i may have gone insane
So a friend and I were talking, mostly seriously (I guess), about taking a cake decorating class. This was some sort of hypothetical "in the future" thing.
Until I got an email yesterday about a real actual class happening now. We actually missed the first week, but that was supposedly just about the "basics" - they only frosted some cookies, but I'm guessing they went over technique and shit.
But we're going to do this, take the last three classes. The worst-case scenario involves me eating some poorly decorated cake, so this really isn't a bad thing.
The list of shit to bring, however, is a bit daunting:
What to bring to Lesson 2
* Reusable, cloth wipes
* Pencil or pen and paper
* Scissors
* Toothpicks
* Cellophane tape
* Waxed paper
* Bath-sized towel to spread over work area
* Plastic bags for cleanup
* Several small plastic bowls or disposable cups about 8 oz. size
* 25 paper napkins or a roll of paper towels
* 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
* Squeeze bottle with water
* Lunch-size paper bag (optional)
* Contents of The Decorating Basics Student Kit and Lesson Plan
* Angled Spatula to ice your cake
* Tip 789 Cake Icer Tip (optional)
* 16 inch Featherweight Bag (optional)
* Piping Gel
* Cake leveler
* Turntable
* Icing colors of your choice
* 10 inch cake board for torting
* 10 inch foil covered cake board or Show ’N Serve board
* Cake filling (optional)
* Cake lifter (optional)
* One 8 inch layer of cake on a cake board
* Class Decorating Buttercream- recipe on page 7 of the lesson plan
• 1 recipe thin consistency to ice cake in class
• 1 recipe medium consistency
I have most of this stuff (perhaps unsurprisingly...), so it's not going to be a gigantic investment - it just seems like a lot.
Though if I could someday decorate a cake like my grandma used to, well, that'd be pretty swell. I'll have to see if I can find a picture of one someday (almost assuredly buried in boxes of photos at my parents' house, which is generally inaccessible to me, though maybe my mom would appreciate the challenge... intriguing...), because those were epic.
tl;dr: I'm insane and going to decorate cakes. WTF.
Until I got an email yesterday about a real actual class happening now. We actually missed the first week, but that was supposedly just about the "basics" - they only frosted some cookies, but I'm guessing they went over technique and shit.
But we're going to do this, take the last three classes. The worst-case scenario involves me eating some poorly decorated cake, so this really isn't a bad thing.
The list of shit to bring, however, is a bit daunting:
What to bring to Lesson 2
* Reusable, cloth wipes
* Pencil or pen and paper
* Scissors
* Toothpicks
* Cellophane tape
* Waxed paper
* Bath-sized towel to spread over work area
* Plastic bags for cleanup
* Several small plastic bowls or disposable cups about 8 oz. size
* 25 paper napkins or a roll of paper towels
* 1 cup confectioners’ sugar
* Squeeze bottle with water
* Lunch-size paper bag (optional)
* Contents of The Decorating Basics Student Kit and Lesson Plan
* Angled Spatula to ice your cake
* Tip 789 Cake Icer Tip (optional)
* 16 inch Featherweight Bag (optional)
* Piping Gel
* Cake leveler
* Turntable
* Icing colors of your choice
* 10 inch cake board for torting
* 10 inch foil covered cake board or Show ’N Serve board
* Cake filling (optional)
* Cake lifter (optional)
* One 8 inch layer of cake on a cake board
* Class Decorating Buttercream- recipe on page 7 of the lesson plan
• 1 recipe thin consistency to ice cake in class
• 1 recipe medium consistency
I have most of this stuff (perhaps unsurprisingly...), so it's not going to be a gigantic investment - it just seems like a lot.
Though if I could someday decorate a cake like my grandma used to, well, that'd be pretty swell. I'll have to see if I can find a picture of one someday (almost assuredly buried in boxes of photos at my parents' house, which is generally inaccessible to me, though maybe my mom would appreciate the challenge... intriguing...), because those were epic.
tl;dr: I'm insane and going to decorate cakes. WTF.