Cake - Week 5

This week I decided to be a bit ambitious with my cake since it was my last class. I designed a vineyard as an ode to my in-laws who live close to the Napa Valley.The house is made of chocolate cake. It was very hard to shape, but it was worth it. I tried to create a vine going up the side of the house with some flowers on the side. That did not come out exactly the way I envisioned it, but it looks ok.There is a little mount that come up from the cake with these little green bursts that are meant to look like a row of planted goodies (maybe cabbages).
Here is the aerial view. You can see the pond that is in there.
I put a gold fish in the pond. Thankfully Trevan has this rake that he got at the Pastor/Teacher Convention this weekend. It was a great prop to add to the cake.
So it comes to an end. My class was a lot of fun and I do not regret the many hours I have spent baking cakes and making icing. If you ever get a chance to take a class you should do it. In addition to learning great techniques for decorating your cakes, you also get great ideas from your classmates.

Cake - Week 4

Here is last weeks cake. Trevan and I were gone all weekend to the Potomac Conference Pastor-Teacher Convention and I totally forgot to post pictures.

This cake is meant to be a bit of a painting. Flower blossoms coming out of a basket like in some artsy paintings. I have a very ambitious design for my last cake. Tomorrow will be my last cake and I am very happy and sad to come to the end of this journey.

Tomorrow is also my birthday, so I get to make a cake for myself!

Cake - Week 3

This is my cake this week. It is much smaller and I put a lot of flowers on the top. I was just trying to practice my roses. Next week I will try to decorate it with a bit more purpose.

The actual cake is a butter pecan cake with chocolate syrup and walnuts middle.

I especially like the border with the little dots on the top of the starts.

Cake - Week 2

Here is my cake from this week. We are learning to make roses, and since mine are far from perfect, I decided to play with color to make them more interesting. It is a double layer chocolate cake with strawberry jam filling.

Cake - Week 1

The new adventure in my life is cake decorating. That's right, I started a class last week and this is my first cake. Not terribly impressive, but let's hope that it gets better in the weeks to come.