This really isn’t a HOW-TO post. More of a — not too shabby we did it post.
Last week my in law’s celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary. They were married young and still madly in love. 🙂
We wanted to make them a wedding cake. Chad laughed. I had high ambitions. We may be crafty folks and enjoy to cook but icing a cake correctly or even decorating it we have NEVER done.
Chad baked the cake with 2 size pans. Our 1st attempt to frosting it- crumbs all in the frosting. The cake looked quite sad. As we let it sit there and stare at it. I jumped online to YOUTUBE.com
What an amazing website right? I learned actually that 1st layer of frosting is the crumb layer. If we allowed it to set, we could then frost it again. I watched 3 movies on how best to ice this cake and how to try to smooth it out.
So I made up some more cream cheese frosting- and took another attempt. Working from the top down. I have new appreciation to cake decorators. What a skill!!
I kept spreading and shaping and scraping for 30-45 minutes till I was satisfied. 🙂
I remember my mom showing me how to pipe one type of cake border when I was a teenager. I have not attempted it since.
I mixed up some red cream cheese frosting and bagged it. (We chose red because 40th Anniversary is the year of the Ruby) I quickly tried my hand at the border on a piece of napkin. Looked decent as I could do. Took a deep breath and did the bottom layer. I was quite proud of myself. 🙂
Attempted to do the top layer. WOOHOOO. We were getting there.
I will admit the roses were purchased. They are Wilton Candy Roses 🙂 Chad has a great eye for placement and stuck the roses on the cake 🙂
Changed tips and piped on a big 40 on the top.
Honestly can’t believe how it came out for our 1st try as a team. Neither of us knowing what we are doing. 🙂
The In-Laws loved it. ALOT! We learned that night they never had a wedding cake before and so they were quite excited by this one.
*SCORE*
(It’s always good to win over the parental units right?)
So — for the blogging world we share our 1st attempt at icing/decorating a cake. We learned alot and actually looking forward to trying again in the near future!
And I will admit- the cake was DELICIOUS and MOIST 🙂
Both deaf since the age of 3, Chad and Mary Beth enjoy not only raising their little family but photographing together, cooking & crafting as well. Living in Central Florida with their ...
Great job! And your piped border looks really nice! Now you got the bug…don’t you want to make more 🙂 And what a nice surprise for your in-laws!!!
Ya’ll did a great job!!! Love the roses!!!