Course 2

I just finished the 2nd cake decorating course at Micheal's. We learned a few new borders, but mostly flowers. I completely misunderstood and had a cake ready for the first class....but alas, we didn't need one. So as soon as I got home I decorated my cake with my newly learned rose buds. Cake 4: Sour cream pound cake with an orange custard filling and orange flavored frosting. This is the same cake recipe we used for our wedding cake. (Only, we put lemon glaze on each slice and a helping of fresh cut strawberries. It was so good! There was NO cake left at the end of the night.)

Class 2 and 3: We learned all about royal frosting and practiced several flowers. This frosting gets hard as a rock. Which means you can make several flowers in advance and keep them until you are ready to decorate your cake. I came home and used up all my frosting and made a ton of these little pretties.

Cake 5: Same sour cream pound cake. I marbled it with chocolate this time, and put cherry pie filling in the center. We learned how to use color flow (which helps your frosting dry smooth I think) and created birds in class. I came home and decided I wanted mushrooms instead. (Since the trip to the Redwoods I have shrooms on the mind.) So here is my last cake, shrooms, blossoms, and a basket weave which took forever!

The week after next I start course 3, fondant and gum paste! Whoopee!!