Office Retirement

I am ready for winter to come!  It has been so hot and sticky outside these last few days, and I hear it is only to get worse.  Well, come on in and cool off with an ice cold smoothie - strawberry mango is my favorite!  We will make sure to have our ice makers working overtime to help keep you cool.

For this week's highlight, I thought you would enjoy our office retirement cake we did a few weeks ago.  Catherine worked at Carfax for 7 years, and one of her coworkers wanted to have a fun cake for her retirement party.  She choose to cover the cake with little sticky notes and other desk supplies.  So two days before the cake was due, we rolled out little squares of fondant in those famous sticky note shades of yellow, pink and blue.  We left them to dry so that on the day the cake was due, we could use our food markers to write all sorts of to-do items - lunch with the girls, ask for a bonus, etc.

The morning of the delivery, we made a vanilla sponge cake with fresh fruit and whipped cream filling, then iced it with a thin layer of buttercream icing.  Once that was done, we rolled out white fondant to cover the entire cake.  Once the fondant was on, we were ready to attach the prepared sticky notes and embellish with a few other items.  There was a pen, pencil, tacks, paperclips, pencil sharpener and more.  We thought the cake turned out great.

Well, until next week, stay inside where the air is cool.  But if you do decide to venture out, come stop by either Manassas or Centreville for a cupcake on us, which goes well with those smoothies!