Stars

Our first mission in Wilton Cake Decorating Basics class!  Having a friend to take a class with is fun.  And, considering there were only three people total in the class, boy did it help liven it up!

With our newly purchased kits, icing, plain, undecorated cookies and aprons in-hand, friend-Robin and I entered the room ready to learn....along with our instructor (also Robin, who I will refer to as instructor-Robin) and one other lady who already owns a bakery (why is she in there?!). 

The first little while, we went through the book, listened to our veteran cake decorator-instructor-Robin talk about her experience and watched her demonstrations.  At one point, I leaned over to friend-Robin and said "cha-ching, cha-ching!!," because every time instructor-Robin did something to her cake it was with a different tool - a saw of some sort to level the cake, new tips, flat spatula, curved spatula, a brush to get off extra crumbs (I thought you just iced over those!), paint brushes, an icing bag holder, a rotating platform, some twisty ties (to which I said to friend-Robin, "Can't you just use a rubber band?!").  This is serious stuff!  Of course instructor-Robin said, "What was that?," so I had to explain how all the tools look so much fun I just want every one of them...slinking in my chair.

After an hour, we finally got to practice and get our pure white icing the right consistency (I was told I got mine too thin), slide it in to the icing bags with the new tips and away we go on our first creations - stars.  We were starring fools.  First, on our practice boards, encouraging each other along the way - Robin: "OH yours are great, Peyton." Me: "Oh, not really, my icing's too thin.  YOURS are great!" Then....on to something edible -- COOKIES!!!  We designed eight cookies with various white stars designs - swirlies, initials, flowers made from stars.  How proud we were.  Then our cookies went in to a plastic container where all our work was immediately smushed.

Next week is huge.  We have to bake a cake before going to class and have about 20 supplies from home we have to bring (I currently only have about five of the needed supplies).  I know I'm doing this just for fun and to get some basics, but I want my creations to look close to perfect, so I am going to, undoubtedly, get in to this!

Note: I didn't get any in-action photos this first night because of the concentration required to perfect my stars.  I will take time to snap a few at the next class!