Pink Saturday Cake

Happy Pink Saturday!!!

I just completed the Wilton Fondant and Gum Paste classes. I love working with fondant. Fondant reminds me of play dough. It's a therapeutic reminder of childhood, fun to work with and the possibilities are endless!!

Today for Pink Saturday, I am sharing my cake from the class. Of course, it's PINK!!

If you have time today, stop by and say hello to my friend Peggy's at My Affairs with Art and Daily Life. Peggy's husband is recovering from a stroke. I know she'd love hello's from all of the "Pink Saturday Gals".

Thanks to Beverly at How Sweet the Sound for hosting this Pink Party every Saturday!!!

Happy Birthday Pink Saturday!

Pink Saturday is celebrating it's second year today!! Pink Saturday is a wonderful group of bloggers who every Saturday celebrate all things PINK!!

In honor of it's second birthday, Pink Saturday is featured in the current issue of Artful Blogging. There have been as many as 800 different bloggers participating in Pink Saturday! Amazing!!!

Thanks to Beverly of How Sweet the Sound, the founder and talented hostess of Pink Saturday.

This is the cake from my last class of Wilton Cake Decorating Course 2. Happy Birthday Pink Saturday!



One Year Ago Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp.

Happy Pink Saturday!

I love Pink Saturday. This is my sixth week participating. It's the most wonderful group of women. Everyone is fun and interesting. What a great way to begin the weekend! It doesn't get any better than pouring myself a cup of coffee and visiting with friends. I guess it's the cyber way of coffee with your friends. Thanks to Beverly of How Sweet The Sound for hosting this fabulous weekly event!!

This week I am sharing with you the cake I decorated for the final class in Wilton Course 1 of Cake Decorating. I really enjoyed these classes, so much so I signed up for Course 2 starting next Monday night. If I had a criticism of the classes it would be the amount of techniques they try to teach in a night. Last week after we finished learning the techniques, we had about 20 minutes to finish decorating our cakes. I really wanted to put roses on top of my cake. These roses are HARD! I think they'll get easier with practice but they're hard. I didn't have time to finish the cake in class. I ended up with two good or should I say acceptable roses. My plan was to make a few more at home. This has been a crazy, busy week. Finally a couple of nights ago, I tried to make a few more roses. I couldn't get the frosting the proper consistency. I had frosting everywhere. The kitchen was one big icing disaster. I made a couple of leaves and called it a cake!

I didn't like the way the cake looked. I thought if we ate a couple of pieces it would distract you from my not so beautiful decorating job. Did it work?

This week I'd like to introduce you to another one of my Pink Saturday friends, Debbie of Debbie Dabbles. Stop by her blog, you'll enjoy your time there!

Happy Monday - Cake Decorating

Happy Monday!! Knowing we would return from KC late yesterday, I decided to take today off. I have a list of things I would like to accomplish. The list is longer than the hours in the day, go through Spring clothes in the closet, split my seedlings, sort recipes for meals and blog posts, bake a cake and maybe just maybe take a short nap. Sounds like a busy day but when you normally work Monday through Friday, it's a great day!!

The cake I am baking is for tonight's final class in my Wilton Cake Decorating Course #1. We need to make a rose to "pass" this class. EEEKKKKKKK! So far in class, we've only made the first two parts of the rose and it's hard. I am sure it gets much easier with practice. Note to self, add to today's list...practice the rose!

Here's my cake from last week's class. I love making these flowers. They're so easy!

Cake Class - Pink Saturday

Happy Pink Saturday!! This is my third week participating in Pink Saturday. It's so fun, what a great group of women. Thanks to Beverly of How Sweet the Sound for hosting!!!

I am taking Course #1 of Wilton's Cake Decorating Series. Taking a cake decorating class was one of my 2010 bloggin resolutions. It's so much fun and not as hard as I thought it would be (so far, anyway).


My cake this week is a perfect Pink Saturday post! I love this color of pink frosting!


This week I'd like to introduce you to Birgit of Swapping Howdies. She's a blogger from Munich who I met on last week's Pink Saturday.

Cake Top Cake - Foodie Friday

I am taking the Wilton Course 1 in cake decorating. This week we decorated our first cake. We are learning to make those beautiful roses you see on decorated cakes.

When I made my cake for class, I had the two leftover cake tops. I decided to make a little cake top cake for us.



Kinda cute, huh?

I am linking this to Foodie Friday at Designs by Gollum.