For some reason my kitchen is the hottest room in my house even when i have done very little cooking and no baking that day. My windows slide sideways so i can't put in A/C or even a window fan and there is no ceiling fan. I want to bake, but when i set foot in my kitchen i usually just end up changing my mind.
What does everybody do in the summer to beat the heat and keep on baking?
Our kitchen gets hot in the early afternoon b/c of the way the sun is coming down. I do a few things to try and beat it.
1) If I am home all day I try to do all my baking before 10 am.
2) The room next to the kitchen has a window unit so I just put a fan pulling the air from that room into the kitchen.
3) I keep the blinds closed to the kitchen all day (expecially if I am cooking in the evening) We have the pull down blinds that block out all of the sun, it helps to keep it cool quite a bit. It is darker in there than the rest of the house, but it keeps it cool.
4) Mix everything as fast as I can get it in oven and leave to sit infront of the AC in another room LOL 
Hope some of these ideas help
Leily
it gets in the 100's sometimes so we have two oscelating (sp?) in the kitchen as well as the AC on
My kitchen gets very hot as well. I only have one AC vent in the kitchen and it is near the wall beside the kitchen island. I also have a gas stove which seems to make it a little more hotter in the kitchen. 
What were they thinking when they added the island long time ago. 
Anyway, I had a very hard time with my roses today b/c it was too warm in my kitchen. Everytime I pipe a petal on the rose it started falling immediately. Even my borders were sweating from the heat. It took me so much longer to make one cake today compared to any other day. I have to come up with a better plan for baking cakes. Maybe I'll bake in the morning (when I can) and decorate at night when the temperature has gone down.
can't you move to another room to do the decorating?? If its real hot in your kitchen trying moving to the dinningroom to decorate. Before we had central air, i would bake one day in the am, then the next i would decorate in the room with the ac, as the window unit only fit in one room of the house.
As far as your sliding windows, have you looked in to the small fans, i used to have window fans that weren't very big and i think they could be set on the side (my windows were only 23 inches wide in some of my rooms), i had one for each of the bedrooms and they each contained 2 small fans (maybe 6 inchers) and they had a reverse, so you could use it to suck out the hot air in the room.
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