Course 3, Class 2

I am now taking the last cake class that is offered at Michaels. I am kind of sad, but will be glad to not have to prepare icing or cake every single week. I think this was my favorite cake of them all so far. And from the comments that I got from people who saw it I think it is a favorite of others as well. It is a cake that is supposed to look like a present. First we covered our cakes in fondant, then created the bow and cut outs to put on the cake. The rest of the class was spent learning how to make the fondant roses. I think our final cake is supposed to have an insane number of fondant roses on them, so I think that this next week I'll be spending my free time making fondant roses.

This next class we don't have to make a cake, we just have to bring a ton of different colors of royal icing. We will be learning how to make a few more flowers like lillies and poinsettas.

Here are more pictures of the cake. This one was a little boring - just a butter cake with vanilla buttercream filling. I was rushing to get it baked and frosted so now fancy filling this time.

Cinderella Cake

One of my coworkers had joked around about me making a cake for him one day. Then he suddenly came to me and said he was serious. It was his daughter's 6th birthday and he needed a cake to feed 25 - 30 people. And that his daughter wanted Cinderella. It took a lot of prep, and I definitely came out in the red after he paid me because I had to buy a bunch of new supplies, but here is the final result. He said that she loved it!

Birthday cake for my in-laws

My mother and father-in-law both went to Louisiana State University for college. They also have birthdays in consecutive months. So since we had one celebration for both this year, I decided I couldn't go wrong by making an LSU cake. So here is the cake along with the inspiration for the cake. Unfortunately I only took a cell phone picture: