In our class on Wednesday we decorated some cakes for Easter this Sunday. We didn't do any baking which is that part that I like but that's Ok with me too. We decorated pound cakes in the shape of lambs. We decorated cup cakes to look like Easter Baskets and put flowers on chocolate covered egg cakes.

The nose got smashed against the box on the way home.

This is the cake I decorated on Wednesday in class (it was baked the week earlier).





I also made a Peanut butter Tandy Cake, and Jewish Apple Cake.

It's been pretty busy here at our house and it seems like there isn't much to show for it. Linda was sick with the flu twice, fortunately the kids didn't get anything yet. I had mid terms in most of my classes and they seemed to go pretty well. We haven't had cake class in two week because of snow one day and a teacher day last week so not much baking too show off. We do have to make six icing roses for class and they turned out pretty well if you ask me.



We made Carrot cake in our last class. It was pretty good, Linda took it to work and they ate it all in a very short time. Linda said they were all raving about it being so good, which always makes you feel good.

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