Course 2 Finale

Tonite we assembled our Course 2 grand finale cake. To prepare, over the last three weeks we've been making royal icing flowers.

Here's my Victorian roses & rosebuds:We also learned daffodils, pansies, apple blossoms, mums, primroses, violets, violet leaves, daisies, and bachelor buttons.
For a 3D effect on our cake, we made color flow pieces. Butterfly wings and fences!
Iced cake, basket weave on the sides. Rope border on the top, swirl border on bottom. Then we added a buttercream lily of the valley.
And after adding my color flow pieces and royal icing flowers -here's the finished cake!





On to Course 3!

{ Easter Cake! }

Today I did my very first basketweave cake! The top is sorta meh, but I was happy enough with the basketweave and rope borders.

Had some trouble with the word "Easter". Did drop flowers. Interesting colors, are they not?
It wasn't a *perfect* basketweave, but it was pretty good for my first try. My wrist hurt so bad by the time I was done piping...

Happy Easter!

Flowers

I started Course 2 this week! Much to my delight, we're only making 1 cake this course. {I love making cakes but getting ready for A Paris Street Market means it's nice to take it easy this month!}

This week we learned how to pipe new borders - swirly shells, rosettes, etc. And we learned how to make royal icing, mums, and rosebuds. Yes, we piped those flowers!

I love making all sorts of things, but sugar is a great medium to work with, one of my favorites for sure.

I'm very excited to complete this Course 2 cake... it's going to be FAB!