Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Cake #3




Meh - This one was just a practice one since the one I actually made in class, I had to hand off to a friend that drove us to the airport right after my cake class - I couldnt' get any good pictures of that one, so I just made a new cake (kinda crazy looking) to practice my technique. Also, I kinda made this one in a hurry since it was like 11:30 pm. and I wanted to get it decorated by 12.

I tried the Reverse Shell border (which I think would've looked better if I had use Medium icing instead of Thin - which is called for but I was rushing). Then I tried to make leaves with this one tip, but I forgot and used Medium instead of Thin for the leaves and the icing clumped in teh tip and wouldn't come out right - so I ended up fudging it and just using this other tip that I've never done leaves in. =/ Oh well. this is what happens when I'm rushing =P

Then I had to rush doing the smoothing of the cake. =/ so there were some lines at the top and are some holes around the side - gah. =/


The roses turned out okay - I need to figure out how make them smoother tho - i think I need to add more piping gel. But also, I think I want to make the inside bud the same color as the base.

Then, I did some rosebuds along the bottom and rosettes at the top. Meh. First time for a purple cake! hahahahah :) I thoguht i would just have some fun - this is what happens. haahhaha :) Guess I shouldn't have tried it on a rush job. Oh well! :) It was fun! Can't wait to make some more!

We're learning royal icing & color flow icing to make those cool flowers now! We'll see how it goes! :)

Friday, September 22, 2006

Yay! Cake #2!




So I made cake number two. And it was supposed to have these cutesy lil clowns on them.. which turn out to be really easy to make!! But like Keith needed a cake for his work since a co-worker was leaving. So he told me to make the cake as a goodbye cake. Dagnabit. =P No clowns on this one.. hehe =) I should've just made one like climbing up the back of the cake. hahahaha :)

Anyways, here's the picture of the second one. We did the shell border and learned how to do those drop flowers. The actual colors of the cake are in that bright picture. I had to take it at night since Keith was taking the cake in the morning =P So all the colors in the other pictures look a lil dark and green.. ahhahah =) oohhh welll.. Yay! Can't wait to make more and more! i was thinking about making a purple octopus... hahaha ;) That'd be kinda fun!!

Friday, September 15, 2006

Yay! My first cake!




Yay! I made my first cake after taking my first cake lesson! I think it looks alright.. it's a rainbow cake if you can't tell. =) Yay! it was sosososso fun!! I can't wait till we make more!

sorry about the coloring - it's a lil dark... I took them in the morning when it was a little overcast. But yah - we had to make the cake, level the cake, ice the cake (which could be a lil tricky, I think I made mine a lil thin on the sides), and then make all the icing and then color all the icing... It sure did take a while.. Oh well.. Yay! I can't wait to make more and eat more cakes! =) Yum!!! =)