Trying to catch up a bit...



 I've been really bad about updating regularly, so I'm going to try to get caught up this week. Happy belated Thanksgiving. Did some cooking and baking this year, but in the midst of doing so, forgot to take pictures of what I made. I guess that saves me from having to do a separate blog post about it?

Today's post is of a cake I did about a month ago. (Clearly around the same time as Halloween). As a final project for my Wilton cake decorating class, we had to make a cake and flowers to go on said cake. We then brought the cake in to class and decorated it with said flowers and a basket weave on the side of the cake.



The cake itself is marbled orange, in both color and flavor. Buttercream icing on the outside, with grey royal icing roses. Making this cake happened to coincide with a friend's birthday, so it was consumed in celebration.

Fondant Flowers

I've got other birthday cakes to blog about, but I thought I would try and break it up a little bit so you don't have to scroll through and be like "cake... cake... cake... cake...".

During the month of October, I decided to take a Wilton cake decorating class to improve my skills and occupy my time a little bit. The class focused on flowers and decorating. We learned how to make flowers using fondant/gum paste and icing/frosting.









Pansy



I made these flowers while in class by combining gum paste and fondant. The two flowers above were made by cutting the fondant/gum paste material out using a special cutter and using gum paste glue to hold the pieces together. The pansy used a similar technique, but involved a bit more work and sculpting.   



Birthdays, Birthdays, Birthdays!

It seems like half the world has a birthday in late October/early November, including multiple people I know. This, of course, means one thing: birthday cake. And I'm more than happy to make cakes for family and friends when asked; I shudder at the words 'store bought cake'.

This particular birthday cake was made for one of my aunts. The 3 layer cake is chocolate, the frosting is peanut butter buttercream, as requested. I was really excited about getting to try out some of my recently acquired flower-making skills (I took a Wilton cake decorating class series last month). The flowers (also PB buttercream)were supposed to be roses, but look kind of like carnations, which was a little bit of a happy accident. Everybody liked how pretty the cake looked, and were even more impressed with how great it tasted.