Final Cake

Since June I have been taking cake decorating classes at Michael's. It has been something that I have been interested in doing, and so while EC was gone during the summer and I was bored out of my mind, I happened into Michael's and saw that they were offering the beginning course, and I signed up. I have had the same teacher for all 4 classes I have taken, and she is wonderful! She is a professional cake decorator, as I have mentioned before, and I aspire to be like her. Wednesday was the final class of the final class and an adventure it was! I learned how to make carnations (as you can see) and with a little help from my blow dryer, I think they turned out very nice. We also learned these really ugly fantasy flowers and other basic fondant stuff that I probably could have figured out on my own, but enjoyed watching others in my class struggle with (wha ha ha). The spirals may have given me some issues and I had to take them home and finish them at home. The actual cake turned out amazing. It is a checkerboard cake with blackberry filling. I would like to mention that this is the first time that my checkerboard cake actually looked like a checkerboard, but since I took the cake to work and gave it to B, and I didn't have a camera at work, you can't see the checkerboard-ness, but trust me, it looked cool, and I am super proud I have finally figured out how to make checkerboard cakes.

I will post the recipe later!