Roses

Today I prepared for my second cake decorating class by making icing... yummy yummy sugary icing... :-)

During class, we learned how to fill the icing bag and use couplers with our icing tips. Once we pretty much mastered stars and dots, they taught us how to make roses... I thought it would be super hard and complicated, but see for yourself....

My First Rose.

Once I started getting into it, I ran out of little wax paper squares and started running out of icing...

All the Pretty Roses...

I am going to keep practicing my roses, stars and dots. When I actually put them on a cake, I will take lots of pictures. 

Cupcakes, icing & filing ...oh my!!

So tonight was the big night, making icing and and icing the little cake and 12 cupcakes.... so first I decided to fill the cupcakes. Chocolate pudding Yum!!

Time to make the icing... Shortening, check. No Color Vanilla, check. Meringue Powder, check. Water, check. Lots of Powdered Sugar, check. Sifted, check check.  I did a pretty good job of not making a complete mess.

The final products for round one....

Cake: Yellow cake with Raspberry filling and White Buttercream icing
Cupcakes: Yellow Cake with Chocolate Filling and White Buttercream icing

They are not perfect but I think they look pretty good for my first little projects on my own.

Things I have learn from this first experience... don't over fill the cupcake pan, or the cake pan for that matter and take it all one step at a time. I think next time I will bake the cake one night, make icing the next, and ice and decorate the next night.

First Cake...

Sooooo I used my new cake pan... the 6" cake cake pan.  Well let's just say proper measuring cups are on my shopping list along with clear vanilla. The chart said 2 cups of batter and I think my measuring cup is a off.... kinda looks like a souffle...

First Class...

Well today I took my first Wilton cake decorating class. I am taking it at the JoAnn's in Frisco. I learned about baking a cake, torting a cake and icing a cake...Tonight I am going to bake a little Ducan Hines Butter Yellow 6" cake and 12 cupcakes and let them cool completely.... I will post pictures before I make icing tomorrow.... Till then