My friend Karina asked me to take a cake decorating class with her and I must say it was a lot of fun!! I learned so much. I'm one of those people who hates to spend money on cakes especially when I feel like I should be able to make them. I'm also one of those people that know nothing about decorating cakes. My two favorite cakes that my mom used to make growing up did not have any frosting so I didn't frost much. I bought an instruction booklet a few years ago and learned the very basics...I mean the very basics. I never learned to do any flowers or how to smooth a cake so it was basically not a very good deal for me.
I took pictures as I frosted the cake for my final project...see for yourself:
1. I didn't take a picture of this step but the first thing you do after baking and cooling a cake is level it. I got a really cool new tool to do that...so much easier than trying to take a knife which I used to do.
2. The second step is to pipe some frosting on the bottom layer to create a dam for your filling. As you can see my filling was simply a pudding cup...a trick I learned from class...love it!! =)
3. The third step was to put the top back on...I put it on "inversely" so that my new top would be completely flat (it was the original bottom of one of the cakes).
4. The fourth step was simply frosting the cake. I frosted the cake and smoothed it as well as I could with my spatula. As you can see it's not very smooth..that's what my cakes used to look like.
5. The next step was really smoothing the cake. The Wilton method is using a piece of parchment paper. I learned an even better method from my classmate. She told me about the VIVA paper towel. It worked great...see for yourself. Isn't it amazing?
Stay tuned for pictures of my final project and pictures of the second night of class. I didn't take pictures of the other two nights b/c I just didn't think they were that cool. =)
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