Cake decorating classes!

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have been eagerly waiting for the time and opportunity to enrol in a cake decorating class! and the time has finally come! Now that CA has been completed and done (praise God!!!), I can start these cake classes :)

This week will actually be Week 5 of the course - there are 7 weeks per level (I just havet got round to blogging earlier!) This is Level 1.

Above is a bear that we made out of icing :))) Cute huh!!! :)


It has been really fun - we have been taught to make sugar roses - made out of fondant and let me tell you - it is hard work!!! No wonder wedding cakes can cost thousands of dollars! I will never look at a wedding cake in the same way again. I love the end result though - at the moment, our class is struggling to find the motivation to make these roses as they are so delicate and time consuming. But they are so pretty!!!


Last week, we were taught to ice kids' birthday cakes! So here is Elmo. Apparently there was something not quite right with the texture of the cream (to do with the manufacturer) so the cream was a little softer than usual (hence the white parts appear a little "wobbley"!) and didnt seem to absorb the colours as it normally does! But here is Elmo - a mud cake Elmo cake :)

There's 5 levels to these classes, and I'm already thinking of signing up for Level 2 in 2008 :) The classes are fun and the teacher is fantastic!!! Whilst it is definitely hard work and I dont think I will go into this full time, it is nice to have a new hobby and learn an extra skill!!! :)