Cake Decorating Class, Course #2

Lately, I’ve been keenly watching cake decorating programs, such as cake work and cake girls.  It is amazing to watch different designers use their techniques to create unbelievable cakes for engagement, weddings, and other occasions, by using the customer’s patterns.  Interestingly, the combination of butter cream frosting and royal icing works wonderfully together to create astonishing patterns, while preserving the fancy decorations. This really encourages me to continue learning all that I can about cake decorating, because eventually, I want to master the art of cake decorating and create my own unique designs. 

This is a sour cream cake which I made for my sister, Olive and my niece, Rebecca.  As you can see, I have tried showing off  some of my newly, acquired techniques, which I have learned in my Course #2, cake decorating class. A bit busy, but the cake is delicious, so that’s alright. I am taking the cake to Leesburg, VA where they live, hopefully, it arrives in one piece.  I know my sister will not eat the frosting, that will be too much sugar for her, plus she really doesn’t like butter cream frosting, and neither do I.  

Olive loves planting zinnias in the summer…. that’s my reason for attempting to create some  yellow zinnias or zinnias look a like, on the cake.  I also made a pink rose, because everyone loves roses.  The stars, shells, leaves and other designs are some of what I have been practicing in course #2.  I hope to further improve the techniques during my next three sessions. The art of cake decorating is a bit challenging but really a fun thing to do.  I look forward to becoming more creative with my future designs, especially when using royal icing, because I’ll be using royal icing most frequently when decorating caribbean fruit cakes.