Grand Finale Cake...Yahoo!!!

Today was my last Wilton class. I have enjoyed my teacher and my classmates and hate that I won't get to see them every week. However, I am thrilled that you get to see my grand finale cake. I am also sharing my classmates cakes so they can enjoy seeing their cakes as well.
My cake is a stacked chocolate cake with blue fondant. I got to use a few of the techniques that we learned in class. Overall, it was a fun cake to make and decorate.


Daisies!!! I love them so much! They remind me of the simplicity of spring.
Mrs. Eleanor's beautiful fondant rose cake. Don't the roses look real? She was generous enough to share a rose with everyone in the class. She is so sweet!

Aren't the colors beautiful? India, you did great by picking the lilies, they are beautiful!

Tiered cakes are hard to transport, but this one almost didn't make it to class. Glad it did, I love the beautiful buttercream roses. I wish mine looked that good.

A great group of ladies made these beautiful cakes. I am so glad that I got to enjoy them and learned how to decorate cakes. By the way, we missed you, Kelly! Until next time...

Rolled Fondant

So, I have entered the wonderful world of rolled fondant. Since many of you are like me and have no idea what fondant is, I will try to explain. Rolled fondant originated from England where they cover fruitcakes in fondant to keep them moist. Fondant is a dough-like covering for a cake that creates a satin, smooth finish. It is edible, but in my opinion it doesn't taste that great. It also is a great medium to make beautiful roses and decorations for a cake. As a matter of fact, I have never been able to make good looking roses with buttercream icing, but my fondant roses ROCK!

The above cake is my first attempt at covering a cake in fondant. Below are some pictures of me preparing for my grand finale cake for my Wilton cake class. The white balls are made out of rolled fondant and the daisies are made out of royal icing. These need to be prepared in advance so that they have time to dry and then can be applied to the cake the day that I put it all together. I can't wait to show you my grand finale cake. It is a tiered cake that I designed myself. I will be putting it together next Monday. Until next time...

A Few Cakes

I would like to share a few of my cakes with you. I consider myself to still be a beginner. However, my friends and family would beg to differ with me. Whichever the case may be, I enjoy baking and then creating fun designs for the cakes. My ultimate goal is to make people smile when they look at one of my cakes.

This is a strawberry cake that I made for Valentine's Day. It has a buttercream icing with rosettes all over the top. It was a fun cake to make and eat!

This cake was one of my first cakes. It looked good until I accidently hit it with my finger. I still like the rainbow, just not the icing job.

This next cake was a white layer cake with chocolate buttercream icing that I made for my brothers 18th birthday. The balloons, stars and numbers are made out of color flow. It was my first time playing with color flow and I really enjoyed it!

This was one of the cakes that I had to make during one of my classes. I made all the flowers ahead of time out of royal icing. Then I used buttercream icing to apply a basketweave to the side and part of the top. I really like to do a basketweave.




















The next cake was a creation for my sisters birthday. I handmade each of the flowers out of royal icing. It was a white layered cake with buttercream icing. I got to work on my basketweave some more. It was kinda hard to cut into this one.





















I like to call the next cake the Polka Dot. I tried a new chocolate cake recipe, which I was told was great. I made this cake for a friend and they enjoyed it! There is a buttercream icing and the polka dots were made out of...well, I have to keep some secrets.

This last cake was a chocolate cake with cream cheese icing. The icing was a little harder to work with, but the quilt that I wanted turned out looking good. I also used a decorators comb and liked the results on the side of the cake.

So, there are a few of the cakes that I have made. I hope that you may get ideas from what I have shared. I am also open to suggestions. Until next time...

Welcome!

I am new to the blogging sphere, so you will need to hang with me as I get this blog up and running. I was encouraged to put together a blog so that I can share with you my many hobbies. Mainly I will post information about cakes that I have been making, but I will occasionally talk about some of my other hobbies.

I have many layers to my personality and because of that my hobbies are varied. I enjoy hiking, but also enjoy curling up with a good book. I also love photography! Every once in a while I may just blog about a few of these other fun things.

Welcome! I am glad that you came to visit my blog. Let me know if there is anything that you think would make this blog better. Until next time...