Cakes Cakes Cakes

I have never been a cake decorator.  I'm a baker through and through.  When I was in school I always got sooo nervous when decorating cakes. I don't know why, but I just did.  Once I finished school I knew I wanted nothing to do with that side of the business.  I could bake the cakes, but decorating...nope.

Since school I have tried dabbling in cake decorating, but would always just get so frustrated.  Last year I made my brother's wedding cake.  It was a cupcake wedding cake.  I loved it.

  It peeked my interest and I thought "you know what, I could do this".  I would do something here and there, but nothing too big.  When we moved to Rigby I met a friend who also went to culinary school and she now does cake decorating.  She has such a talent for it too! We always talked about how we should do something together cause she wants to improve her baking and I want to improve decorating.  So we could just help each other out. We finally put ourselves out there and started making cakes for some friends.  Our first was a hydrangea cake. I don't have a picture of it ,but it turned out so good. Our second was a birthday cake for a co-worker's daughter.  He wanted it to have the New England Patriots symbol on it.  So we put our heads together and came up with this:

It was the first time I worked with fondant in a long time.  Once again I got nervous, but it was so much fun working with Delight.  She made the fondant while I stacked and frosted the cake.  It brought back a lot of memories!  She had to keep encouraging me.  I still have lots that I need to practice on, but it was just nice to go and do that. Hopefully we'll be able to make some more soon!

Before we left Delight's daughter got a picture of us with the cake: