I graduated - again!

Last night I graduated from cake decorating 1 class. Mom made the cake for me since I had to go the the grocery store at lunch and I had to put the icing on it when I got home. Of course, we decided at the last minute to BBQ burgers and dogs on the grill so this meant that I was a tad rushed to say the least. But, the meal was great and class was fun.

Back to class...last week she told us to bring green icing and a colored icing for the roses and the 13 X 9 cake. She didn't say anything about white icing, so I wasn't prepared. But, we had to make 7 roses for our cake. While waiting for the other ladies to get done we were asked to make some for another lady who was having difficulity with her icing. So, I made about 13 roses - and got pretty good at it before class was complete. Then we made our ivy, leaves, and the "bed" for the roses. Once that was done we placed our roses. I broke the rules because you are suppose to have an odd number of roses on your entire cake, but I didn't like the look with 7, so I added one more and really liked it even thought the teacher wasn't happy with it. I argued with her that I had an odd number - 5 on one corner and 3 on the other - but she didn't buy that! I still graduated. We were suppose to have a cake that you could sell at Wal-Mart - what do you think?? Oh, and by the way - it does say "Get Lost" on it. We could write whatever we wanted and the teacher was driving me crazy about my boarder - so I wrote the first thing that came to mind. I told her that I did it for a guy at work, and she bought it!!

Now, the teacher wants me to take the foundant class which starts on Wednesday night but I have not decided if I want to do that. Another 4 weeks, even though would love to learn how to use this - I love cakes that are decorated with it.