Cake Decorating 101

Well, well, well.....last night was our FIRST ever cake decorating class and boy are we in for some FUN! If last night's class was an indication of what we're going to learn over the next 4 weeks, we are stoked!!

Since we were told to bring flat cookies and a tub of icing, we spent yesterday morning baking sugar cookies! We found a very simple recipe and were extremely pleased with the results! They were SUPER easy to make and rolled out like a dream. Here are the cookies ready to be baked in the oven:

We had a bunch of supplies to bring to class, including a kit with a ton of cake decorating essentials like couplers, piping bags, decorating tips to make flowers, stars etc, and even a spatula! Everything we need to get off to a creative start! We were also given a Course 1: Decorating Basics Manual, which is AMAZING! It's so informative, with a ton of step-by-step instructions on how to do everything from make the best icing to filling a piping bag, to crafting the perfect rose! Too fun!! It also gives us a sneak peak at what the rest of the course will entail - there are some pretty incredible creations in store - a little daunting but we'll work our way up!

Maybe we'll be making this for Mother's Day??

Anyways, enough dreaming, let's get back to what we do know! Our first lesson involved using the 'star' tip. We made little star designs on our cookies with our buttercream icing (yum!). It took a couple tries to get the hang of it, not only to make the star, but to even just use the piping bag correctly. We've discovered we're two-handed pipers (that sounds strange, but it's true!). After a few atttempts, the star started to take shape, although it's obvious that 'pratice makes perfect'. The more we try, the better we'll get - and we're ok with that! Here are some finished cookies (we'll try to add some colour next time to jazz it up!)

So, overall, Week One = success!! We're so happy that we're finally taking a course like this - definitely something we've wanted to do for a long time! Next week - we get to bring in a real cake!! Bring it on!

Sporting our awesome aprons!