its a cupcake bouquet!

my piping skills have definitely improved and i was able to work with modeling chocolate for the first time :) i was very happy with how my bouquet turned out in the end, even if one cupcake kept falling off and the frosting completely slipped off another haha it must have been all that humidity...i can't wait to make more of these very soon!!! xo

coming up...

no new baked goods to report, i am saving all of my baking energy and ideas for my next bonnie gordon class on May 1st, cupcake bouquets! i will learn piping techniques to make frosting look like real flowers, i can hardly wait! xo

baking & butter cream class

i am finally posting about my amazing weekend :) 

i had an amazing time at my baking and butter cream class at bonnie gordon. it is really nice to be supervised by a le cordon bleu trained pâtissier and told what you do wrong. i learned a lot about ingredient combination techniques that i was unaware of and my cake masking skills have definitely improved. the first picture is the final product of my whole day's work on saturday, a vanilla cake with a layer of mango swiss meringue butter cream and frosted in vanilla swiss meringue butter cream.

now that i had such a great time at bonnie gordon i can hardly wait to take another class but i know i need to pace myself. which class should i take next: preserves and fillings for cakes or cupcake bouquets??? decisions decisions!

this second picture is of my cake in action on saturday night alongside a fabulous tarte tatin, yum! 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