And it begins again...but better...

It begins again, but it has been better thus far. Sister and I have started to take another cake decorating class, it started last week, and it is focusing on fondant and tiered cakes. This is excellent considering in less than 6 months I must make a wedding cake. It was our first time working with fondant and with gum paste and I must say, it is very easy and I love it! It makes the cake look so nice. What I will say is that the class runs late which is not good for this mommy! Why? Well, the class in about 35 minutes from my house and it is from 7-9pm. I do not get home till almost 10pm because the class has gone almost 30 minutes over for the first two weeks. Another reason why this is not good is because my little boy does not want to take a bottle. Grrr...so when I get home he is still up and waiting for me to feed him. The class must end on time soon! Granted there are only two more weeks and then we start another one in June!

So, first lets talk about how the class began..It was a $40 class for 4 weeks..great price RIGHT!! Well, little did we know that we would have to buy everything for the class. The classes I have taken before have been more expensive but they provided everything we needed. This one did not! So my mother and sister went to the store and purchased everything we needed. Then we had to bring some Royal Icing. Now, if anyone has ever worked with Royal Icing you know that it is stiffer than buttercream and that it gets hard quickly (that's what she said...sorry had to do it). So I had my sister make us a double batch while I fed the little boy before we ventured down Route 3 to the class. I said, it should be so that when you stop the mixer it should not move. It did not move when she stopped it so it was done. Off to class we went....

We get to class and take out our icing, the first time I am looking at it. HAHAH It was a brick. I tried to mix it but it would not even do that. Silly sister. She forgot to double the water amount for the icing, but we did not tell the teacher that. The teacher tried to soften it up for us and it worked, but then she came over and said oh...I should have added more water in it. Why, well because when sister and I were trying to pipe our bags were splitting because we were squeezing so hard. I could not even do most of it because my arms were not strong enough. It was a riot! She told us not to bring back that brick of icing. It was a hoot!!

Then comes the cake baking...first let me say that we never have used a square pan before and it does change how you bake it. But we did not know this and the cake cooked for an extra 30 minutes and then we had to take some of the top off for the middle to cook. AHH...however, the cake was not dry. I had some last night! YUMMY.

Then, it continues...I had to go buy more fondant for use to cover the cake. HA..So on three hours of sleep in almost 48 hours I decided it was good to head out to try to do this. I head over to AC Moore and buy two boxes of fondant each 1 lb 8 oz. I am driving home and think wait, we need 24 oz. I am going to have to go back tomorrow and get more are you serious! I get home, open the book and sure enough we needed 24 oz each. I keep going back and forth from the book to the box and say, I only bought an 8oz box. I did this, no lie, for about 5 minutes, until I realized that 1 lb 8 oz was 24 oz! LACK OF SLEEP! I need more of it still. Anyways..we had enough and decorated a cake each. I have pics of mine but none of sister's....enjoy...and some gum paste roses!