one more perfect rendezvous

last night was our final cake decorating class, and while i'm sad to see it come to an end, i have a feeling i will lose about five pounds without the weekly temptation of frosting. i mean, let's be honest- it's hard not to lick your fingers when things get a little messy, and you have the option to eat any mistakes you make :)

third class: practicing frosting techniques on cupcakes

a little recap* sully and i signed up for this class for a couple different reasons- to have fun and learn something new, but mainly to spend some quality time together. after we purchased all of our materials and baked some cookies for our first class, we sat back, and looked forward to what we thought would be an easy wednesday evening activity. we were stupid.

final class: sully's love bird cake

all of our classes were pretty challenging due to the weather and time constraints, and last night was no exception. we were supposed to bring a two layered cake with a center filling, fully frosted and ready to decorate. now, i typically wouldn't complain about something as minute as this, but as the only two girls in the class with nine-to-five jobs (we assumed), it made all of our tasks that much more difficult. not only did we have to bake, prep and refrigerate everything nights in advance, but then we had to shuttle it all from our apartments to our offices and then from our offices to our class. so it's no surprise with the weather we've been having, that sully showed up with a melted cake, and all of my pre-made sugar flowers were just small piles of pink by the time we arrived... from there, it was all down hill.

our frosting was too thin, our shapes wouldn't hold, the cakes were falling apart, my colors started running, everything looked soggy.... so long story short, on my drive home, i looked over at my cake just in time to see the whole thing turn to soup. literally, all of the frosting had melted off of the sides and formed a big blue/green puddle at the base of my cake keeper :/

i guess the moral of the story is that you should wait until winter if you want to take a cake decorating class...


*p.s. i took before and after photos, but i cant post them until tomorrow, because, unfortunately for her, i made this cake for my friend yajaira :)