We almost didn’t get it done this year but somehow we pulled it off. Yesterday I baked the cake and this afternoon Walker iced it. The eyes are candy disks that Walker got from Grandma for Christmas. I can see a lot of improvement in Walker’s piping after his class this winter. As cute as […]
As an ongoing service commitment, Walker’s Boy Scout Troop serves food at one of the local shelters once a month. They meet in the morning and do some food preparation before the guests arrive. The first time he attended, the troop needed to provide two sheet cakes for the guests. He signed up to make […]
In our last cake decorating class Glenn taught Walker how to create more flowers using stiff icing. Glenn held the tool and spun it to facilitate the application of the petals. Eventually and with practice, Walker will be able to do them on his own. The best part of the last class was getting to […]
For the past few years, our school has done a fundraiser in conjunction with the local hockey team, The Evansville Icemen. The St. John choir, of which Walker is a member, was invited to sing the National Anthem. In anticipation of the game and with the hidden agenda of using up the cookies and all […]
In our third cake decorating class, we dug deeper into the assortment of tips and unearthed a few that would create flowers. First Walker learned how to make the mum style on the cupcake. It looked a little like hair but I am discovering how versatile these tips are. If we changed the orientation of […]
Lesson two of the cake decorating class required us to bring a baked cake to class so we could learn how to divide it, level the top, insert a filling between the layers and then ice the outside. Walker used the water bottle to spritz the cake and smooth out all the wrinkles. Meanwhile, as […]
In preparation for another 4-H cake decorating project and for fun, Walker and I are taking a class together on Friday nights at Jo-Ann. Tonight was the first of four sessions. The other classmates did not show up so it looks like it will be a private class. Our assignment was to bring a dozen […]
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