Cake Decorating

I thought it would be neat to take a "fun" class my last semester of college. I convinced my friend Cami to take the class with me. It's a good thing I convinced her, because I honestly would have failed that class without her. It was a class that I always forgot about until the last minute. Thankfully Cami would always make an extra batch of frosting for me and have it ready for class.
This picture is my final project. I started out from not really ever frosting a cake and ended up with this. It is a two-tier chocolate cake with chocolate fondant. Everything on this cake had to be edible, and I had to make each flower by hand.

This was a lot of stress yet at times a lot of fun too. With this class if you make a mistake you don't use an eraser. I found myself always plopping extra frosting into my mouth. Some class periods I would come home with a stomach ache and headache ... I guess you could say that I had a lot of mistakes on those days.





The cupcakes were actually a fun treat. These cupcakes were for a Baby Shower that I hosted at my apartment. The theme was "Pink or Blue" because the expectant mother did not know what she was having at the time. So I made pink and blue cupcakes.

On top of each cupcake I had a different letter. When placed next to each other they spelled "B-A-B-Y." I had a lot of fun with those. I think they turned out well. Considering I did this in my own kitchen, without my teacher supervising.

This cake with the flowers and butterflies was a nightmare. I spent a good chunk of time outside of class with Cami trying to perfect these flowers. A lot of stressful laughter came with making this cake. (I also went home with a stomach ache from nibbling on all of the mistakes.)

On this cake, I had to do a basket weave design on the side of the cake. It was a bit tricky, but I think I did alright.

This little white cake was the cake that almost made me drop the class. Nothing went right for me on this cake. My teacher made small chocolate cakes for each person and then we had to take white frosting and frost the cake. Dark cake and white frosting do not mix well. My quote from that night came from the Emporer's New Groove. "You did that on purpose." It was in theme with Valentine's Day.

This one below was one of my first cakes. For some reason I was able to make the brightest pink color out of the entire class. In later classes I also made very vibrant oranges and reds. Too bad I wasn't trying to get the bright colors.

This class was a lot of stress and yet a lot of fun. I would not have been able to survive without a good friends, a good husband, and a good supply of medicine.