Elaine's POV

--written by Elaine

I had wanted to start off this blog with how we started and why the name Quintbelles. Val wrote how we came up with the name already. I tease her that if I were the author of that article, I would have written that it all started with me. Tee-hee…

But kidding aside, we started with simple recipes like cookies and biscuits. Lifestyle Channel was not yet shown on tv-- we didn’t even know how to beat egg whites into soft peaks. With no formal baking lessons, we made a salty cookies (due to use of salted butter then added salt!), uneven baking (temperature mistakes), uneven shapes (no patience) , flopped cakes (underbaked), burnt cakes (overbaked!), watery icings (no mixer), tough pie crusts... every mistake you can think of...

So we try and try again, and even enrolled in some baking classes...the outcome improved over time and we would change the recipes according to our liking. I remember our first cake--it was a total disaster. It turned out like melted ice cream! It didn't hold its shape! Our parents, supportive of our venture, tasted our cakes and told us parts we could change. We'd like to think that we've improved since and we’re now doing wedding cakes, birthday cakes, and other celebration cakes.

Drop by our site www.quintbelles.multiply.com and view our recent cakes --you wont find the melted cake there! Haha! :)