Lindsey

Yes, it is a chocolate cake. She told us choc is harder to frost than a yellow cake. I guess the crumbs show up more. I'll post a photo of last nights cake later..

Lindsey

Here is another cake I did in class..

Gerbie

Looks good gal. You are doing great. May I give you a suggestion. If you will freeze your cakes before you frost them, you will not have as many crumbs to deal with when frosting them. If there are any loose crumbs you can brush them off and not mess up the rest of the cake or get new crumbs. Yes chocolate is harder, because of the dark crumbs showing through the white frosting. But when frozen, they work much better. I alway freeze my cakes before frosting them, unless I am really pushed for time. Just a little hint. To make your cakes flatter on the top, I always take an old dish towel, or large terry cloth hand towel, usually takes two depending on the size of the pan. I safety pin them together on one end and throughly wet them then wrap all around the edges of the pan and pin the remaining two ends. Sometimes, the fabric may scorch some, but that's why you use an old one. With these wrapped around the pan, the cake cookes from the middle out leaving the sides moist, instead of from the sides first and giving you a hump in the middle of the cake that may need to be trimmed off before frosting, leaving lots of crumbs. Keep up the good work.

hperttula123

That looks great. I've tried to decorate a couple cakes before and mine look nothing like yours.

BellaBoo

I took a 3 month cake decorating class many years ago at a local college in Southern Calif. It was a lot of fun. We decorated Styrofoam cut to be the size of the cakes. The icing we used for decorations was the Crisco, powdered sugar recipe. It is very smooth and stays put. I still decorate the cakes I make with roses and piping. I bought the professional baker set of cake decorating tools back then for $75, a 50 piece set. It is not Wilton brand and I don't know if it is still made or not. Not one plastic piece in the set. Everything is heavy stainless. My oldest DD has claimed it as hers.

Lindsey

Well once again thanks for the tips. I do appriciate all of them. I can't take the next class unless its a different day. My guild meetings are the same night as the cake class and I am in charge of the raffle quilt this year. Well perhaps I could miss one cake class and make it up. We shall see. Its just for fun not for money. I might starve if it were for money. However I would get to eat lots of cake lol..