And I'm a graduate!

Today was the last class of Cake Decorating Basics.  I was the only one there today, besides the teacher.  It was crazy pouring rain and thundering, and there are flash flood warnings.  Blah.  But, I sucked it up and went, and while I got drenched even with an umbrella, I am now a course 1 grad! :)

As you know, my original cake for today did not turn out :(  Buuuu!  But I made a new one, of course, using the tweaked marble cake mix recipe from pinterest.  I did it in the zebra pattern again, and this one turned out .  The filling is raspberry cream cheese butter cream with fresh blueberries - soooo good! 

For class today, we had to already have our cake frosted.  I tinted mine a light minty green and frosted away.  As per usual I over did it on trying to smooth out my frosting and I messed it up a bit, but only a little.  I'm getting a bit better!  And while it took my 45 minutes to frost my first cake, this one only took me about 20-25 minutes!  We also had to come with lots of frosting already colored.  I chose dark green for my lettering, purple and pink for my flowers, and green and pink for my borders. 

The making of the roses took quite a bit of time.  I suppose it was a good thing I was the only student there tonight because I got lots of help from the teacher with those little buggers!  I think I finally got it down pretty well - but I will have to keep practicing!!

I am bummed that I won't be able to take course 2 until September unless I try to take it at Joann's (which isn't a problem, I just don't know their schedule!)  My goal is to take all 4 courses before going back to Peru. :)

cake re-do cooling

Filled! 

Crumb coated

Frosted and written on!

Side

Finished product!

My certificate! :)