6 Christmas cakes in 5 days

This blog is my holiday cake profile. Starting the Tuesday before Christmas, I had been busy baking (and most importantly decorating) cakes for friends just in time for the holidays. Since I took the cake decorating class, I have been crazy about baking/decorating cakes. It was a nice cake project for me to practice decorating skills. I had [...]

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Cake #4 from class: Basket weaving

This is the last cake from cake decorating class and we were learning basket weaving. The basket weaving is a easy and simple technique but time consuming. We were supposed to learn to tip other types of flowers before this session so we could fill in the “basket” with different flowers but schedule changed. Therefore [...]

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Cake #3 from class: Rose Cake

Cake #3 focused on rose decorating. Making roses is a quite challenging and needs lots of practice. We pretty much spent the whole 2 hours making roses. The instructor was very helpful. Even though my roses are always shorter and tilted to one side, each of them has a different look. I was joking that [...]

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