A Blue E it was...

This weekend was....interesting (saying this as I point my finger around in a circle like Larry David). Very interesting! It was the first time I ever decorated a cake! It was so exciting. My sister and I headed down to a local bakery to take a class. She has decorated before with my mother and I never ever had done this. We got there a little early and were able to sample the little tasty treats they had in their testing bins. Yummy! A great sugary treat to start the morning off with!

Then we headed into the back of the bakery to man our decorating stations. So, there were eight people total in the class. Two other pairs of girls and then a married couple. Now, the stations were set up were three and three down two tables and then two together. The other pairs got right together and then there were two spots on different tables left. Oh no they didn't! They meant for my sister and I to split. I don't think so! So, we asked the married couple to scoot down. No biggie, but they were acted as if...sooo then it was time to begin the decorating.

The chef/owner of the bakery started off by going over their buttercream recipe. How nice right? However, I decided it was too hard to work with...got warm way too fast. But, we have the recipe if needed. Then we started creating dots! Dots, dots, dots! We used the #4 tip to create dots, lines, letters and things. It was very fun! I was getting used to using the decorating bag so one it was to the next tip. It created rosettes. Very nice and fancy! We were then ready to move on to the flower tip. It started out with pansies and moved on to roses. These were tough. As you will see in the pictures below there are no flowers as I was not ready to put them on a cake just yet.

After lots of practice and listening to how you create different aspects of the designs it was time to ice our cakes! YAY! So we took the buttercream frosting we had been working with all day on our cake. As you can imagine it was very warm to then start the design part...but we trucked on. We covered our cakes with the frosting and then we were left to design our cake. I decided to use just the blue frosting that was given to us our my house is two-third boys. It was then time to figure out just what was going on the cake. It was then that I decided to chose and E. I had made a nicee E while we were practicing, better than the one that ended up on the cake I must say. So, I went from there. Es then were around the cake with dots all over.

I think I did an okay job on the first cake ever that I decorated. But you can be the judge...but please don't tell me it's terrible.