In the second day of Blog Every Day in May the prompt is Educate us on something you know a lot about or are good at. Take any approach you’d like (serious and educational or funny and sarcastic)
I love baking and try to find new recipes to make. Some of my favorite things to bake are my grandma’s banana bread. I made it for her for Christmas a couple years ago and she loved it so much and cried when she was told that it was from her recipe. I also love making her monster cookies. I have been wanting them for the whole week so I am getting what I need to make them this weekend. Another one of my favorite things to bake are cupcakes. I love cupcakes so much that I could eat them all the time. I have so many different recipes that I could probably write a cupcake cookbook, but it wouldn’t be original because they are ones from other people that I have collected from online.
I love decorating cakes too! I haven’t done this in a long time, but it is something I really like doing.
I love decorating cakes too! I haven’t done this in a long time, but it is something I really like doing.
I made this one for my mother in law’s birthday the year before we moved to Georgia.
This was my first decorated cake. I made this one during my Wilton class.
This was for my mom for Mother’s Day.
Just few cake decorating tips:
If you are decorating your cake on a warm day and it starts to look like it is melting, DO NOT WORRY! Just put it in the fridge for about 30 minutes. It will set up and you can continue decorating. Keep doing this every time it looks like it is melting until you are done. It may seem like it will take forever to finish doing this, but would you really want a cake that is all melted?
You can use cookie cutters for shapes instead of drawing it out every time. I used a flower and butterfly cookie cutter for my first cake and a flamingo cookie cutter for the cake for my mom for Mother’s Day! Just press the cookie cutter into the iced cake and pipe your colored icing into the shape.
You can make your own icing or use the canned Wilton icing from Hobby Lobby or Michaels. Using the Betty Crocker, Duncan Hines, or Pilsbury stuff doesn’t work. It is too thin for piping.
If you want to make black icing, use a chocolate icing base. When you use a white base icing with black icing coloring it will look more gray. You will have to add practically a whole bottle of icing color and it will end up tasting really bad. So using a chocolate icing base is better because the chocolate doesn’t take as much coloring.
I think this might actually be it for today! I hope to continue this all month because it looks like so much fun!
