Cake Decorating Part 2

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I had my second cake decorating class on Thursday night and had a blast! We brought a cake and the icing already made. Thank goodness for my cake caddy, otherwise it would have been a real pain trying to haul it there and back!

In this class we learned and practiced:

• how to do circles (haha, yes, there's a trick to doing circles), and how to drag the circles to make designs such as hearts or in this case, the cupcake bottom on my design.
• how to cut a cake in half perfectly (use a cake leveler, which I now bought)
• how to ice the middle of a cake
• how to ice the top and sides of the cake and smooth out the design
• how to transfer a design with icing gel. You trace the design on parchment paper with the gel in a piping bag and the pattern underneath!

I really enjoyed icing and decorating the cake in this class but I felt really really rushed. Like I didn't feel I had enough time to smooth out my icing properly, and then it has to set for 15 minutes (which it didn't have enough time to do), and then I had extra work to try and smooth it and I was rushing so I kept jamming the spatula into the edges, making it look really messy. I'm 75% happy with the result, but just know I could've done so much better if time would have permitted!!

You can see where I gouged out the edge all along here! It was smooth at one point. Also, the white beads around the bottom I piped on in the last 45 seconds of class! So they're not even but I think the cake looked a lot better with a little bit more detail!

Updated Cost List:

Cake Leveler ($5.49 reg price) $4.40

Piping gel ($5.99 reg price) $3.59

Total = $74.05