After a half term hiatus, I’m back in the classroom for the final day of my course. This is what we have been building towards since the very beginning – designing and decorating a cake! I’d been thinking about my design for a while now and I decided to settle on something simple but effective.… Continue reading Cake Decorating Course: Week 6 – The Final Masterpiece
This week we are doing unwired flowers (YAY), this is the day I have been waiting for! We choose colours for our paste and I very unimaginatively chose pink and white (at this point I am slightly worried that if I don’t choose a classic rose colour no one will know what it is, so… Continue reading Cake Decorating Course: Week 4
Week 3 is all about royal icing! My equipment finally turned up and I came fully prepared with the piping nozzles I needed! We learned how to make royal icing and how to make our own piping bags out of baking paper, which will be really handy considering how expensive they are to buy in… Continue reading Cake Decorating Course: Week 3
This week brings about my return to the classroom (after some difficulty recalling where the classroom was and wandering around quite lost in search for a recognisable face). So it turns out, I return to the classroom minus all the equipment I was supposed to purchase for the course. WHAT EQUIPMENT?! What equipment indeed. It… Continue reading Cake Decorating Course: Week 2
So I started a 6 week evening course doing cake decorating last night. After I got over the initial feelings of dread, panic, horror at being back at school, wondering if anyone was going to like me and worrying that I might not be cool, I got on quite nicely! It turned out I was… Continue reading Cake Decorating Course: Week 1
