I
was asked by a friend of mine to volunteer at the International Cake Conference held in Albuquerque this year.
I had NO idea what I was signing up for. She and I were one the decorations committee, (turned out we WERE the decorations committee). So this is what I helped out with and did for the conference that was held in Aug.
One of the breakfasts that we decorated for, we used cookie cutters as a little take home gift. So along with the cookie cutter I made everyone at the breakfast a cookie made from the cutter. 150 of them to be exact (chile's, coyote's, roadrunner's and NM)
Another thing I helped with was the Show Piece. This is a 7 foot tall balloon cake that was in the center of the cake room. It represents everything New Mexico.
Here is the side I did with the Chile ristra's. Another girl did the flag.
Here is one of my favorite decorations we did. We filled glass vases with beans, rice and colored Indian corn. Then topped the vase with some grasses I cut out in the canyon. They were simple but I thought they turned out so pretty.
Coolest part was I made the news. Channel 13 did a little blurb on the cake show.......
Here is a still shot I took of the TV just because it was me on TV! O thought it was so cool that I was on TV. Couldn't stop talking about it.
The conference was a lot of work, I did have 1 of the 8 days off so I could go catch a few demos. I was so tired each night. It was an experience and it will look great on a resume but I don't think I will be doing that again in the future.
