And That's the Way the Cake Crumbles...

(not my picture. thank goodness)

It has been a very weird feeling to break for the norm of four years and not return to school this January. Graduating is weird!
When my mom and my little sister suggested I take the Wilton cake decorating classes at Hobby Lobby with them I jumped on the bandwagon!

We meet every Tuesday for two hours.
Last week was just basically just a 'welcome, this is what you need and here is your homework' type lesson.
Tomorrow (or today, however you look at it) we each have to take an already baked and filled and frosted cake to class.
We decided to bake our cakes today so tomorrow all we have to do is frost the cakes and go.
The first cake we made looked ok but had lots of airbubbles in it and the top domed up a lot (which is fixable but still a little disheartening).
We poked the second cake with a toothpick a million times and each time the toothpick came out clean, but when it came time to remove the cake from the pan half the cake came out and half stayed in and the both sides were covered in cake batter.
The third cake baked level (no dome in the middle) and came out of the pan just fine, but after about 15 mins of cooling on the rack it sunk in in the middle telling us it could have baked just a little bit longer.
The forth cake we made (to make up for the uncooked and broken second cake) domed up in the middle and about an inch stuck to the bottom of the pan when we were taking it out (all fixable), but when we went to level the cake off it started to crack into pieces on the side.

I certainly hope every Monday isn't like this!!

I'll keep you updated on what we do in class and how well we do! I'm excited!