Cake Class Three~Cupcakes

Wednesday was cake class three for us girls.
We were making cupcakes.
So in the interest of double duty...we decided to make the cupcakes to use for Quinn's baby shower (that is this Saturday at Eva's place).

We did learn a ton of techniques last night... leaves, pompom flowers and shaggy mums.
But then we turned around and made what we wanted for Quinn's baby shower.
Here is how they turned out...

Fun class but we are kind of glad we are almost done.
These classes definitely are a lot of work and prep and clean up.
Our next group activity may be a little more relaxed.
Especially for a midweek activity.

Cake Decorating Class Two

Week Two was a bigger challenge.
We had to make a cake to torte (ie. add filling in the middle layer).
I wish I had taken step by step pictures.

Here were the prep instructions.

We learned how to do gel transfers.
And ice a cake.
And torte (ie. Fill) a cake.

Val, Eva and I took some liberty with colour choices.
We swapped out boring blue for fabulous pink.
Here is how mine turned out.

And yes there are crumbs you can see in the frosting.
And it's definitely not smooth.
Oopsie.
You can see that Eva's (above) is much much smoother and perfectly symmetrical.
At least I had a treat for my staff this week.

Next week is cupcakes and flowers.
We are using it to make cupcakes for Quinn's baby shower we are throwing next weekend.




Pics are from the Wilton Course One Book.

Cake Decorating Class One

Eva, Val and I decided to take Michael's Course 1.
As a way to get together mid week but with a goal in mind.
So week one was mainly a basics and intro class.

And we learned to make stars.
It was good.
We only got into trouble once.

The only thing we all agreed upon was how difficult it was in terms of prep.
There is a lot of prep for these classes.
So therefore we will take a break before attemping other such classes.

Here are the results of class one.

Can you guess who cookies are whose???
I will reveal later.
Here was the inspiration/instructions for the cookies.

Here are whose cookies are whose...
Did you guess correctly.

I made some for my staff with there initials.
So it was fun.
And I think we are ready for the next week's lesson.