Monday, January 17, 2011

Celebrate Ever Day with Tiny Cakes!


For Christmas, my wonderful husband signed me up for a basic cake decorating class. Last week was orientation and from here on out, I must bring a "clean canvas" cake to each class. I felt a little silly about the fact that I hadn't ever even made a layer cake. First of all, let me say that making enough batter for two-and-a-half cakes is no small task. I think my Kitchen Aid mixer might have pulled something in the process. After the whole baking "fiasco" (which included two extra trips to the store), I started the icing. I'm not sure if you see the weight of the icing in the picture to the left, but there is two pounds of icing in that tupperware, and every bit of that went on the cake! Woah! I'm just doing what the cake lady told me to do. With a tad of patience, I finally got the hang of the icing tip, which is HUGE and then I started smoothing. My husband, like the sweetie he is, said that the buttercream was so smooth that it looked like fondant. I look forward to getting a better as the weeks go by! So this Tuesday, I'll take my cake and about twenty pounds of supplies to class and learn how to decorate it! The picture at the top of the post is my little leftover cake. I decided to take the Ina Garten Rustic route and see how that went. I guess it was pretty cute!