A fairytale – the cake dream

This blog is about sharing a passion for baking, eating or just looking at cakes!

And it’s also about living the cake dream.

Because once upon a time there was a little girl who made cake-shaped cushions, little painted clay cakes, cake appliqué t-shirts and real cakes with her mum.

DSCF8391The little girl’s dream was to have her own cake shop, but people told her that if she did she would gobble up all the cakes.  Oh dear, she thought.  Then she journeyed to a patisserie in the great land of cakes called France and asked if she could become their apprentice.  But they told her she would have to stay a long, long time, receive very, very little money and work very, very hard.

She decided sadly to return to her own land and do her school exams.

Many, many years passed by.  The girl never stopped making cakes and grew into a woman with the heart of the child who still loved them.  She made crochet cupcakes and macarons and collected cake realia.

She also made mountains and mountains of real cakes which she shared with the people around her.  She made friends with people like herself who would only talk about cakes.

10462798_10152504335422509_3385070770812594422_n (2)Then miraculously she was able to go to a wonderful patisserie course in the great city of cakes, Paris, at le Cordon Bleu, a school where you could learn patisserie magic. There she was trained long and hard in the magic skills of basic patisserie and learnt to say ‘oui chef’, not cut her fingers and bake as fast and as well as she could so the chefs would be happy with her cakes.

There was still so much to learn but she could not stay.  She would return, she promised them with tears in her eyes.

Back in her own land, the woman made even more complicated cakes, sometimes labouring for days to recreate the layers of confection borne of her imagination.  At times she became weary of the layers and made lovely simple cakes, with healthy and nourishing ingredients.

Often when she felt a little tired she read her patisserie books, which never stopped growing in number and made her shelves creak under their incredible weight.

Then one day this cake-loving woman came upon a new land in the clouds, where you could not touch the other people but everyone shared the ideas and pictures in their heads.  This is the land of Blog, she was told.

So she began writing in the cloud, for a small group of followers to see, speckled about the world and sharing her obsession with …. cakes!  In turn, she read the other cloud lovers’ fascinating tales about many things in life.  But most of all she felt the warmth of a new group of people like herself, sharing and living the cake dream.

The cake adventure continues …

 

To find out more you can also read Why make cakes and blog about it? which is unfortunately less like a fairy tale but there is a nice photo of a cake.

75 thoughts on “A fairytale – the cake dream”

    • Lili's avatar
      Lili says:

      Thanks for the lovely comment Julia! Glad you liked the page and crochet cakes 🙂 I can dig up the crochet link for the instructions on if you’re interested and have time between the gardening. Just going back to your blog now… Ooh, and hope your friend will enjoy this blog too. Happy gardening and blogging to you!

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    budgiesntiels says:

    Lili, if you don’t mind I would like the crochet link for those cakes. They are so cute and would go so well on my fridge. Thank you. Julie

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      Lili says:

      Hi Julie! No problem. Here’s the link: http://issuu.com/irinifotiadi/docs/cupcake – used as a base pattern (without the eyes).
      I adapted the top a little by making waves on the last line using varying combinations of single stich, half-double, double, treble, double treble, then back down to treble, double, etc. Let me know if you’d like the strawberry instructions. Hope you have a nice bunch of little cakes on your fridge soon! 🙂

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      Lili says:

      Hi Jacob! Thanks for stopping by and reading… welcome! I like your blog – it’s very interesting and am looking forward to reading more. Happy new year and blogging (and reading) to you too!!!

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    ellarend says:

    The cutest, nicest “about me” I have read until now. I want to know your cake secrets! 🙂
    P.s: I have a little obsession with Fondant au Chocolat, I even dedicated a post about it. Have you tried it? 🙂

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      Lili says:

      Hi Mariella, thanks.. that’s very sweet! All cake secrets will be posted soon! I don’t have that many 🙂
      I checked out your Fondant au Chocolate page .. yum! And I found the la cuisine de Bernard blog – really excited about that. Looks great! So thanks for that. I’ve tried a version they do here in Barcelona called a Coulant au chocolat (like chocolate volcano) – liquid inside but similar and easy, also yummy! 🙂

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        ellarend says:

        La Cuisine de Bernard is one of my favourite recipes’ blog! I still have to try the Gordon Ramsay’s recipe, that is much more “vulcany” 🙂

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      Lili says:

      Thanks Curtis! Glad you liked it and nice of you to say so… And yes, I really liked your blog, with the word ‘squivel’ and the tweeting and blogging birds!

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      Lili says:

      Hi Michelle! No, I wouldn’t be offended but I would roll around the floor laughing a lot!!! 🙂 I’m flattered but still laughing now, which is good. So, please feel free to write whatever you’d like… look forward to reading it! 🙂

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