Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Cake Decorating - A Presidential cake

This Monday, we worked on a "Presidential Cake" in cake decorating class. Meeper and I weren't too thrilled to use black icing on our cakes...but I didn't have to worry, my icing never turned black. (-;
This is our teacher's demonstration cake....

That's George Washington in the middle in case you were wondering....
Here is Meeper with another case of the giggles...

And here are our finished cakes...mine on the left, Meepers on the right. I didn't use enough dye in my icing to get the black, and my George Washington looks...well I am not exactly sure what he looks like, but not so much like George.

Its all good, I am even lucky that I had a cake. I had frozen my first cake days before cake class and when I pulled it out of the freezer, somebody had layed something heavy on top of it and crunched down the middle.

So I baked yet another cake, got the icing on it, and put it in my cake container. Then hours later, my ever so lovely 2 year old daughter came cheerfully and happily skipping in my living room with my cake container just a swinging away. Luckily the cake was unharmed!

Next week is the "doll" cake...something I had attempted before with my kitchen aid bowl so I am really happy to try again, especially since I think I am going to do a princess cake for my daughter's birthday!

Can't wait for another fun night of cake decorating!

5 comments:

Denise @ Sunflowers, Chocolate and Little Boys said...

Very nice George......I just want to know if they are homemade cakes or from a box??

Samkay said...

Oh no!! That stinks that the first cake got crushed in the middle! You didn't throw it out tho....did you?? lol if you didn't, send pieces of it with Collin tomorrow....I want some! lol :) I think your cake looks awesome by the way :) lol

Jillene said...

I'm thinking that your cake looks pretty darn good!! If I would have made it--oh--let's not even go there!! Cake decorating is NOT my forte!! I tried once to make a Zoe (from Sesame Street) cake H and my husband ended up doing it because I suck so much!! (0:

Kristen said...

It looks really good, I used to teach cake decorating and if you start with chocolate frosting it is easier to get it to go black.

momma said...

good job decorating!