My First Cake

So I have started many a blogs and I have hardly ever kept up with one. That's not entirely true, I have one other that I post in consistently but that means I post exactly once a month-still terrible. Hopefully I can post here a little more often than that. We'll see.

I just needed a place to share my projects whether it be a crafty projects or a baked one. I'm slowly making the move to a more handmade/homemade life and I am proud of my accomplishments. I try first at home to make or do something before going out an paying for it. That includes everything from materials used to services. I'm not even close to being there yet but the journey has been fun. I'm also trying to get my family on a whole foods diet as well. That's a bigger success. We shop at Trader Joe's and we love it! Trader Joe s has a wide selection of organic foods that doesn't taste like cardboard.

So here goes...

I am taking the Wilton Cake Decorating class Course 1 at Michael's. It's fun and it gives me time alone from my boyfriend and my daughter. I haven't had "me" time since she was born last August. The first cake we were supposed to make could have either been a shaped cake or a round cake that you put a rainbow on...I chose the rainbow.

So what do you think? Ha, I have no followers yet so I am talking to myself here but it doesn't matter. I am very proud of it. I especially like the clouds. I used white and blue icing to ice the cake to make it look more like a sky. The book only called for blue and it was a darker blue than that. What I am most proud of is the way I mixed the darlker blue of the rainbow. In the book it was purple and I think the blue is better so I mixed Wilton icing colors violet and royal blue to get that nice deep blue.

The cake is America's Choice-Lemon. I was going to make it from scratch but for the sake of saving time and money to actually decorate the cake I just bought it. The cake was delcious but I barely ate a slice. My boyfriend Greg ate almost half the cake by himself. We gave the other half away to his family.

Anywho. That's my first cake.