Although I was signed up for a CAKE decorating class it never occurred to me that I would have to take an actual cake to class with me each time. Again- welcome to the dreamworld I live in. I thought we would be decorating on those styrofoam "cakes" that they use on Ace of Cakes/Cake Boss/Every other cake show on TV.
As I was mixing my cake at 10 o'clock Monday night I strongly considered showing up with a styrofoam cake so I could head to bed. I decided to play by the rules and promised myself I would get an earlier start next time. (I'll let you know how that goes).
After wheeling my luggage cart with my cake supplies, cake carrier, and cake tackle box into the classroom I realized that I forgot to bring a cardboard base for my cake. No fear, the class is held in Hobby Lobby so I ran to Wilton Wonderland to pick up the rest of my supplies.
Joy, our instructor, told us to get our stencil of choice out so that we could practice doing gel transfers. I loved this technique! We were able to choose from the following stencils: fish (not thanks), cupcake (my personal fave), or a hamburger (chris' vote). I decided that since Chris was going to be doing most of the cake consumption I would surprise him with a hamburger. The surprise part didn't really work though because I had to mix all of my icing colors at home and it was pretty obvious I wasn't making a brown, red, and green cupcake.
Back to the gel transfers…you use piping gel trace your design on parchment paper and then you flip it over and smooth the gel onto the cake. It's pretty cool. It's a good way to ensure that you don't have a hamburger that looks half eaten or falling apart on your cake.
First we torted our cake, iced a dam, and filled the dam. English term for people that aren't fluent in cake speak: we cut our cakes in half, squirted some icing around the edges so our filling of choice didn't fall off the edge and then filled up the center. I picked milk chocolate pudding. Yum.
I'm sure you're wondering why I have so many brown dots on my icing and why the board looks wet around the cake. Well I made my icing wrong. You make it with 1 cup vegetable shortening and 1lb. powered sugar and like the goof I am I measured 16 fluid oz with my fluid measuring cup. Well that was only HALF of the sugar I needed to. I had vanilla flavored vegetable shortening. YUCK! Oh well- I worked with it.
After we iced our cakes it was time to do the gel transfer. You outline the stencil on parchment paper with piping gel and then slap the parchment paper on your cake.
After you have your gel transfer on your cake you can start with the middle color (brown hamburger patty) and go out from there.
I think I did a pretty decent job for my first try, except for the fact that it was pretty inedible.
1 comments:
Sorry that didn't work out for ya!! It was really cute but must have been really bad since I was at your house a week later and Chris still hadn't eaten it!!!Ha ha ha. I love ya, Mom
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