cake #2- lattice and rosettes cake

hello so I made my second cake ever today and I think it came out really nicely! this combined techniques I learned in the 2nd and 3rd lessons so it was fun to change it up a little bit!

first i stacked two heart shaped cakes on top of each other and attached them with a layer of buttercream

I accidentally iced the cake in medium consistency buttercream instead of thin consistency, so it looked a little less finished.

This is what it looked like after going over it again with a thin consistency layer (much less lumpy and more smooth I think?)

First I did the lattice work in white buttercream (had to thin it out a little so it wouldn't break as I was making the lines.) then I piped rosettes all around the border to cover up the edges of the lattice. (My brother Tim who was visiting overnight kept saying, "don't mess up don't mess up!" and i threatened to squeeze frosting into his hair)

Tim actually helped me figure out how to pipe the green leave. I wasn't taught them in the class but wanted to do them anyway and he figured out how to hold the tip so that they came out looking like leaves. (good job Timmy!)

Then I added polka dots (beads) to the top and sides of the cake!

Lastly, I added a shell border to the bottom of the cake! :)

Me with my finished cake!! :)

I'm planning on making the last cake (a chocolate cake) tomorrow so there will probably be another new post in the next two days :) <333

cake decorating-round tips

Hello! I haven't decorated in a week or so because I've been busy with Antonia but I did some practicing today and I'm actually quite pleased with how everything came out!

Today I learned different types of drop strings and also how to pipe print and cursive letters. This involves adding some corn syrup to the frosting in order to make it more elastic so it doesn't break when I try to pipe lines.

This is actually a lattice design that I did yesterday, it needs some work but I think it's pretty!

normal drop string

double and triple drop strings

this is an example of overlapping drop strings. the first one I tried came out a little too shallow so I like the second one better.

This is actually a lot easier than it looks, I was really intimidated by piping letters but I'm actually pretty good at it!

Look it's so pretty and it looks like my handwriting yay!

Kelena is what happens when you smoosh the names of my favorite characters on the vampire diaries (katherine and elena), and Antonia is my friend from Canada who stayed with me over the weekend! look how pretty her name is in frosting!!

 Tomorrow or in the next day or so, I will be decorating another cake (heart shaped this time) so be on the lookout for that! it's going to be pink and pretty and lovely and incorporate techniques from everything I've learned so far, so I'm excited!

world of swirls cake (cake #1)

So I decorated my first cake today, it was scary but it was a wonderful process and I really enjoyed it wow. 

I'm gonna post some pictures and let you see how it was made!

first I iced the cake in green frosting, then used a comb tool to make a pretty design around the entire cake(it didn't come out as pretty as I would have liked but it's my first time so I'll allow some imperfections)

Next, I piped a border of pink stars around the bottom of the cake. I had previously used much smaller tips to practice stars, so this was a bit of an adjustment.

After the stars, I piped some rosettes around the middle of the cake in white. I really like the rosette technique for some reason and it comes pretty easily to me.

Last, I made two layers of large pink rosettes on the top of the cake. I used a ton more frosting than I thought I would with this part, but I love frosting the most so I'm not unhappy about it :P

Here is the finished product!!!

Hello here I am with my very first decorated cake! :D :D

The next lesson I will learn how to use all the different round tips and techniques that go along with that including dots, lattice work and writing on a cake. (I'm nervous about the writing part but practice makes perfect, right?)

cake decorating day 1 and 2

I've started to learn how to decorate cakes and this is what I've done so far.

stars

 

rosettes

these are shells, reverse shells and fleur de lis. these need some work :P

 

the first rope got kind of askew but the second one looks better!

colonial scroll

reverse colonial scroll!

Tomorrow I get to decorate an actual cake so that will be really fun, I can't wait!!

Elena Gilbert(5x07) inspired cookies

This weekend I was really inspired by Elena's dress in episode 5x07 of TVD, so I decided to make some cookies based on that dress. 

Here are some pictures of the dress that Elena wore in 5x07!

I had forgotten how much work it was to prep(making the dough, making the icing, cutting out the cookies, baking the cookies, coloring the icing) but after about 2 hours everything was all set to start decorating.

I ended up making too much of the blue flooding but that's okay because I can always use it for something else later.

I made the bows first, outlining and then flooding them in and then the cupcakes and then the dresses.

  I was really happy with how everything came out, especially the dresses because it was my first time using that cookie shape! 

And you can see the best cookies here. I am really so in love with this set of cookies. It was my first time making a themed batch of cookies and I couldn't be more happy with the way it turned out. :D