Yesterday evening was the last of my four week cake decorating classes that I’d been taking this past month, and we were asked to design and decorate our own cakes. For my final project, I created this rose cake. I can’t call it perfect, but as an amateur, I’d say this is one of the best decorating jobs I’ve personally ever done. While I love baking, the decorating aspect of cakes and cupcakes has always been a struggle with hit or miss results. Taking this cake decorating course helped me learn some great techniques, which will hopefully lead to better decorating results in my future baking endeavors!
I’m especially thankful for Dan, who encouraged me to take the classes, and who has been my photographer to document my creations along the way, as well as my taste tester. :)Â I feel very lucky to have a husband who is so understanding and supportive of my various creative hobbies and interests!
Baking is one of my favorite hobbies, and I’ve always been interested in taking a formal cake decorating course. Now that I’m at home with Mio, Dan encouraged me to take advantage of the opportunity to enroll in one and have a couple hours to be creative and immerse myself in something fun every week, while he watches Mio after coming home from work. This is my second week in the four-week beginners course, and I love it! Although there are some things that I already know, there’s a lot of new tips and tricks that I’m learning, and it’s really nice to have that short break every week to myself to do something fun and interesting that’s not baby-related.
Here’s the cake I decorated in class this week…
Piped shapes, letters, and borders.
I always wondered how people get the base frosting on the sides and top of the cake so smooth... now I know!
The teacher encouraged us to frost chocolate cakes, because people usually are intimidated with working with chocolate cakes because the crumbs can be so noticeable when they get into the frosting. She showed us that there’s nothing to be afraid of, and that you can still do a seamless, clean job of frosting without getting crumbs all over the frosting!
Double layer chocolate cake, with white almond-flavored frosting.
Even layers of chocolate cake inside.
As for the taste, Dan really enjoyed it! I thought he’d think it was too sweet (which it was), but he said that it tasted surprisingly light. Good thing, because he will be eating more decorated cakes for the next few weeks… 😛
The only negative thing about the course is that there are so many supplies that the course requires, and the supply costs really add up! I’m not sure if I would have signed up had I know how much it would all cost in the end, but there’s no turning back, and in the end, I’m glad I did sign up. At least the supplies will last a very long time, and will come in handy for all the future cakes I make and decorate! (Eventually, I want to take some of the more advanced courses in fondant and gum paste decorations, too!)
I can’t wait to see what we will be learning next class! Special thanks to the hubby for giving me the nudge to go ahead and take the course! Hopefully we’ll see a big improvement in my cakes from hereon! 😀
