My last cake class took place our first full day with baby David. The two older boys stayed home with Daddy, but David tagged along to the class. I didn't even make the cake or the frosting for this class. My mom was sweet enough to offer to do the baking, and I let her since we had just added a baby in our home. Both my mom and I agree the last class was pointless. The only items taught were the basket weave (which I had done impromptu once before) and the reverse shell border. The rest of the time was set aside for actual cake decorating. My mom and I decided we will not be continuing the fondant and gum paste classes...partly because we did not enjoy our introduction to that media, but mostly because we would both rather have the entire cake edible as opposed to having to pull the decorations off.
My husband had to go into work extremely early last weekend to upgrade the firewall. His coworkers were requesting a cake since I did one following the last firewall episode, and since I enjoy spoiling my husband, I put together a cake using his artistic rendering. Unfortunately, my picture is not the greatest...I couldn't get my camera to be agreeable...next time I should do a manual picture instead, but I didn't think of it. I made a from scratch strawberry cake with a homemade custard filling. To the custard I tossed in small chopped strawberries to add some texture to the cake as well as flavor. The frosting is a cream cheese frosting. Basically the old component is the blue guy who is larger but struggling to lift small dumbbells. The new component is smaller, but he can lift heavier dumbbells...showing his superiority off. Honestly the cake was more white than it appears above. I didn't get to taste the cake myself, but my husband says it was really good.
By the way, as a side note, I was asked to make an add on wedding cake. They had ordered a professional one but needed a smaller cake to serve because they didn't think they would have enough. I was honored to be asked; however, I turned down the request for a few reasons. 1) Life is really busy/crazy/busy/crazy with three little kids, and I am still adjusting. 2) I would want someone's wedding cake (even if it was just the smaller serving one) to be perfect, and I didn't have the ability to dedicate that much time (see #1 above). 3) I am not good at frosting flowers yet, and I would think the best decoration for a wedding cake would be flowers. 4) I don't need all that added stress in my life at the moment (see #1, 2 and 3 above). However, like I did say, I was honored to be asked.
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