I am not sure why, but it never crossed my mind that people would donate the kinda of bake ware I would be interested in purchasing to second hand stores or sell them at their garage sales. I have no issue buying anything else at the second hand stores so I am not sure where this mentality came from.
Recently, I have been a little bit of a downer. I have felt like very few of my loved ones are honestly and truthfully supporting me in my passion to become a professional cake decorator. Comments will be made like "sure you could do it", but I wouldn't buy a cake from a stranger off the streets or an advertisement in the laundry mat" or "yeah I know you would be good, but don't make a cake for this or that it will be too hard to eat it or transport it." With all this negativity and the fact that I don't have much else to do in my day with my current injury, I am even more determined to play in frosting and get better at cake decorating. Maybe it's to prove them all wrong or maybe it's because I want to prove to myself that I can do it.
None the less, I went shopping with my mom to the local second hand stores. We had time to kill and she only was out to look for some miscellaneous things so up and down the isles we went. I ventured off down the dishes isle, not expecting to find baking pans or anything of use to me now. Honestly it was one of those days where I would see things that would be great to have once I have my own kitchen to stock or things that looked cool but I would never spend the money on them. Almost immediately I found baking pans in sets of 2 or more; loaf pans, round pans, square pans etc. All of them in great condition and because they had a perfect pair I was more intrigued /interested in buying them.
After showing my mom what "treasures" I had found, she quickly started pointing out other pieces that were around the corner. Only these were better, they were made of silicone. I love silicone and vow to one day complete my kitchen bake ware line with silicone bake ware, utensils, and anything else I can get my hands on that is made and is useful in silicone.
I managed to get out of the store with a set of 6" round silicone, 8" square, deep loaf, and a single 8" round silicone pans and other misc. things for about $20. To me this is a big deal, yeah they may not be purple or not all of them are silicone, but they will help me to achieve other sizes of cakes. This is key to building my inventory and also to allowing me to have a variety of sizes/shapes to work with.
So not only have I increased my inventory of pans, I also managed to pick up a cupcake stand that sells for about $30 new for about $2.50 (once I am done buying the extra part that I need it will be about $10 total). This is super exciting as now, not only do I have a fantastic way of caring my cupcakes around with my new 36/3 tier cupcake carrier that I got for Christmas, I now have a really cool way of displaying them. This specific stand I have wanted for a long time, but again it wasn't a necessity so I had to wait until the right time to get it. With this latest investment piece, I really hope that I can start finding reasons to make and display cupcakes and cakes. I know I am not the best, but I can only hope that people will start to see me as good enough to decorate their special occasion cake or cupcakes.
One a final note; I know my passion is increasing because I am now dreaming, and not just day dreaming, about building cakes and making them look fantastic. The other night I had a dream that I constructed a odd shaped building located near the Tacoma Art Museum out of cake. I have to admit this dream was the same night as I watched Ace of Cakes on the food network. After watching the show it got me to thinking how cool it would be to not only master "simple" layer cakes but also how much fun it would be to master shaped or "carved" cakes. In the near future I really want to make a monster truck cake that is 3D. So unless I get a better cake idea or a special reason to make a certain type of cake, my monster truck will be the next one coming out of my oven. :D
Thanks for reading my little tirade. God Bless
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