Its only taken me 10 years to truly work out what I'm good at and enjoy doing. This miracle came about when I signed up for a cake decorating and sugar craft course in September. Since then I've been hooked.
I've been baking since I was a little girl, one of my fondest memories was running my own cafe out of my Grandads garage when I was 3 to 4 years old. Only ever had one customer though. Back then my favourite things to make were flapjacks although most of the mixture ended up in mine and Beeky's bellies :-)
But now I'm making Victoria Sponge Cakes and covering them with fondant icing and then decorating that with roses and leaves that I made the week before. Like this one:
The first cake I decorated at my class was this one. Before the class we had to cover the entire cake in glace icing so it had time to set, ish and then during the class we learnt how to create templates out of grease proof paper. I, of course went for a flower picture and was very pleased with how it turned out.
These are some of the icing techniques we've been taught in the first lesson:
Recently my big sis Beeky got married and she asked me to make a 100 cupcakes for the big day, these cakes below were the testers to see if the coloured icing worked and to also see if she liked the taste of them, like a taste test. My victims for the taste test were of course Beeky and also her hens (not the animal variety) everyone said they tasted lovely so all I changed was the icing instead of having purple I went for chocolate and vanilla, and added a purple heart on top which was made out of marzipan. They also went down a storm at the wedding so I'm hoping more people will be asking me for cakes at their weddings or birthdays ;-)
And lastly here are a couple of picture of the vintage vogue competition dress I told you about a couple of months ago, its not very creative but I'm no Coco Chanel.
I'll try not to leave it so long next time, bye.
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