Iced fruit cake with floral spray
Sponge filled with jam and buttercream and decorated with buttercream and coconut
Close up of buttercream frosting
My buttercream piping effort was not the greatest because I didn't want to fuss around with umpteen dozen colours of icing or go for an elaborate but ugly design. However, despite its obvious flaws, I like its simplicity, and now that I have learnt the techniques, I can practice and improve in my own time.
I was disappointed because I went to a restaurant straight after class with my completed cakes, and the staff knocked over the buttercream iced cake twice, accounting for the smooshed piping around the edges in two places. Oh well - it still tasted the same, and I inflicted it on my work colleagues the next day.
There is one week of class left, where I believe that we are going to learn how to decorate a cake using chocolate and jelly. I am looking forward to it!
20 comments:
Your cakes look great!! Your roses are beautiful!
That white cake is stunning. And squished or not, I'm sure the buttercream cake was dead tasty. :)
Oh, wow! I am soooo jealous! What fun you must be having. I am very impressed with your results. The sugar flowers look gorgeous! And your piping skills are great. I am a terrible piper!
Wow they look both so amazing. You really seem a professionist darling.
I'd love to do a class like this but in florence the idea of cake is for now still restricted to millefoglie and tiramisù :-(..I'm so bored of that stuff even if they are so tasty..
Great indeed!
Silvia
ok...i wont be able to make those in a million years...wow!
btw,
You're invited to my chinese take-out party, check out the details in my blogpost:
http://mochachocolatarita.blogspot.com/2008/05/celebrating-my-88th-post-chinese-take.html
Hope you'll play along :)
Looking forward to your take on chinese take-out ^_^
Wow, they're so beautiful! I especially love the first one; I'd buy that in a shop!
Your cakes are so pretty! You're really talented!
Ah cakelaw (god what is your real name? lol) It's just stunning! Great work indeed and how I would love to take a baking class myself one day. Damn it, I'm going to request it as a bday gift! ;)
How cool are you!!! Psychgrad and I are starting a course next week - we'll be posting our outcomes as well - we should follow each other's progress. You're doing a great job!!!
So pretty!
WOW! That floral spray is spectacular and the icing so elegant :). You're becoming a deco-icing-artist.
...and it shows...they are look wonderful...like a display piece.
perfect sweets!!!!!!!
Gorgeous!
Breathtakingly beautiful flowers. Mx
When are you gonna be open for business? These look marvelous! There is a local cake decorating class near me and now I'm inspired to take it!
Hi to all
Thank you so much for your kind words of encouragement - I have been blown away by them.
Cakelaw xx
How fun! I wish I could find a cake decorating class here. I sure know I need it!
Wow, did you make all that. They are beautiful. I wish I could have a class like that.
I adore your sugar flowers! They are gorgeous. I wish I could take a class like that! Congrats on such a great job!!!
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