Farewell!!

This in not my good bye but a story of some one else whom has moved on in life. This is not a sad story, quite the contrary, but a wonderful story of a fun person. Since June of 2010, I have had the pleasure of working with R. Hickman, he was my supervisor, up until recently when he decided to retire from the Armed forces. He was an adventurous man with an abundance of wisdom, witty comments and loads of service stories. Through out my time working with him, I began to learn more about myself, as odd as that may sound. He helped me figure out what I really enjoyed in life and pushed me to start setting goals for my future. This includes my fickleness and all my joys, with all of this being said, I had decided to bake a cake for him and two others who were leaving my command. I decided to start simple, a strawberry cake, I figured every likes a little strawberry cake. Then I decided to think how can I show my appreciation for him and incorporate something different that he may like. I began to think of all the different places he had travelled to and the foods he said he liked. So I then decided to create a Cannoli Cake. Because I am not a professional baker I had to think how to make it look less like a home made cake and more presentable. In my mind I went over every picture i had seen of cakes and all the food network shows. Alas, thanks to Cake Boss, I decided to try and construct a 3 tier cake. When I finished I was so excited that it was completed but extremely nervous on the comments I would receive from my co-workers. To make it worse, every one is cutting back on sweets due to our semi annual fitness exam, so no one wanted to be the first to taste the cake. Finally someone decided to try it and once they said it taste great everyone else wanted a piece. I had also feared that I would have to take some back home but needless to say, left over cake was sparse. I am extremely proud to have made them (the persons leaving the command) happy and more so Mr. Hickman. I can't wait to take some classes and some go to culinary school. Check out the photos of the cake in my gallery.