Making a Scooby Doo birthday cake today, for a lady in Mifflinville. Hope it turns out. I'll have to ask her to send me a picture of it because my youngest daughter was carrying our camera around and now its broke.

BUMMER!!

It's been a few weeks since I have posted anything and we have learned a lot in class. We learned how to make character cakes and pipe stars on to make the outline and body of the character.



We also learned the proper method of putting together a double layer cake. We learned how to cut the cake flat, witch I knew but it was nice to know I was doing it correctly. I learned that putting a crumb coat on and letting it dry makes doing the final coat a lot easier. We learned how to pipe shells for a shell border and rosettes as well as Fleur De Lis.

The week before last we made Valentine cakes and cup cakes. The cup cakes were just the leftover batter from the cakes that we made, which were just yellow cake. We had to decorate one of the cupcakes for a contest in the class and I won 2nd place.

This week we made Black Forest cake and yes it is all gone. For those of you who don't know, Black Forest cake is chocolate cake with cherry pie filling and whip cream icing and maraschino cherries on top.



And of course, as many of you know, we have Christian with us now and he continues to be a delight.

I had a good class on Wednesday we learned how to make Pound cake and a simple frosting. We learned how to use the creaming method. Being that it was the first class, we learned some basic pipping techniques. We learned how to make drop flowers and other simple decorations.








We are also one step closer to being done with the upstairs Bedroom. Yesterday I installed the paneling on the knee walls and am very impressed with how it looks. I think it makes the room look a lot better

Sunday afternoon and evening. I love baking with my kids, and the results too.

I had my cake class on Wednesday. It will be a fun class and I'm really looking forward to it. We are going to learn a lot of basic decorating techniques and basic cake baking skills and methods. We each get to bake and decorate our own cake and or cupcakes next week. We are making pond cake and cup cakes and we'll be bringing home around a dozen cupcakes and some small loaf pound cakes. Minus the large amount of cake that will inundating my house I am very excited about this semester.

After two weeks of break from school we still have two more weeks to go. I have done some baking, but I've been concentrating on my house and finishing the up stairs so we can move into the Master bedroom. We decided to add a closet and desk space to the Master bedroom



The desk space will be to the left of the closet. I'll be finishing up the last few coats of spackling today and tomorrow, then hopefully sanding will go smoothly and I should be able to paint Saturday night or early next week. After that I can put bead board on the knee walls and trim the doors and move in, before I go back to school on the 18th. That's two weeks so I should be able to.

Christmas was lots of fun, my two little girls had a lot of fun opening their presents. We went to my mom's that day, after we opened things. What a good dinner we had, there was BBQ'D spare ribs, and potatos, corn, a few different types of salads. Then for desert we had lots of good stuff. I made the pies and we had, Pumpkin, Sour Cherry and Blueberry, and Billy made the pecan pie filling. We had angel food jello cake and as always ice cream.

Since the semester ended I've made cookies and bread twice, pies numerous times. I am starting to think I should just make our own bread and stop buying it but that probably will not happen for a long time, due to the lack of time.