I did a variety of things at the Art of Cake on my last day. I started by inserting the last week few students of the cake camp into Tammy's contact list on her gmail account. While I was doing that Tammy ran to the store to buy some eggs. She agreed not to do a lot of cakes at this time of the year because it would be crazy, so she is only making three - one for me, one for her daughter, and one for her best friend's daughter - all for graduations. The Boston creme cake, strawberry shortcake, and cannoli cake all require a vanilla cake base. I was responsible for making a large quantity of the vanilla cake base, and the amount of batter I used filled up three half-sheets, for one two-layer cake and two three-layer cakes. I measured all the ingredients using the scale and then I got to use the giant mixer for the first time. Scraping the huge bowl with the spatula was pretty difficult, but overall I had fun.
After the cake batter was done, I scooped 1000 grams of it onto each half-sheet and Tammy spread it across the pan. At the same time I was finally able to meet Brenda, another lady who works at the bakery. She has been busy fixing her house to put it on the market before she leaves to move to Florida.
Lastly, I sat at the front desk for a while and made calls to all the students who filled out a registration form with a phone number and no email. I needed everyone's email because it's easier to contact them that way rather than make a bunch of calls. When I finished, my brother came to pick me up and together we chose the logos to decorate our graduation cake with, since he also graduated this year.
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