Class 1 we decorated cookies. I don't think I took pictures of what I did. But in class 2 we decorated cupcakes. Here are mine. Not my best work, but it's a start.
The top two show drop flowers, which are very easy and look nice. The middle left has a pom pom flower, middle right more drop flowers on a traditional cupcake piping base. Bottom left has a very wilted looking shaggy mum, and bottom right...I don't know what you call that other than trying to use up some icing.My main modus operondi is to see what I can create successfully without much practice, to add that to my bag of tricks that I know will work. Drop flowers quickly went in this category. They are hard to mess up, and they usually look pretty nice. So naturally, these were a top choice when I was tasked with making a birthday cake for my friend Heather. I got to try out a carrot cake, which I was planning to make for Emeline's birthday, and it's Heather's favorite. Here's what I came up with.
This was before I worked very hard to get a smooth base layer of icing. It's actually quite hard to do, but I've gotten better at it. This has a base of cream cheese, with buttercream flowers and leaves. I used the Witon bake even strips, which help you to get a flat cake without the normal dome you have to trim off (not that I did that before taking this class, even though I knew you should ;) ). Anyway, apparently carrot cake is not like your standard cake, so the strips accentuated the cake's tendency to fall. So I had to compensate with a big mound of drop flowers. I think it worked ok. The cake tasted great, was a hit, and not bad for my first real cake after some classes.
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