Baking started as a hobby during my teenage years. My aunt had been a baker for many years prior and taught me the basics and insider secrets of baking, decorating and building cakes. Over the next several years baking was simply a hobby used as a creative outlet while medical school, medical residency and starting my primary career as a physician kept me busy. Since then baking has become even more of a passion. I spend my free time baking cakes to celebrate the birthdays, babies, weddings, anniversaries and major life events of all my closest family, friends, physician colleagues, nursing and medical office staff, and all their loved ones. I've baked cakes for my coworkers, friends, parents, nieces, nephews, and neighbors, I even made my own wedding cake and may soon be planning my very first divorce cake... but the most exciting cakes I've done have been for my son, who is almost NINE years old!! Everyone has finally convinced me it is time to branch out and share my love and knack for decorating cakes with everyone around us.