Hello!

When I first joined this forum I thought for sure that I was probably the youngest one on here but I have been proven wrong recently! If you could post on this thread how old you are and why/how you started baking that would be great! It'll be so much fun to see how everyone got here :) Looking forward to seeing your replies!

My own story is that I am the middle child of 10 children and we have only have two months in the year when we DONT have a birthday to celebrate. Growing up, I just loved being in the kitchen.  I loved cooking, baking, cleaning, you name it! As long as I was in the kitchen.  When I was 10 I started to make the birthday cakes for my siblings.  I used the boxed mix and the canned frosting, loads of candy and oreos - all around they tasted great, were super sugary and well . . . looked like a 10 year old had made them ;P ;) Flash forward a couple of years I started getting more and more interested in the science of baking and started making my cakes and frosting from scratch - and they were delicious! Its kind of funny, I remember the very first cake that I made that actually looked professional and tasted good, too (I was 13 at the time).  Flash forward another year and a half and a couple of fancy cakes, my brother was getting married, a small wedding, and wanted me to make the cake.  And that's kind of where everything exploded.  A little more than a year later I am making my second wedding cake for a wedding 4x the size of my brother's and I am only 16!! I am kind of overwhelmed by how quickly things escalated but overall, I am very excited to be baking and part of the couple's special day :)

doctorwhobaker -- nine siblings -- ten birthdays a year -- wow no wonder you got such a work out -- very cool story -- 

i started baking as a wee one because i loved bakeries and my mother's baking and i wanted more than she would make -- i was quite young -- i did have an easy bake oven but once those coupla mixes were gone they were gone --

 i could do the little jiffy mix cakes which are half the size of a regular cake mix and scratch cookies/brownies -- i often tried to make fudge but it rarely if ever turned out --  jiffy cake mixes are half the size of a regular cake mix -- and all their stuff was good to me -- their spice cake w/chocolate frosting was wonderful --

so by your age i was making cookies & things for my brothers and i because we were a single parent family -- 

oh my cakes -- now we're talking 50+ years ago -- i had no instruction in any of this -- just trying to follow the recipe when i felt like it would be worthwhile  --  they domed of course and i never thought to trim them -- duh on me :)  the sides of the pans were not straight up but slanted out -- and curiously enough my cakes did not crack in half although i don't know why ha! -- but the top layers did slide when i tried a layer cake -- except for a boston cream pie -- which is a cake of course -- but i stuck toothpicks in them to keep them all together --

i love your story -- i am 65

and because i am 65 i want to remind you of something you already know -- you can say "no" to any cake order that does not fit nicely into your timetable/schedule/life -- it's plenty ok and necessary to do so :)

best best baking for a happy lifetime of great memories and success and lovely lessons from all the challenges -- best to you 

It's so awesome to see how many other young cake decorators there are! When I first joined CC, I thought for sure I'd be the only one here under 20!

I started doing cakes almost a year ago exactly. It all began when I decided to do a galaxy birthday cake for a friend's birthday last January. Since then, I've done over 20 cakes for all sorts of events. I often sell my cakes for weddings, retirement parties, etc., but also love giving them to friends for their birthdays.

Hugs to my fellow CCers of all ages :)

Thank you so much @-K8memphis ‍ !‍ I love your story too, I laughed so hard when you mentioned the tooth picks haha but hey, practice makes perfect :)

@cakingandbaking ‍ So did you make that galaxy cake and it was perfect so you thought "hey I should start a business?" haha

Both of your replies are great!

@doctorwhobaker ‍ No, it wasn't perfect :) It took SOOO much longer than I ever would have imagined - I was clueless as to the real time/effort that would be required. I hand-piped stars on the cake, and that took at least three hours. It was also far more expensive than it should have been - I spent $30 on sprinkles alone (whoops!). What I was most disappointed in was that I couldn't get the cake perfectly smooth (I was clueless at this point) and that the "poofs" of frosting that I wanted to do on the top of the cake ended up looking like colorful little piles of poo... hahaha! 

Here it is...

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So no, not perfect, but I fell in love with the processes of decorating and baking/tinkering with recipes to get them juuust right. I've been hooked ever since!

Sorry the photo is so huge, I resized it but I guess that didn't work...

I'm currently 20, but I joined Cake Central back when I was 16, I felt too young to be here haha! I took the basic cake decorating classes at Michaels after my 16th birthday and discovered I had talent. I never expected to turn this talent into a business. Family and friends started ordering cakes and that's how it all happened :)

I will be 60 years old on March 23rd. I used to watch a lot of videos on youtube mainly all buttercream cakes. I would watch how they made the flowers then I would make icing and practice borders,flowers leaves on sides of pans till I learned how to do it. I made cakes for the kids in my neighborhood and my first cakes were okay but not so good but as time goes on you get better and the cakes now look more professional looking. I give my cakes away just to see the kids faces it is worth it.. They enjoy it and I have free range to make whatever I like to. Sometimes I do buttercream transfers for superhero cakes which come out looking pretty good. The kids love it!! and it is free cakes for them. 

Their favorite cakes were always chocolate with peanut butter icing. My cake always came out so moist and the peanut butter just blew everyone away!! Another cake I make is similar to tres lech cake. I make a layer cake. I poke holes in it when it comes out of oven, I mix coconut cream of Lopez 15 oz and juice from 20 oz crushed pineapple mixed together along with a can of sweetened condensed milk. I pour over cake while warm.  I then add crushed pineapple on top of this and let cool. Once cool For frosting I take 1 small box(white chocolate or cheesecake or banana cream) instant pudding, 1 1/2 cup heavy cream, and mix this together till thick. then I add an 8 ounce can of cool whip to the icing. Once cake cool I spread frosting on top. This is one that everyone always seems to want because it is also moist. 

Since moving I don't have kids around here so I now just make cakes for 5 friends who are older when there birthdays come around. This year for the first time I am going to make myself a birthday cake for my birthday!!! Maybe a coconut cake. My son loves coconut and I do too. I remember when we went to NC every year my mom would buy a whole coconut cake from store and my son and I would eat the whole cake in 2 days. Boy those were the days when we never gained any weight and could eat that stuff!!!

I will be 60 years old on March 23rd. I used to watch a lot of videos on youtube mainly all buttercream cakes. I would watch how they made the flowers then I would make icing and practice borders,flowers leaves on sides of pans till I learned how to do it. I made cakes for the kids in my neighborhood and my first cakes were okay but not so good but as time goes on you get better and the cakes now look more professional looking. I give my cakes away just to see the kids faces it is worth it.. They enjoy it and I have free range to make whatever I like to. Sometimes I do buttercream transfers for superhero cakes which come out looking pretty good. The kids love it!! and it is free cakes for them. 

Their favorite cakes were always chocolate with peanut butter icing. My cake always came out so moist and the peanut butter just blew everyone away!! Another cake I make is similar to tres lech cake. I make a layer cake. I poke holes in it when it comes out of oven, I mix coconut cream of Lopez 15 oz and juice from 20 oz crushed pineapple mixed together along with a can of sweetened condensed milk. I pour over cake while warm.  I then add crushed pineapple on top of this and let cool. Once cool For frosting I take 1 small box(white chocolate or cheesecake or banana cream) instant pudding, 1 1/2 cup heavy cream, and mix this together till thick. then I add an 8 ounce can of cool whip to the icing. Once cake cool I spread frosting on top. This is one that everyone always seems to want because it is also moist. 

Since moving I don't have kids around here so I now just make cakes for 5 friends who are older when there birthdays come around. This year for the first time I am going to make myself a birthday cake for my birthday!!! Maybe a coconut cake. My son loves coconut and I do too. I remember when we went to NC every year my mom would buy a whole coconut cake from store and my son and I would eat the whole cake in 2 days. Boy those were the days when we never gained any weight and could eat that stuff!!!

i love your story remnant --

and i like the night sky cake -- it's a beautiful expression --