Tonight's class

I wont be posting tonight too much to do.  Sorry, I will put up pictures of the cookies when I am done tomorrow and the surprise for my friend I can't post til Sunday since she might peek :).

Dream

I had a wonderful dream last night, it was me and my own bakery :).  I wonder if it was because in class on Wednesday we talked about how the teacher makes cakes out of her home and pricing.  So I did some research on pricing and baking out of the home.  I found out there are many ways to figure out the prices, and that to bake out of the home I have to have no pets, which in my family we have lots, so I have to look into that more.  It doesn't matter at the present moment, since I don't have orders knocking at my door, other than family.  I have a long way before I can start a bakery, I need to find recipes for cakes that I like (right now I am basically using boxed cake mix) and work on my fondant and icing skills but that is why friends and family are around.  This summer is going to be lots of work trying to figure out this questions and recipes while working and going to college in Oneonta.  When I get better and more confident and find out more about baking out of the home I want to make a website and spread the word by mouth to get some orders in.  Next year I will be back on campus for a semester so I could do it out of that kitchen since no pets are allowed but have to check if that is allowed.

Easter

For Easter I am going to my friend's house, this year I am making some Easter sugar cookies, and a surprise.  Can not say since I know she reads this blog :), if the attempt of this surprise is to my liking I will post it before Easter.  I planned for next week, my sister's baby shower cake, and my little sister's birthday cake (which is in July) and a cake I am making for my Marine seminar class.  I am very thorough when I am asked to make baked goods are it is for a group of people.  Why can't I be like this when it comes to school work.  With all of these cakes I am making in the future, none of them include flowers, so I can not try the flowers that I am making in my class.  Tomorrow there are no classes so I am going to redo my bow, since it collapsed.  This time I am going to use color and a decorative edge, I just don't know what color yet.  This weekend I am going shopping to get what I need for next week's class.  I talked with my teacher about buttercream icing since I cannot seem to make it the right consistency.   She gave me a recipe and talked about what to use and not to use.  So I am going to pick some of the materials up and make it on Saturday.  So if the icing doesn't work out I can go on Sunday to pick up a store brand type to crumb coat my cake for Wednesday.  In the long haul the homemade icing is supposed to be cheaper since the recipe makes about 2 pounds at a time.

Cake class 2

Flowers and more Flowers.  This week we did roses, calli lily, carnation, and mums.  Carnations are hard to make.  I couldn't find certain items when I went shopping and to find out they were what I needed this week.  I am glad that the teacher is very nice also the other students are really nice too.  Here are the flowers, if you want I will post how to make them but its too much to do every flower, and I do not have step by step pictures to add.  Maybe when I make them for the final cake I will post them.
The three are roses they didn't really dry so the last few petals are flimsy

 The next three pink flowers are called mums

 Caly lilies

 Carnations, hard to photograph I guess due to it being white.  Don't mind the tissues it is holding the petals in place until the fondant dries

studying...not!

Today I should be studying for a physics exam but I am relaxing which I am told is something I need to do more often.  I am looking at the classes ahead for the cake decorating class and I am so excited.  The ribbon I made last night collapsed due to I made the loops to thick.  Before week 5 I am going to remake the bow.  This time I am going to make it colored and thinner with a fancy border.  I just dont know what color and when I am going to make it.  Next week we will finish the flowers.  The week after we will learn how to cover a square cake, which I have done but not at all nicely.  So that will be good to help me understand what I am doing wrong.  I am going to go study I guess.

Cake decorating class :)

Today was the first day of the fondant class that I got for xmas as a present.  Tonight we learned how to make a bow, and the bases for three flowers, carnation, rose, and mums.  I also learned that when making bows and flowers its best to mix half and half of fondant with gum paste since the gum paste will help it hardened a little more.  The cone shaped balls on the speg. is for the rose flowers and the balls are for the mums the cone shape frilly thing is for the carnations.  I am making three of each of the flowers next week. The bow took about 15 loops once started just filling the holes, to make it look right.  The bow is for week three to place on top of the cake.  I love this class, it helps refine my talent.  I started cake decorating out of a book and making mistakes now I can learn before I make the mistakes.  I cant wait til next week. :)