Sundbakes

I loved watching the world bloom outside my window this week while making a ton of floral cakes and macarons for your graduation parties! A set of pink transformer macarons snuck in there early this week for a fun change of pace.

I love working from home because the time between seeing a beautiful bird and calling to Jeff to come look at it with me is about 7 seconds. Coffee tastes better if you drink it with your husband while looking at a mango colored bird. Did you get any orioles this week? One of our family friends put out orange halves for them and his garden filled up with orioles, so I'm definitely going to do that next year.

Jeff and I are not skilled gardeners, but we spend each year doing little experiments to see what grows and what we use. Thinking of it as experients makes it so you don't feel bad when a plant dies, it's just data. Basil never makes it, so we didn't even bother with that this year. We accidentally bought waaaay to many tomato plants. Between Berry Acres and Lowes we were able to find all of the herbs we need for our fancy cooking. Sage is an absolute must for me!

I treated myself to flowers from Lexi Lou Floral on 4th avenue, so now it's blooming inside AND outside.

Please don't judge our ramshackle deck. It has lasted since 1985 and the wind has not been kind to it (Same, girl, same!). Someday in the distant future we will replace it, but until then it is becoming our own gothic ruins. I choose to believe it's whimsical like my wild grey hairs. As the deck and I age, we just become more eccentric.

We took advantage of the final cold days early in the week to make roast chicken, French onion soup, chicken stock, and chicken pot pie. 40 degrees isn't so bad when you have homemade pot pie!!

I hope you enjoyed our one day of spring on Saturday, because apparently it's summer now!

Be sure to shop local for your herbs, flowers, and your cakes. Minot's future depends on your support. 💚

I have dates open in June, July and August. I can't wait to design a cake for you while watching birds out my window.

With heart,
Elizabeth

Whenever I see Clay & Fern Co.'s earrings or floral wall plaques, I always think they look like my cakes. Now one of them is a cake!

The floral cake has chocolate layers with Nutella Swiss meringue buttercream filling. The outside is decorated with palette knife flowers inspired by her artwork.

The combo of a bespoke wall hanging and painted cake might be the most romantic gift of all time. For example, can you imagine receiving this set based on your wedding bouquet or favorite flowers?

I found the perfect place to hang the plaque near where I keep my Sundbakes apron. It looks like it came straight out of a Nancy Meyers movie!

Don't forget to reserve your cakes for this summer. I keep my open dates updated on my website, I can't wait to design a cake for you!

I've always been big into romanticizing my life, which is actually how Sundbakes started. But men can romanticize too! Check out Jeff with his shrimp cocktail in a martini glass that he made as a "little snack." This is the good life, folks!

Lots of wonderful graduation and birthday cake & macaron orders this week. Thank you for supporting my business, it means so much. It allows us to pay our mortgage and keep buying Jeff shrimp snacks.

For Mother's Day Jeff and I went to Atypical because moms got a free pint. Their big tables are perfect for pulling out some of our more complicated board games. During that time Felicity baked a brownie/cookie concoction that was excellent. A free beer and brownie is basically the way to my heart.

We've been watching Studio Ghibli movies for the first time. They are AMAZING! You probably already know that, and I don't know what took me so long to figure this out. There's a character in Howl's Moving Castle that looks and acts exactly like our dog Foggy. My guess is the artist had a dog that was just like him.

We pulled out our compost for the year. If you don't compost, I highly recommend it. You get to turn your trash into dirt, and it feels like an elementary school science project. Good for the earth, good for fun!

One of the funniest things this week was a conversation I had with a middle schooler who I drive home from school. On the way home Berit was singing all of the lyrics to One Week, which starts "Bert Kaempfert's got the mad hits." I'd never put thought into that lyric before, but as she sang it I realized I own a Bert Kaempfert album! How often do you get to have a conversation with a music prodigy in your back seat about Bert Kaempfert, the 1960s composer? I feel so lucky to have gotten to know her so well during school pick ups over the last three years. Teaming up with her family for carpooling has made life both easier and more joyful for all of us.

What do all of these stories have in common? Nothing, except that our community is amazing.

Please support local! Keep Minot awesome so I can selfishly keep living this amazing life.

With heart,
Elizabeth

After our amazing weather yesterday, I'm so ready for spring! I finished my annual re-read of Anne of Green Gables, so there's nothing stopping us now.

When Hint of Whimsy Photography and I were setting up this photo shoot last year, I knew I wanted to go for an Anne of Green Gables feeling (with my own Gilbert Blythe!!!). They captured that feeling so perfectly!

I've had the pleasure of painting a few Anne of Green Gables macaron sets, and I can't wait to make more. Books and movies are the perfect inspiration macarons.

I hope you bring a little bit of Anne to your spring this year.💐

“Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it... yet.”