this is a secret, but.....
I never practiced. I still don't. I just jump in and do it.
this is a secret, but.....
I never practiced. I still don't. I just jump in and do it.
That's what I say. when I first joined CC and saw people talking about making practice cakes, that really threw me. You mean people make a cake ahead of time before they make the real cake? 
Geesh, who ate the FIRST 100-serving wedding cake?
I've never made a practice cake either or even repeated one of mine (although i would if paid to do so). I just plan it out the best I can and wing it. my first ever cake was my brother's wedding (a simple 3 tier), then I did a little castle for my daughter's birthday. obviously those two were free. My third was for my boss's son (the fire truck in my photos). I told him to give me whatever and he gave me $100. I charge much more than that now, but I was thrilled with a first payment. I started the business a month later. 
Okay, I guess I've been "practicing" for 17 years. Theres always new techniques coming out, so we are all constantly learning. I've started "selling" on a regular basis when I became a SAHM and saw how easy it was to be legal in my state. I have still ordered a cake for myself when I knew for a fact I wasn't going to have time to do it.
Well, not counting the years when I was growing up (I made my first cake at around age 7 or 
, I guess I "practiced" for about 2 or 3 months before the first time someone paid me for a cake, so I guess after about 5 or 6 cakes. But I don't really think of it as having been practice. I was just making cakes because I wanted to and bringing them in to work for pot lucks or to family functions and someone happened to ask me to make them a cake.
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