A few months back I took a Wilton cake decorating class at my local Michael's craft store. They offer 3 different classes, so naturally I signed up for the first class (because I had no previous skill). I learned how to make icing, how to ice the cake, some different frosting tips. That class wasn't so exciting...but the second class was on gum paste and fondant. YEAH BABY! I had so much friggin' fun I started buying gum paste by the 55 gallon drum! Okay not really. It's more like I was buying it by the 16 ounce bag...but whatever. I'll take a hyperbolism over literalness any day of the week. By the way why do we say "any day of the week"? Why not "any month of the year" or "any year of the decade" or "any second of the minute"?
Here's the second cake Emma and I created. She did all the baking this time.
I made tons of the flowers. Again there were not really "tons" of flowers, I imagine I would then have to purchase gum paste in 55 gallon drums if that were the case.
We are still trying to figure out how to put ribbon on frosting without moisture seeping through and darkening the ribbon. We've tried a couple ways. If anyone has any suggestions, by all means share them with us as we are desperately desperate to know the ways of master bakers and decorators!
We are so proud of our baby! Isn't she gorgeous? I can't believe how cheap we did it for. But it is good practice. It's kinda like when my husband was out of work and someone let him work at their mechanic shop for an ridiculously small amount of money per week on the basis that he would be learning auto mechanics for free. The only way I could sanely get through him working for dirt wages was by calling it his "internship". Sheesh. I guess that's how I'm coping with this. We'll call it our internship. Our profits were exactly: Nothing. Oh well. It's beautiful though isn't it?
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