SUMMARY: For my live interaction, I took a cake decorating class at Louise’s Cakes and Things in Hoover, Alabama. It was a beginner decorating class that was designed to help you get started on the basics of cake decorating. We worked with butter cream icing in a few different consistencies to be able to use certain techniques. In the class, we were taught how to make and fill a piping bag, add on a tip, ice an entire cake, and other techniques with different tips. We learned how to make dots, borders, shells, puff daisies, letters, and roses. The class was very helpful because it was hands-on and was taught by an actual decorator. Now, I am interested in taking the second course to learn more about cake decorating.
RESPONSE: I am so glad that I took this cake decorating class. If I had not done this, I don’t know how I would have been able to teach myself to decorate a cake. Online, you can find tips and strategies, but it is a lot easier to learn if you are actually trying it yourself. When I went in to the class I thought that it was going to be really easy, but I soon learned that a dot is one of the hardest things to perfect and not have peaks. And I am a perfectionist, so it was very frustrating to me to not be able to make them look like the instructor’s. I remember that she would always tell us the phrase that everyone has heard, but is so true. She would say, “Practice makes perfect”; and it really does. The class lasted for four weeks, and I had practiced so much that by the last week, I had gotten puff daisies down to a science. And once I taught myself how to use pressure control, I was able to do roses easily. On the last week, we brought in a cake and iced it and decorated it all by ourselves. It is really surprising to see how only four weeks of class can really help you to improve. Now, I can write, make flowers, and do borders on a cake. I think it is safe to say that I am ready to move on to phase two of cake decorating.
Miss Claudia. Beginner Cake Decorating. Louise's Cakes and Things. Hoover, AL. 17 Mar 2009 - 7 Apr 2009.
