WELCOME

Hello there! Welcome to my new blog for Bangarang Cakes! I'm so excited to share with you what I love to do.
I bake.
I went to culinary school to be a Pastry Chef. One of the best years of my life. I learned so much and met some great people. In cakes class (how freakin' cool is it that my college courses were "cakes", "bread", "custard"?), we were allowed to be more creative and as soon as I found out what our first big project was, I got so STOKED that before he (CHEF RALPH) could even finish explaining all the details, I had already begun sketching out ideas.
We were to pick a theme and decorate a cake using only modeling chocolate. He showed us pictures of what other students had done to kind of inspire us I guess. Many had chosen movie themes, especially Disney, and even Music so I thought it'd be awesome to do a song... "The Girl from Ipanema". I'm half Brazilian and following tradition of doing Brazilian themed projects for school, I thought it'd be perfect.
After making this cake and seeing how excited I was that I had an idea and it came through, making cakes became my favorite part of being a baker/Pastry Chef. Probably because I had no idea I was capable of being creative in an artsy way...and it working out lol.

 

Oh, and if you're wondering how I got the name "Bangarang", please do yourself a favor and watch "Hook". One of the best movies of all time, seen it over and over again and quote it often =).
Thank you for taking interest in this new project of mine and I hope you keep comin' back because there's more to come!