Lesson #2

Well, I said that I had to make a cake for class that had to have smooth icing before class. OK. Here we go, I got the Wilton cake pans. ONE from Linda's and ONE from Wal Mart. Lesson learned - they are not the same even though they are both Wilton. The one from WM is a lighter weight pan. Anyways, I bake my cake, 1/2 the batter in each pan. The WM pan cooks unlevel (YES my oven is level) so I take the cakes out and gently pat them like Linda said to do. Helped some but not enough. When I go to put the cake on the foil covered board, the WM pan cake cracked right down the middle. NO GOOD! So I bake another cake mix - still uneven a little bit, but did not break this time. Thank goodness. I mix up my icing and I am ready to ice it. It went good. It was smoother than I thought I could get it, but not "LINDA'S smooth" anyways I was proud.

Now it is time to leave, go get the other girls that are riding w/me this week and everyone has their own story to tell. Mine of course was about the cake pans. I am anxious to see everyone else's smooth cake. Well I did pretty good. One poor lady had a cake accident on the trip to the class. One side of her cake's icing was now on the cake taker instead.

NOW, it is time to start class. We got at the front of the class so that we could see Linda really good because we knew we were learning how to make flowers. WOW. Some of my "flowers" were quit different looking then any flower you have ever seen. But first we started w/borders. You know the shell, reverse shell (that was the trouble one), flowers and a squiggly border. She said that we had to do 2 different borders on our cake. One at the bottom and a different one at the top. And we would learn how to make sweet peas and roses. Sweet peas are what is on my cake in case you could not tell. She went around the room and helped all of us w/our borders and then our sweet peas. She made a perfect border one on my wax paper, then I made my borders. I asked her if she could tell which one was mine and which one was hers. She said "I better not comment". I guess that meant that she really could tell, she just didn't want to say it out loud. Then she made the sweet pea on my wax paper - I cut that sucker out and brought it home for my sample to practice by. I asked her how long she had been decorating, she said 40 years. My response, well I am not doing too bad 2 lessons to 40 years.

Roses - OH BOY! She makes everything look so easy, but she has been doing this for 40 years.

By this time, our icing is warm because we have been playing with it for 2 hours. The roses would just melt, or not even make. We have to take 13 roses with us next week plus another cake that is iced and smooth.

I am enjoying the classes and I am taking pictures of my progress. Someday I will be as good as Linda and laugh at my photos from these classes.

Ronnie, Gage and Kali enjoyed the cake. I took 1/2 of the cake to the Holt's. We can't eat all of the cakes by ourselves and Brian and India said that they would be glad to be cake inspectors. We will see what they think when they get home tonight. Bennett and Price were impressed. Bennett asked me "who made the icing"? I told him I did. If you know Bennett you can picture this, his eyes got really big and he said "it is really good". He may have been surprised that I could make icing. I don't know. Anyways, 5 votes for me. YEA!