s a lot of stuff going on and with no downtime until school, I’ll probably be going crazy soon.