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Official Cake Decorator

Tuesday, August 09, 2011

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My daughter and I have an official skill. We took a beginning cake decorating course together...and passed! During this class we had a lot of fun learning how to pipe designs onto our cakes. I learned that I hate "buttercream frosting" when it is made with shortening. blech. I also learned that decorating cakes with my daughter is really fun!

My tips and assorted supplies for cake decorating.

This is my first cake I made during the 4 week course.

I filled it with this seedless raspberry jam. Delicious.

Morgan made this chocolate cake with a fish stencil.

Here is a closer view.

The rose the instructor made.

The rose I made.

This is our final cake for week 4. I learned how to use my tips, make roses and leaves etc. Please remember I am a beginner...but I don't think mine looks too bad.

Look how moist and delicious this cake looks. Please note that for the final cake I had to make buttercream with real butter (against the Wilton instructor's wishes...oops I guess I'm a cake-decorating rebel) No more of that disgusting shortening crap. After I made my buttercream I put this food coloring in it to make the frosting white which makes it easier to color. So much better tasting.

I am an official Basic cake decorator according to Wilton! I love gettn' me some educashun.

Did you know that here in Idaho there is a group called Community Cakes that is a non-profit charity that makes sure everyone in the area receives a birthday cake on their birthday! Volunteers bake birthday cakes for foster children, hospice patients, Veterans and anyone else who is deserving of a cake on their special day. I love that idea and have added my name to the list of volunteers. If you are interested in lending a creative (or not so creative) hand, please go to http://www.communitycakes.com/.