Cake and Cookies

What to do on a Friday afternoon while on a diet? Yes! Let's make a cake!

Real good idea, Anna! Anyway, so I've been thinking about taking a cake decorating class for a while now. Friday afternoon, I went to Hobby Lobby. Hobby Lobby is one of my favorite places to go, except that every time I go, I spend way too much money. My trip to Hobby Lobby was originally for scrap book things. Some new stickers and such. I wanted to finish up my scrap book from Mizzou. Yeah, that didn't happen. I walked down the cake isle and all was lost. I found the course guides for the classes and decided to see if I could teach myself how to decorate cakes from just the book. I don't think I did too bad.

So this is the multitude of stuff that I bought while at Hobby Lobby, except for the Kitchen Aid. We already had that! Lol!

First, I baked the cake. For my first cake, I cheated and used a box mix. The creative cake types will come, sometime.

Ready for the oven here. Already the kitchen was filling with delicious smells.

This was my very first batch of buttercream icing. I totally had to try some, even though it was not on my diet. And let me tell you, it was delicious!

After a few tries, I finally found the right thickness. I have decided that is the tricky part. I'll have to keep practicing though.

Here are all my doodles. I was just having a good time with all the different tips. I've also decided that I can not print very nicely in icing, but I like the way that I write.

So here it is. My very first decorated cake. I don't think that I did too shabby of a job. My goals for the next cake are to level the cake out better. The edge didn't turn out too well and that was due to me doing a bad job leveling it out. I also really want to get the rose figured out. Again, I believe that is all about icing consistency.

Then on Sunday, Garrett wanted me to make some cookies. So me being the silly me that I am made him sugar cookies with icing decorations. I think they are strangely patriotic!

These were the last of the day. They didn't last too long, as Garrett ate them very quickly. I think they must have been good!! :)

Until next time!

Lots of Love!

~A