...Fast forward to 1985. The 1st true love of my life was born, Christopher Scott Chandler. I took one look into his beautiful face and knew that I wanted to do my best for my son. This included making sure he ate healthy, chemical free foods wherever possible. I made my own baby food and later on when teeth arrived I moved on to breads, cookies, etc.
When he was a little boy, I baked my 1st cake from scratch, courtesy of a recipe from The Fannie Farmer Cooking School cookbook. This book also contained recipes for some of the best breads I ever made! I digressed here, but wanted to say it was during his childhood that I went from baking and creating the basic round, frosted cake with candles to creating "shaped" cakes. The only other shape I came up with was that of a bunny rabbit. This was basically two round, 2-layer cakes. One of the rounds was left whole for the head while the other was cut to create two ears and a bowtie! I would post a pic but right now the house is a shambles and the scanner is disconnected due to paint work going on here.
Anyway, I continued to bake birthday cakes not only for Chris, but also for the 2nd true love of my life, Victor H. Chandler, AKA VJ who arrived on May 10, 1992. For VJ, however there has been a shift from the regulatory birthday cake to in his words, the more amazing giant birthday cookie. Funny, that through these years I only took one picture of a birthday cake. I guess the reason is because I really never thought they were all that spectacular...
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