On Saturday morning I went for a
cupcake decorating class at The Make
Lounge. It was a two and a half hour class and apart from the fact
that I was excited about cake decorating, it just felt really good to be doing something creative! I have recently had the same conversation with different friends about the fact that we use our creativity so rarely that it feels like that part of brain is dead. It made me realise that what I love so much about baking and decorating cakes; and particularly cupcakes, is that I can be creative.
That evening I went over to a friend's house for the first in our series
(friendly; not the TV show) of 'Come Dine with Me' - all in all, it was a
pretty perfect day :D
Anyway, back to the cupcake
decorating course! It was in a nice bright studio, and I think there were 10
people on the course that morning. The room was set up like so...
And each seat around the table
had a set of equipment; piping bags, spatulas, rolling pin, nozzles and most
importantly 14 cupcakes between two people! I know you can do the math (and
it's pretty simple math so if you can't do it, we, I mean you, have a problem
:p) but I'll help out anyway. That's 7 each! At the end, we got a 6-cupcake box
to take our cupcakes home, (again more math) leaving 1 for us to eat! Yipppee!
Our instructor Louise makes huge
cake sculptures -
anyone watch 'Cake Boss' or 'Ace of Cakes’? Yup those kinds of cakes.
Through a couple of group demonstrations followed up by her walking round and
helping, I learnt how to make this messy swirl that I've always admired in some
cupcake chains. I also learnt to make marzipan roses!!! Apologies for the
blurry photos but you have to admit; my roses are pretty amazing huh? And to
think they began life as a slab of off-white marzipan!
We learnt to pipe roses (again
something I have admired on other cupcakes and never realised how easy they
were to do), pipe using two different colours simultaneously ...
and finally, we
got to play around with glitter and these stamp thingies to turn our cupcakes
from merely pretty to these-are-so-beautiful-I-can't-bear-for-them-to-be-eaten
:D
I would totally recommend this
course to anyone who is interested in cupcake decorating!
11 comments:
Yes they look beautiful BUT I'd still eat them in a heartbeat, lol!
Can't wait to see you using your new skills on future cupcakes...
Yummmm. You did a great job.
Great job, sweetie. Cant wait to see all the beautiful decorations you'll be doing soon.
Love them. very nice. everyone loves pretty cupcakes! love the one with the pink rose... so chic :)
The decoration are awesome...! Make me even want these cup cakes a lot more. Can't wait for the ones you will be bringing for my wedding..!!
Great post, so true about not using creativity, made me feel like drawing or something!
lol @Adura, these cupcakes are too pretty to eat!
@Adura: Ha ha, this is why I didn't show them to you in person!
@Nimz: Thank you!
@Mari: Thank you hun! I can't wait to show you :)
@C.O: Thank you, the one with the pink rose is my favourite too
@Lola: Hmmm, I'm a bit sceptical about how I'd transport these from London to LA for your wedding but for now I'll just nod and say 'of course' :D Come and visit, I think that might be a better plan!
@Ms Afropolitan: Can you draw? I can't, which is why I decorate cupcakes ;p You should try it sometime!
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