Ace of Cake 101

Nana and Grampy signed me up for a cake decorating class as part of my birthday present this year. I had to wait until the semester was over to sign up because there is no way I could have focused on polynomials when I had more important things like how I would decorate my next cake to be worrying about…

I'm not going to lie the first class was a little lame. Our instructor should be employed by the Home Shopping Network the way she was trying to sell us all of the Wilton products. She was running out of adverbs towards the end of the class for all of the "awesome cake pans", "super spatulas", and "best in the industry cake belts". (more on the cake belts in a later post) Anyway- you get the idea. 

For the first class we had to bring 6 flat cookies. I cheated and bought the cookies in a roll and baked them at the last minute the night before. 

After an hour and a half of the Wilton Product Preview we were told to get out our icing and tip#12 so we could learn how to make stars/basic flowers. 

Here is my first attempt:

I had my first rodeo with this technique while I was decorating Jenny's birthday cake which I later dumped into the floor board of my car. That is another story for another day, but here is a little example of how my day went.

Let's move on- every time I think about day I get a little sad.

Anyway- at the end of the class I was excited to get out of the HSN wormhole that I had been living in for the last two hours of my life and was looking forward to class #2. Then we were given the list of items that we needed to bring to our second class. I was a little overwhelmed to say the least but I decided there would be a hamburger in my future. You'll see what I mean. 

Don't get me wrong Nana/Grampy- it was actually a lot of fun. I was just imagining Duff from Ace of Cakes to be leading our class and that we would be building Princess Castles on our first run. Obviously I was wrong. 

We only have 4 people in our class which is pretty cool. I can't imagine sharing my table with anyone.

Well stay tuned for more Ace of Cakes 101...