Class #2

I've been meaning to get this post up for the past few days, but life has gotten in the way around here.

The second class involved us trying to copy decorations. We practised stars, lines and writing. It's not as easy as you think when you're using the right consistency of icing. The icing was a little hard to squeeze out of the bag, but practising more with let me get used to that. My arm was sore from all the squeezing.

We started the Wilton rose and some of the girls in class went all the way with the roses and decorated their cakes. I just practised the first two steps. Making the base for the rose was a little on the tricky side if you wanted it just perfect.

I was a little disappointed because we only had about 10 minutes to actually decorate our cakes at the end of the class. I ended up just doing some simple stars on my cake and tried to do lines, but they didn't turn out right.

Next week we're doing clowns and I'm not baking a cake this time. I'll be bringing cupcakes this time and I'll ice them with Betty Crocker icing because I don't feel like making 3 batches of Buttercream icing.

A little tip we learned this class was to put some non-slip grip material (like the kind you put in your cupboards to keep things from slipping) under your cake board when transporting it in a box so that it doesn't slide around and mess up your decorations.