It’s been a
couple of weeks since I’ve practiced what I learned in my first Decorating
class, so I decided to make a cake for an Easter Brunch my husband and I are
going to be attending. There’s one thing
I learned…
I need more
practice.
I made a
lovely white cake with a pistachio filling.
That was about all that went right.
It started
with my filling – I used too much of it…. or I didn’t make a big enough
frosting border… whatever… I had pistachio oozing out the side of my cake. How did I fix it? I sealed in the sides with a gigantic blob of
frosting using a ridiculously wide decorating tip. Problem solved. Of course,
as I was trying to smooth out the sides and top, I occasionally would open a
fissure in the frosting blob that I’d have to fill back over, but I managed to
keep it together.
My simple
inscription “Happy Easter” looked like a kindergartner wrote it. I tried to fix it with a toothpick, but it
still looked a little shaky.
My roses,
while much prettier than my
first try,
I still had some issues.
I had a good
consistency for my frosting, but my hand kept heating it up.
The result was droopy roses that were very
difficult to get on my cake.
I tried to
fill in some of the sliding roses with leaves.
In the end, you could tell I was trying to hide something.
In short,
here’s what went well:
Baking the
cake
Making the
filling
Shell Border
What went
wrong – everything else.
I know you’re
dying to see the result…
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Notice the abundance of leaves in the middle of the roses? Just ignore that. Okay? Great.
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Here is a better shot of the shell and polka-dot border. I was proud of the way that turned out. |
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The Roses - Some of them turned out lovely but I massacred them while putting them on the cake. |
See what I mean?
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He's a sad droopy flower. |
Still, I’m
going to take it tomorrow. I figure
Easter is a solemn occasion that could use a little levity. We’re all going to get a good chuckle out of
my decorating attempt.
Happy Easter
to all and… happy baking!
