Let them eat cake...

Okay, so here is the update on my cake decorating progress...It's actually tougher than it looks!

WEEK 1:
Don't mind the crappy frosting job I did as the base frosting. I thought if I gave myself an hour before the class I would have plenty of time to make the frosting and mix all the different colors and consistencies. Yeah, I was most definitely wrong! I was freakin out when Callie came to pick me up at 6:20pm(class starts at 6:30pm) and I didn't have my cake frosted and half of the colors weren't mixed either. Thanks to Callie's help, we were only 5 minutes late. I was totally flustered the whole class though. I'm a nerd. Here is the cake...

The pattern we were supposed to use was a gay rainbow and my colors weren't exactly those of the rainbow so I decided to turn my rainbow upside-down and make it into a Chinese smiley face, in honor of the Beijing Olympic Games. The main thing they taught us this week was the little stars. That's the technique I used to fill in the rainbow. I think I pretty much got that one down.

WEEK 2:
This week we decorated cupcakes! I love cupcakes, they are so much more fun because a) you don't have to frost the sides, b) lots of little cakes = you can try more decorating techniques, and c) if you mess up, you've got another fresh little cake to start over with. I mixed up some crazy fun colors to decorate these babies. We learned how to do the shell border, flowers, and the base and first petal of the rose. Those are scary! We will learn how to do the rest of the rose next week. I'll let you know how it goes.
Here are the cupcakes I decorated this week, don't look too close, they're definitely far from perfection:

Week 3 is next week and that is the final class for Course 1. We'll be making a cake to show all the techniques we've learned and "mastered"(yeah, probably not). I'm trying to think of a good idea, any good ideas?? Anyone? Bueller?