Another Cake

Last week, Rachel and I got to put our cake-making skills to work! We had a birthday party after church last Sunday night for one of our ladies' 90th birthday. Unfortunately, it came on a weekend when we were really busy, but we managed to get everything done. I baked the cakes and made the frosting and helped frost some of the cakes, while Rachel made the roses and did the decorating. The only thing that went wrong was that some of the roses slid down the cake on Sunday afternoon, but Rachel was able to fix them pretty easily. We used four cake mixes and four batches of icing (that's 8 lbs of sugar!) Dad kept making jokes in church about our cake, and he told everyone that since we were afraid that it may fall, we had to fortify it with wooden dowel rods. He said we should have just put some concrete in the cake mix! All cakes that are that big have to have dowel rods or something to support them, but I guess everyone doesn't know that! But everyone said the cake tasted good, and only one person got a dowel rod in the cake (I've never cut a cake before! At least it was one of my sisters!!! LOL!) But this morning, Dad was still talking about the "earthquake cake" that we made one time! I don't think he's gonna ever let us forget that one! :-)

doesn't she look good for 90 years old?

The Tale of the Two Cakes

It was Saturday night, and we knew company was coming the next day. Rachel and I decided to each make a cake...mine was yellow cake w/chocolate frosting, and Rachel's was white cake w/white frosting. Things were going good...neither of the cakes tore up when they were taken out of their pans...the frosting turned out to be the right color...everything just seemed to be going really well for once! As I was admiring my finished cake - which definitely didn't look as good as the pic in the book, but didn't look terrible, either - I discovered that one of my younger sisters was making a design on wax paper with some of my leftover frosting and flowers. I was so ashamed!!! She hadn't even taken the class, and here she was making an arrangement that looked 100 times better than mine! (I think I'm going to give up this idea of decorating cakes, and stick to simple things!lol!)
Rachel's cake turned out pretty good, I thought. We cleaned up our mess, and were busy doing different things when Dad came in and took a look at our cakes. He discovered that Rachel's cake had three small cracks in the top. We figured it was no big deal, it could be fixed in the morning. But by an hour later, the top layer of the cake was totally split into three large cracks! By the morning, it looked like someone had cut three giant slices of cake! Nobody dared to mess with the cake - we just served it like it was. I didn't get any pics of her cake after it split, but I wish I had! Oh, well, it tasted really good, anyway! :-)

The Grand Finale!

I'm finally posting the pics of our cakes that we made the last week!

Rachel made a chocolate sheet cake...

Heart Cupcakes

My sister decorated these cupcakes, and I thought they looked real pretty.

Clowns!

It seems like lately I've been saving up pics, and then putting them on all in one day! Here is my creations from last Thursday's cake decorating class. These clowns were fairly easy to make...the heads aren't frosting, but actually plastic toppers. I think they're cute!

More pics of my cake

Oops, I almost forgot to post these pics...

Cake Decorating

My sister and I have started yet another project (much to the girls' delight) - cake decorating. We are currently taking classes at Hobby Lobby, and just made our first cakes. She decided to make a lady bug cake, which turned out really nice (of course, as always!)


My sunflower cake tasted good, but didn't look nearly as nice. :-(


Here's a pic of what it should have looked like:


Oh well, I'm sure it takes a lot of practice! :-) But it did taste good, or at least my brother thought so! :-)