All in all, I'm glad we signed up for the Wilton cake decorating class at Hobby Lobby, but honestly I am very glad we are done! The class itself was fun, but the preparation and clean up was exhausting!!!!
The class required that you prepare and fill bags with icing beforehand. Please note my disaster of a kitchen as I am making several different colors of icing! They gave us a recipe for buttercream, but it really grossed me out because it contained shortening, not butter. EWWWW. We would work hard on our cupcakes and such and then I didn't even want to eat them. So, I googled "buttercream frosting" and found an amazing recipe---honestly, it tastes like fluffy vanilla ice cream. For our final class I prepared bags with that stuff and was so excited to have something I would actually want to eat. Note: the only issue was that because it had butter I had to keep it cold, and butter gets pretty solid when cold. We had to knead the bags a lot before we could use it, but it was SO worth it.
On our final night we learned how to make roses, which were so much easier than I ever expected. Of course, I don't have a picture of any of them. We also used all the skills we learned in prior classes to make our final cake. Mine is the purple one and Kendra's is the green. Our teacher made the rose on Kendra's cake as a demo and was kind enough to let her have it!
Kendra made the shaggy mum flower and I made the pom pom flower for mine. Notice the theme--the cakes were going to be eaten the next day at school--on the LAST day of school. The teachers loved them! :-)
We both received certificates of completion for the class--a highlight for Kendra!
I am glad we did it, but please remind me NOT to take a "fun" class in May!!!! End of the school year is just too busy!
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