Cake 101, Class #3

Hello again, curious blog readers. It's time for another report on how my cake decorating is coming along. And don't you worry your pretty (and/or handsome) little heads, this is gonna be another post chock full of pictures. (Yeehaw!) So, tonight we were supposed to experiment with the thick icing and learn how to make roses & clowns. Uh, yeah, please note the italics used in the previous sentence. We did not learn step 2 of the rose, nor did any of us opt for the clown cake. Our teacher, Ilene, did make this clown, though.

And as cool/easy as she did make it look, none of the rest of the class (myself included) opted for trying to repeat the experience. Mind you, Christine, Christian and I had planned on doing clowns (mostly because we thought we had to), and so we went into class with the "teamwork" mentality. Since we'd thought we were clown-bound, we'd decided pre-class that we'd each do a primary color with our icing and then we'd share bags (and thus all three of us would have a super cute multi-colored clown). But then, uhm... we decided not to do a clown, and so we were each kind of stuck with only one color of icing. Oops. (Lucky me, though, because I chose red. We all know that I'm a big fan of red, so it turned out well for me.)

And since this post is (as they pretty much all are), all about me... please allow me to show you a close up of the top of my cake. Look at all those red flowers. They make me absolutely giddy! (And I just learned how to make them tonight... I'm in love with this tip!)

But now I'll move on to the rest of the class... Angela (of Starred Cake Fame) was the only other girl to bring an actual cake (the other four ladies brought cupcakes, which looked fun and easy... but since when do I go the fun & easy route?). This is her Lovely from this week. (Seriously, I think she's gifted. She claims not to be gifted, but rather, to be a practicer of the art. So, if she's practicing throughout the week, I guess we can still be friends.) Seriously, isn't this bee-yoo-tiful?

Here's a shot of Christine showing her school spirit ("Go, Lobos, go!"). Pretty sweet blue & white cupcakes, if you do ask me. Of course, as a fellow SHS grad, I am always a fan of royal blue & white.

And here's a shot of Christian's primary colored collection of cakes. (Her "assigned" color was yellow, and then she made a bit of blue and borrowed some of my red to offset the yellow.) My favorite of hers was the yellow all-starred guy. He reminded me of a crustacean, and literally had me wanting to sing Under The Sea in class. (I held back, but only because not all of the ladies know me well enough to know that my life is a musical. Yet. Maybe I'll let them in on that little secret next week. I'll keep you posted.)

Tiffany and Raina (the mom & daughter team that were killing me with their perfection last week) are up to all kinds of cute things. Check their cupcakes... Those little creative geniuses were coming up with THE CUTEST ideas! Oh, the cherries... they were so stinkin cute! I only wish I'd walked around to the other side of the table to take their pic, rather than taking it from my side of the table. They look very upside down and not as cute as they really were. That's my bad, not Tiffany's. Oops. :(

All in all, it was a VERY FUN night. I hadn't been sure if I was up to it this week, but I'd frosted myself this little white top hat... just in case. (And yup, there's my McD's cup there in the pic along with. I'm nothing if not predictable. I've gotta have my Coke, y'know.) The good news? This week my icing wasn't as crumby. It turns out that what the teacher said is true... If you put a thin glaze on the cake while it's still warm, and let it get hard, the glaze'll hold the crumbs in and they won't get into your icing. GENIUS!

It turned out pretty well, if I do say so myself. (The cake, not me so much... but I was so proud of my red flowery creation that I had to be in the pic - even if I have been sick all week, look dog-tired and am still a little swollen from the crud.) I'm a silly goose (and a bit of a camera hog), what can I say?

AAAHHHH!!! I love this class! It's the most fun EVER!