practice makes perfect

in preparation for lindsay's arrival on sunday i made two mini cakes for us to fondant, using the techniques i learned in my course yesterday. this picture is one of them following the 'crumb coat' step, before the final mask. this time i made two-layer vanilla mini cakes with chocolate swiss meringue butter cream filling and vanilla frosting.

once she arrived we started playing with fondant! see below...

it turns out that covering such small round cakes with fondant is more difficult than i thought it would be :) good thing i had a patient instructor! eventually the cakes looked like this...

and then i was let loose on her butterfly shape cutters!!! it was a bit messy...but so fun! thanks for all the tips and tricks bevi :) xo

big baking weekend!

this weekend i have a couple fantastic baking events happening! the first, tomorrow, is my class at bonnie gordon on baking and buttercream http://www.bonniegordoncakes.com/ which i am super excited for! i plan on taking pictures all day, so hopefully they will let me, and then posting all about it afterwards. on sunday one of my best ladies is coming over to teach me fondant techniques :) this will also probably result in many pictures and hopefully some little works of art. watch this space...
xo