Tuesday, April 27, 2010

To Do List

To get this blog to be what I want it to be there are some basic housekeeping things I need to do before my first real official post:
  1. Get batteries for my camera (so I can but pictures up, blogs with out pictures are SO boring)
  2. Buy sufficient rolling pin (a can of keystone light from last nights party is just not working out)
  3. Get roommates to clean kitchen more often (possibly wishful thinking)
  4. Read many many many cake blogs to keep mind off boring environmental history class
So it looks like I don't have that much to do, but being realistic, the kitchen thing will never happen. I mean we are in college here and the last thing on my roommates' minds is cleaning a kitchen so I can make pretty cakes. Also number four is basically complete because technically I am supposed to be studying for a history test right now and I am working on my cake blog...ya one down!

My roommates are very supportive and love it when I make them cakes and cupcakes. They take pictures and say they are beautiful, but ti be completely honest I just started actually decorating and I am not the best at it. That is what this blog is for though right? So I can see my improvement? I hope so.
So here are two cakes that my roommates and very supportive boyfriend decided needed to be photographed:
This cake was strawberry, I made a puree added it to the batter and then in between each layer I had some of the puree and some white chocolate and milk chocolate. I struggled with decorating the sides of the cake though, I suck at basket looking decor.
This quite literally the first cake I ever decorated. Haha it is pretty lumpy looking, I really struggled with the basic icing of the cake. My roommate is on the lacrosse team here so I made them a cake.

I took pictures of my other cakes and cupcakes on my cell phone so I am still in the process of trying to get them onto the internet. Oh yeah took a cake decorating class from Cheri Bloomquist, she is amazing, there were 4 basic lessons, and I am excited to take her tiered cake class in May!