Cake or death?

Here's a quick rundown of all of the other cakes I've done since the first post...

This was the "package cake" that I did for my class...


These are the first and second iterations of the cake that I made for my aunt's birthday. Overall, this little project did not go particularly well. The filling that I used gooped out the bottom when I had first covered the cake with fondant. Then I took the fondant off and made up a batch of buttercream, but for the life of me I could not keep the crumbs out. Then I did it with the yellow flowers on top, decided that I wanted to do something more, and added the yellow sotas and the blue flowers. Which looked pretty good. And then something dreadful happened in the car, and the whole thing was smooshed up against the side of the carrier when we got to her house for dessert. Such professionalism...but still yummy!


Then there was the final cake that I made for the fondant class, which was also my first ever tiered cake. I was very happy with how this turned out. I was obsessed with those roses!



And this one is the latest, and the one I'm probably happiest about so far. It's taken from a book by Collette Peters, cake-decorating goddess of NYC.

It's feeling really good---in this area in particular, but also in other artistic endeavors---for the results to be turning out like what I think they're going to be. Like...my mental images of what I should be able to do are getting more and more accurate.

The next couple of weeks will be busy ones with this stuff... Janice and I are getting ready to enter a contest that could mean a big boost to the professional plans should either one of us be able to win. Pictures from that to come I'm sure...