A dear colleague is retiring from education. She has been a classroom teacher and is providing professional development to teachers of reading and language arts. I was asked to make her retirement reception cake, but I want to do something out of the ordinary. She loves red. I want to do something with red roses, but not just your average sheet cake! Got any really great design ideas?

Retirement cakes are so individual. I don't usually like the idea of throwing a bit of all someone's interests at a cake but for a retirement I think it works. A dear friend of mine retired (also from teaching) last year and that's what I did for her. She loved it!

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