Nuriyyeh's Cakes

So my sons 4th birthday is coming up. We're throwing him a party at Chuck E Cheese.  Oh Boy. I love to see my son happy, as does every mother, but Chuck E Cheese still makes me cringe a bit. Ok, a lot. But I am going to make him his cake of choice. He has a very hard time making decisions, something he gets from me. (Sorry Kiddo!) But, he has finally chosen. A blue and orange cake (like the Broncos!) with candy on the top. Lots of candy, and lollipops, not small ones big ones. Kids are very particular. I found this cake video on Facebook and it had a method that I wanted to try, so I made a cake last night. No direction and no thought behind it besides-practice. I came out with a watermelon cake 😂 The method was to put different colors of cake batter into piping bags and pipe alternating dots around the pan. I thought it turned out pretty well and will use the method for his cake. And the watermelon frosting, well, that just kind of happened 😂

Here is my first podcast!  It took many times recording and a lot of messing around in Garage Band. I have not used Garage Band in a long, long, long time so there was some google involved not going to lie! I have not perfected it yet but hopefully it's decent! 

This week we worked on podcasts in class. This was not the best for me because I hate my voice, I mean burning passion hate to listen to it. I wrote a script on an article that I had written for the school paper last semester about Baker's Boutique, a local Grand Junction bakery. After I did my first recording I went back to listen. There were quickly 3 redos with speedy delete button pushes after each one. (Only one of which was because of noisy kids in the background 😂😂) I still have not been able to bring myself to save one, but I'll get there!

So today I started working on my final for my emerging media class. I built a business page on Facebook for my cakes which was a little strange for me to see. I never planned on making my baking into a business, I still don't really, but it is fun to entertain the idea. Today is also the anniversary of this cake, this is probably my favorite cake that I've ever made, partly because there is a cheesecake in the middle 😀

This week we worked on YouTube. Now I use YouTube all the time to watch videos and my kids love to use it to watch wheels on the bus and those weird videos where people open the eggs and see what's inside. However, I have never posted anything on YouTube before. Whenever I think of posting to YouTube I just think Justin Bieber and think no further. So I made a profile. My picture is me in a baking shirt and background picture my latest cake. I did make the mistake of filming my first two videos vertically instead of horizontally so the next video I will be more mindful of that. I put my videos into iMovie and added some transitions and some words here and there. This assignment has been challenging for me because it's a few things I have not done in awhile. It was a nice refresher in iMovie as well as a lot of good information in YouTube. For my review I am hoping to review either a recipe or a local bakery, depending on how motivated I feel to bake this week 😂😋

My sons elementary school had a carnival to raise money so I made a cake for the cake walk. Apparently it was a fan favorite and got auctioned off for money instead which is quite a compliment! Candy box cakes are so easy to make and so much fun!

This week we worked with QR codes in class.  This was my code: This code links to the website of the event coordinator that I am currently working for. I chose to do a flyer for her because I thought it would be good practice. I think that QR codes are extremely interesting and a very good idea. Something that you can just scan and have all the information come up instantly without having to search or go through a lot of different information. After finding out the the Twitter app has a QR code scanner built in, I have been scanning any QR code that I come across. Our professor set up an assignment in class that was a QR code treasure hunt. She taped up QR codes, each of which came up with a different link. Some were videos and some were photos. It was fun because something so simple, a black and white code, held secrets that we were excited to find out about. I think that is one of the nice things about these codes, keeps people excited, interested, and wanting to fin...