Grand Finale Cake

The last class of Course No. 2 of the cake decorating class my mom and I took was last night. We made a cake using all the techniques we learned over the last four weeks. We learned to do color flow (making flat designs and letting them dry) and royal icing (the flowers dry hard) and to make victorian roses, mums, violets, and all kinds of other flowers.

Last night we learned to do the basket weave. It's amazingly easy once you know what you're doing!



The book showed a cake in white frosting with springy colors and bluebirds. Because it is September, I made my basket brown with fall colors and little brown birds.

I can't wait to make more cakes!

Well, actually I can....I won't be making any cakes until the end of October because I'll be so busy........................I won't have access to phones or e-mail (darn!) for a while.

The Party

Sara and Ricky

Teresa and Monte

Corn Hole was one of the favorites

My mom and sister

Mike and Hope from Waco, TX (Brent's Army buddy from Ft. Drum 20 yrs ago)

Teresa

More corn holers

Sandy

Monte

Maddi and Kenzee were having a ball with all the kids that came

Kenzee and one of her new friends

Ashley and Zoey mingling

Ricky and his future Uncle Rob

Kenzee

The best chef ever!

Brent, Ricky, Mike, Hope

The Claycombs (Glenn, Jodi, Hunter and Kearstin)and Ricky

My mom

Laurel's group

Kathy and Scott Foltz

Ashley

Melanie (Ashley's sister-in-law) and Dot (Ashley's mom)