Cake Decorating

Yeah, Yeah... it's been awhile. Contrary to what some of you may think, I haven't been sitting around reading and watching Ellen all month, I've actually been pretty busy. Marathon training got really hard in September (35-45 mile weeks) which takes literally like 2 hours out of your day on average, and I also did a temp job for a city zoning and development company for 3 weeks, which was interesting to learn about a new area. Additionally, Ross and I have really enjoyed getting involved at our Church with new member classes, community group, and Financial Peace University.

All those things are fine and good, but not really the point of this post. Another thing that has consumed my Thursday nights are cake decorating classes. I love these classes! I've learned so much about cake decorating. Here are some techniques I've been honing the past month:

Class #1: We learned how to transfer pictures from a template (or just the internet) to a cake using clear gel and then filling in the design with the star pattern. Here's my underdeveloped fish...

That weekend, I made a cake and tried to transfer this sun flower that I drew on it with honey... note to self - honey doesn't work! I had to free hand this... looks okay, but not professional.

Class #2 and #3: Megan forgets her camera... way to go. We worked on roses, rose buds, clowns, sea shells, rosettes, animals, borders, etc. I pulled out my phone and took some pictures, but because I'm not technically gifted nor willing to shell the money to be so, I transfered my phone pics by taking pictures of my actual phone... nice.

Class #4: Decorate an entire cake. This was the best class because we got to do the whole process, from baking the cake to icing it (yes, my icing on my cake sucks... but I have a reason - cream cheese icing doesn't crust so you can't smooth it out. Since this was a red velvet cake -Ross's favorite - using cream cheese was not an option).

Here's the basic lattice and sea shell border. I thought my icing skills were pretty good at this point!

Here's the final product. Honestly - I think it turned out really well! A pretty good investment and use of time - I would highly recommend taking these classes.