Course 2 Finale Cake

This cake was somewhat of a pain but only before the actual decorating commenced. I baked two small oval cakes but I didn't really layer them properly so the raspberry filling I put in the middle wanted to spill out. So I quickly frosted it with my buttercream in a tub frosting and though it proved a little challenging to not get raspberry mixed in with the frosting I didn't really care because I knew it would be covered up. The next morning as I was leaving for work I noticed a small crack in the frosting where some filling had leaked out. "No big deal," I thought. "I'll just fix it when I get home." When I got home the crack hadn't changed, thank goodness. So I added a little more frosting to cover it up but it looked terrible and it didn't want to go on smoothly again I didn't really care. Okay I cared and said a few choice words but really it was going to be covered up.

I packed up all my supplies for class and grabbed the cookie sheet with the cake on it and carefully headed out to my car. It's somewhat of a long drive to the class and with every bump the cake was not happy. By the time I got there one side of my cake's frosting had fallen revealing the inside. I thought it was irreparable and was upset that I wouldn't get to decorate it. But my teacher showed me a tried and true trick to fix it and with a little spatulaing it was back together. Here is a mock up of what it looked like sans all the flowers and basket weave decoration. I hope this portrays what I saw accurately enough.Here is my finale cake. I made a lot of other different flowers that I'll post pictures of later, but I liked the look of just using two flowers: the daisy and apple blossom. It turned out a lot better than I thought it would. I took pictures at the class because I had a feeling the icing would fall again on the way home. It did even though I tried to drive carefully, but it wasn't as bad and the basket weave distracts from it somewhat. Now who am I going to give this cake to?

One more course left but do I take it next month, on Saturday afternoons where the last class is on Dec. 22 so I wouldn't get to go home for Christmas until that night (but could possibly bring a fabulous cake home) or wait until next year. Decisions, Decisions.

Oh and if you are wondering about the other male cake decorating teacher. He isn't teaching any classes until next year so I won't get to check him out until the end of January and may take his candy making class, which is only one class and strictly observatory. So we'll all have to wait for that story to play out.