Great reviews

As I mentioned in my previous post, we had a corporate walk through this past week that went really well. So well in fact that the big BIG wigs are flying in to come see a couple stores on the east coast and my store was recommended for the visit. We had a second walk through with the district managers on Friday just to make sure everything was in order for the big visit and that was splendid. So with almost all of my displays done and looking good I'm feeling very confident about the walk through tomorrow. Fingers crossed they love it as well! I got some great feedback from the staff and customers this week about the way the store looks, and how I complete projects so it felt really good. One coworker even said that I should consider making my goal to work at Rockefeller Center because she knows I'd do an awesome job there. Rock Center as you all know is the mecca of window displays. It was an awesome thing to hear even if she was just being nice. I'm just going to keep working hard and see where it leads me.

Anywho I had a lot of things to celebrate this weekend. Mike getting a new job! Jon Lampley and his gang finally living his dream in NYC and of course kitty Kat's birthday.  Since we wrote down on the 2014 bucket list that we were going to bake a "legit" cake from scratch I thought this would be the perfect occasion to do so.

After drooling for hours on foodgawker.com we picked a nicely decorated and slightly challenging coconut carrot cake with cream cheese frosting. All and all in took us about 3.5 hours of whisking, double boiling, sampling, and baking to make this triple layer beauty but it turned out delicious. See for yourself below

This is how much butter and cream cheese was in the frosting. My insides hurt just thinking about the amount of fat, but at least it was shared with about 20 people. 

Whisking some egg whites...

 The three layers! Inside the cake are carrots, raisins, cranberries, walnuts, and shredded coconut.

The completed project! Those are toasted coconut shavings on the side and shredded coconut on top. 

Eating cake on the rooftop in the Lower East Side was a nice beginning to a fun night that included ski ball, foosball, and meeting lots of new people. Cheers!