Silly girls and the webcam…

More webcam photos… I love when the 2 and 5 year olds are in front of the camera!! I wanted to label all these, but their faces are much better than anything I could say.

I love the personality…

“You’re a baker!”

Says my husband to me the other night.  I laughed in the middle of my mixing and said, “what do you mean by that?” Wondering if he was being sarcastic or just making a comment. He said, “you’ve just been baking everyday.” To which I sarcastically replied, “it’s your fault, you bought me the class!” 

I have {finally} been taking a cake decorating thanks to my supportive husband and great friend, Natasha.  He bought me the class for Christmas and Tash takes the kids for me while I go.  It has been a wonderful out. I have loved taking the time to learn new tricks and just be able to practice. I lucked out with private lessons because the lady who was in it with me had family problems so she will take it next month.  The instructor is great and what a small world, she knows my mom and makes stuff for bereavement for the hospital and I know her son and daughter in law!

Here are a few of our creations…

Week 2

week 3- Cupcakes and flowers

                                        

Week 4 –Design your own cake using the skills you have learned.  I made a cake for Natasha, using the flowers and rosettes we learned during class the writing wasn’t my favorite, but I’ll work on it.  Then I also decided to make a Super Bowl cake for Sunday. Dave is so excited that is favorite team is playing in it!  GO NINERS!

This week I was also asked to make some cookies for a baby shower.  Here is what she requested…

I have another month that I’m going to be starting next week and I am so excited.

I worked on these cakes last fall and never posted them, thought his would be a good post to do so.  Our relief society president was having surgery and in lots of pain. I had been playing around with roses and thought I would add it on top. It was a simple and I was just playing around, but it was fun.

This was a cake I was asked to make for anniversary. I was SOOO nervous about it going well. I didn’t know what to charge, I was nervous about it slumping like my popcorn cake, and there were new techniques involved that I hadn’t done before. I used ribbon for the first time,  I tried all new recipes, including cream cheese frosting and homemade cakes I tried my hand at gum paste roses and was pleasantly surprised by their outcome (my friend’s husband thought I bought them), and made it a 3 tier square cake.  In the end my frosting was too warm or something and wasn’t going on over the fondant as I would have like so I had to make some royal icing to add the swirls. It didn’t go exactly as I would have wanted, but they were pleased  and overall it turned out okay.