mjsdailyhappenins': Tall Cakes.......

Sunday, September 19, 2010

Tall Cakes.......

.....So here I am, taking another cake class, as if once a week wasn't enough, my mom and I decided that it would be fun to take this "stacking, tall cake" class today, it was a 3 hour class in which we constructed, learned the techniques of stacking a cake and then decorated it...... we had a great time... My only regret is that I didn't prepare before hand, or come up with my design before hand.... Krista my friend who I met 3 monhs ago in the fondant class also took this one, she came in prepared to make a witch's hat... DAMN! i thought why didn't I think of somethig cool like her?? so off I went to think of something to make.... while she costructed this.....

......I decided to make a basket with a pumpkin in the middle and flowers coming out of the top, I had help coming up with my design!! ;) If I were to make it again I would definitly finish off the basket, on the top with some more basketweave.... the white looks a little weird, and it doesn't really looked finished... and then my sister suggested that If I had used a bundt cake pan for the middle cake, then we would be able to better tell that it was a pumpkin.... she was right... despite all of that though... i really liked what the "arrangement" turned out to look like, it was bright, colorful and fallish, which is what I was going for!! :)

This lady used pillars for her cake.... and her lace design looked cool too!! :)

Irene's cake was awesome as well.... I need to figure out how to get my cakes to bake tall.... hmmmmm... she made her calla lilies out of fondant and then made up a flower, swirl thing to go around as a border on her cake... and her white dots added a little 3D look to it too! lovely!

Then there was Krista the overachievers, witch's hat.... and I only say that because I may be slightly jealous that I didn't think of something cool like her.... now if only I could find a good reason to make this cake??? ;) I LOVED it.... I loved the fact that she even thought as far as making a spider for the hat, and a buckle.... if only I was that creative.... or maybe I should say if only I had planned ahead!! :)

and my mom made a basket in the middle of her cake.... I liked hers too!! it really did come together for her... and she was so excited that she remembered how to do some of this stuff!