I had a CAKE today, or at least petit fours—mini cakes—but they made my day. Simple pleasures, bursts of sweetness, moist almond bites that showed up rather unexpectedly. I was volunteering at the kids’ school and another parent brought treats. Not typical, bad batch of chocolate chip cookies or store-bought donuts, but the ‘can I hire you to make all my cakes forever?’ kind of treats! As in: ‘who are you and where have you been all my life?’ kind of treats.

Turns out, Cindylyn (alayeredcake@hotmail.com) installed a commercial kitchen and is a bonafide, qualified, really talented cake and cookie baker. She calls her company A Layered Cake (no website yet: a genuinely undiscovered gem). So if you want down and out good cakes or petit fours or specialty cookies for corporate or private parties, she is a nice person to know. I don’t think she has done the package-and-mail thing yet, so for now all of you Seattlites have first dibs.

Next week I am going to ask her to create a very special cake for my son’s birthday. To make things a wee bit challenging, the theme is Calvin & Hobbes (my son LOVES all the books and has many of the jokes/cartoons memorized). He even, I kid you not, hand-selected the exact image of Calvin that he prefers for ‘cake-topping.’ This is my first round of hire-it-done and I am looking forward to a little help with the birthday baking! I will still round out my son’s birthday with classroom cupcakes and his favorite dinner on his special day. Cheers to bakers—and business owners—everywhere!

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