My happy place is my kitchen where I spend pleasant hours creating fondant artworks and cakes.
I am not going to share pictures of my kitchen as that would be uninspiring. I am sharing some pictures of my favourite cakes.
Where is your happy place?
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Your creativity is amazing, Robbie. I love the artist palette cake. That’s really clever and so well done.
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Hi Dan, thank you, I like that one too. It was fun to make.
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My happy place would be as a taster of all those delicious artistic creations Robbie. I would be happy to offer my services – let me know?
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You would be welcome, Susan. I am working hard on the decorations for my mom’s birthday cake this coming Saturday.
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LOL! I’m agreeing with, Susan. Sign me up! Your creations are simply amazing, Robbie.
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Thank you, Jill. Art is very relaxing for me. I like making flowers the best but they are also the most difficult to make.
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PS all the best with November writing month.
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Wow! Those are magnificent.
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Thank you, Sheree
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They’re all beautiful, but I like the apples best! Well done, you talented person, you.
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Thank you, Cynthia. I do like the creativity involved in making these cakes and decorations.
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I can see that!
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Those creations are amazing, Robbie
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Thank you, Cathy. They are fun to make.
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Fantastic 🙂
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Thank you, Danny.
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You are a fabulous Baker. I understand why your kitchen is your favorite place.
My favorite places are my office in my basement and my patio. I write in both of them but I write most in my office because it’s like entering another world.
Shalom aleichem
Pat Garcia
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Hi Pat, you are fortunate to have a lovely study all for yourself. I always have to share with someone else so its never that peaceful. Have a lovely week.
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Happy cakes! 🙂
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Hi Annette, yes, cakes are always happy for me. Hugs.
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I’m not surprised your happy place is your kitchen. Mine is my terrace in the sun overlooking the lemon grove. I love to write and read there. I also chat with my family there sometimes on my tablet or laptop. We eat all our meals there unless it’s raining.
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Hi Darlene, your happy places sounds very pretty and special. I play musical chairs when it comes to working and writing space at home. I often write in my kitchen and I blog there too. There is nowhere peaceful or solitary in this house.
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WOW! These are incredible!! My happy place is my study, which overlooks some beautiful trees.
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That sounds very nice, Liz. I don’t have a study. My sons have one each. I use the dining room where my doll collection is for work purposes and I often write and blog in the kitchen.
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Yes, it is. I feel very fortunate to have it.
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What gorgeous fun, Robbie – you’re so creative. Toni x
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Making cakes is fun, Toni, and it is challenging too. A different sort of challenge to writing, less stressful for me in many ways.
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Your fondant creations are so wonderful. So real.
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Thank you, Bella.
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My happy place is anywhere as long as I’m there with daughters and Grands! ❤
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Yes, it is people that make a home, Bette. You are quite right about that.
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Your cakes are amazing!
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Hi, Tandy, thank you. I am hoping I won’t have problems assembling my mom’s birthday cake this Friday. It is an ambitious project.
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I like your large creations, like Chocolateville, but I also appreciate the intricacy and details that go into your smaller pieces. One thing I’ve always wanted to ask you, Are these strictly for show, or do these masterpieces all get eaten?
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Hi Pete, I have finished writing about Sir Chocolate now so there won’t be any more artworks about Chocolate Land. I am focusing now on flowers and artworks with messages about global warming and that sort of thing. Everything gets eaten. Well, not the fondant figurines, but the cakes get eaten.
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Great article .
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Thank you
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Your cakes are awesome, Robbie. You are so clever.
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Thank you, Norah. Hugs.
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Your fondant artwork always makes me smile – especially the ‘chips’. 😀
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Hi Meeks, I must say that I was really pleased with the chips. I made them from marzipan which was a first for me.
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Yes, I didn’t remember you using marzipan before. As edible sculpture it worked really well. I wonder if you could use it as ‘hair’? Or would that be too fine?
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Hi Meeks, this is the only time I’ve used marzipan. It is not as malleable as fondant and tends to crumble. I make hair by pushing fondant through a sieve. It creates fine strands.
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No wonder your kitchen is your happy place with all the confections, cake and creativity that live in it every day, Robbie!
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Baking and fondant art are relaxing, Terri. That is why I like them.
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Fabulous, Robbie!
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Thank you, Jennie
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You’re welcome, Robbie.
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Absolutely wonderful, 😍!
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I’m glad you like it Eleonora.
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You’re very talented and I can tell that your kitchen is your happy place. For me it’s just the opposite, but we’re all different!
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Thanks, Stevie. I don’t do boring stuff though. I only make food I like.
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You’re amazing, Robbie. Those apple-shaped cupcakes are my favorite – so creative! My happy place is my garden. 🙂
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It was a toss up for me, Diana. The garden has recently become one of my happy places too. That is why I keep making fondant flowers.
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Loved the train station fondant and would love to sit in the train and going nowhere. Lovely and awesome cakes, Robbie.
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Thank you, Kamal. I liked the train station too. I never finished the story that went with it though.
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Welcome Robbie but after my grandson was born I thought of writing a story on Train of Joy. It is in one of my short stories. Actually I have a train station just opposite my house and as he was growing I would pick him up and take him near the window to make him listen to the noise of the train and the whistle and I too would imitate the train and he would get so excited so one day the story just formed and then made my daughter too read.
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That sounds wonderful, Kamal. Lots of writers started by writing stories for their own children. That is how Winnie the Pooh and Thomas the Tank Engine were created.
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I absolutely love the art one – with the paint tubes. All of them are winners in my book though. You have such creativity – thanks for sharing!
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My pleasure, Sumyanna. I’m glad you like these.
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my happy place is the beach with a book and a cup of coffee…
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That does sound very pleasant, Jim. I can tell that you are definitely a beach fan.
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Lovely. I think I’m more of a person of happy moments than happy places. An early walk with not many people around, chatting to a good friend, reading a good book…
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Those are all lovely things to do, Olga.
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your gastronomic creations are true works of art Robbie!
On another note I watched a science program about Cape Towns water shortage of 2018. It appears most of the cities water comes from fog. There is also a movement to cut down all Pine trees as they suck up too much water and are not even natural to the country!
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You are right, Wayne, we had a horrific drought in 2018 and it caused terrible times for a lot of people. I didn’t know about the pine trees. They grow those for paper.
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which explains why they brought it in from Europe I bet.
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I wonder how anyone can bring themselves to eat your creations, Robbie. Again, darling edibles.
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Thank you, Jacqui. My family are happy to eat them.
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BTW, I’ve missed so many of your posts. Somehow, my WordPress won’t deliver blog posts to my email anymore. I spent about a week trying to figure out if I unsubscribed or they went to spam and now solved it by reading blogs through the reader. Not my preferred way, but oh well!
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WP has been doing a few strange things litely. I have found myself unable tp comment on some blogs. There is just no comment box showing. I use both email and the reader and also just do my best.
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What a creativity, Robbie! You are RobbieAngelo! :-))
It’s too bad that your artworks are eaten up. Thank you for the visit at your art gallery. Michael
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My pleasure, Michael. My art is temporary in nature but I like that people get to enjoy it using most of their senses, smell, touch, sight and taste. There is even hearing as people make happy eating noises.
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Lol But after the happ noises the plates are empty. ,-) Thank you for this great presentation,Robbie! Enjoy your weekend!
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Yes, they are empty. Thank you, Michael and I hope you have a good weekend.
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Oh my my, beautiful creations. you are talented!
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Thank you
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Wow.. what a lot of work went into that Train Station… I spent and hour in the kitchen this morning baking Apple and Blackberry pie… Again.. We enjoyed so much the one we made on Monday with my granddaughter Hubby wanted another one for the weekend.. 🙂
My happiest place has to be in the garden or allotment plot… Time for me there just vanishes, as I become one with what I am doing..
Loved your creations Robbie, and so are your family to enjoy all your baking 🙂 ❤
Have a super weekend Robbie.. ❤
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Hi Sue, fruit pies are lovely and fun to make. I enjoy making pastry. I know you like your allotment and I understand why. I have been enjoying time in my garden and I love the flowers.
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Yes escaping in the garden these days is about our only way of escaping reality… As it gets madder by the minute the laws-rules, and restrictions here.. ❤
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Yes, I am watching your news. We’ve been in lock down for months but they have eased the restrictions. Half our restaurants and other small businesses are gone and the government aid has run out.
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Love those apple cakes, Robbie. Are they apple flavored? I’d say my happy place is in my kitchen when everyone is around. I also like being there on my own in the mornings, though. That’s where I do a lot of my reading.
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These cakes aren’t apple flavoured but I do have apple cake recipes which are very nice. I also spend a lot of time in the kitchen and write at the kitchen table in the early mornings. I read in bed in the evenings though.
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If I read in bed, I’d get through about one page and be asleep!
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Fantastic work.
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