Trying something new

Well yesterday I tried to make this little heart shaped brownies that I saw on tv but they did not come out exactly how I wanted them or I saw on tv which got me a little upset but at the end I eat them with my family and they did taste really good. I did some more research and I also learn how to shape a round cake into a butterfly shaped it is really cool and I will never have tough of that idea. Well I also want to start my cake decorating classes again so I am looking for a food time to take them. Well I hope next week I do something better and get my schedule on track.

well i been having problems this couple of days trying to log in to my account but now that is fix. i been doing some research on different clases of cake decorating to see what else i can learn. i also wanted to see if i can go to a place where they make cakes for parties to see how the business works and how they make everything. i also wanted to try something new this weekend like make really cool cupcakes or the llolipop cakes that i been learning how to make in my research. this weekend is going to be compllicated seens my mom is leaving with my sister for competicion so i have to help my dad with everything specially with my other sister. i hope to get more done this week.

not much

well today was not a very productive day i hang out with my friends and did homework. i did very little research on my project, i just looked over one of the books that i have at home to reread something that i did not remember. i also got a little more organized for next week. i hope next week i do more with my wise project. i also finish the first cake decorating lesson and i am so ready to take level 2 i cant wait i am going to learn how to use royal icing. i hope to be able to write more next week about my experience with my wise project.

yesterday

Well yesterday friday was a very long day but it was good I had class and I made a really cool cake. I learn how to make roses so I made 12 roses to put around my cake which they came out very pretty. The roses where really hard to make at first but once I kept practicing they started to come out really good. In my cake I also put this kind of like dot pattern which I think made the cake look better and I also made a rosset border at the bottom which came out amazing. I am so proud of my self for being able to to make a cake that good.

last couple of days

well this past couple of days i have been searching for better ways to decorate cupcakes because i feel that they should be decorated like cakes and come out amazing. so i went onto various websites and did not really found directions to how to decorate does cupcakes but i did found videos on YouTube which are awesome because they shoe you step by step how to decorate them and they come out so pretty i cant wait to try to make them. i also today made a cake for my cake decorating class tomorrow i cant wait we are going to decorate it and i have to bring it fill with chocolate pudding and frosted. i am so excited.

pictures

wednesday- sunday

Wednesday through Sunday was a hard week but i also accomplished many things. to start a could not blog any other day until today because blogger did not let me in into my account so it took a while to fix which i was not really happy about. but well now that this is fixed i will tell you what i accomplish this week. so Wednesday i did some research and read one of the books that i have home to find a valentines cake decoration ideas because i made valentines mini cakes for my friends. so my cooking started on Thursday in the morning which i baked 12 cupcakes, a cake, and 6 mini heart shape cakes. it was alot of work but fun at the same time. it was pretty easy i just had to make the batter and put it to cook the harder part about this day was trying to get all the cakes out of their pan without missing any part of them which after a while and patients i was able to get all of them out of their pan and into a board so they can cool.on Thursday i also had a lot of homework and i also went to the Enrique inglesia concert which was amazing, so i can home really late which made it harder for me to wake up early on Friday so i did not really got an early start.on Friday afternoon my sister and i made different color icings for are class on Sunday so we could decorate are cupcake, we also made filling. making the icing was fun but it was messy, we made different color like light blue,dark blue, yellow, green, pink, purple and a couple others. on Saturday i startes decorating my heart shape mini cakes and trying different things on how i wanted to decorate them, so i decided that i wanted to use fondant. i have never used fondant before so i was reading online and on one of the book i have at home what is the best way to use it. using the fondad at first was really hard but as a practice it became easier and my cakes ended up being really cute. this same day i went to see my grandma so i had no time to finish decorating my cakes so i saved them so i could finish them on Sunday. on Sunday morning i had my class and we decorated cupcakes it was fun at the beginning but i did not really like it that much i like decorating cakes better. my cup cakes did not really end up as i wanted them to look so i am guessing that was a mayor factor on why i did not like decorating the cup cakes that much. today i also finish decorating my valentines cakes and they are really cute, i love them i cant wait to give them to my friends.

research

well this week i hope is better than last week but i guess i just have to wait and see. so today was a pretty god day i took a test that i though i fail but i did not, i did one of my favorite things which is painting, i am painting with one of my friends a rain barrel for art club and we are having a lot of fun doing. finally when i got home i did something that i enjoy as much as painting as that was research for my cake decorating project which i love. today i look for ideas and some recipes because i wanted to see what was so different about the ingredients in different vanilla or other flavored cakes. i found a couple of good websites like country kitchen sweetart and in this website their is a lot of awesome ideas and it also contains really good instructions. it has instructions on everything like decorating cookies. cakes, cup cakes and it also has different ideas for different occasions. pink cake box was another good website i found. the cakes you can find in this website are really unique and i hope i could make cakes like this someday.to find great recipes for different things and flavors i found the joy of baking website which is really good too and i really enjoy reading the recipes.
this are the links to the different websites i mention
http://www.countrykitchensa.com/
http://www.pinkcakebox.com/
http://joyofbaking.com/

the cake i decorated

baking and decorating a cake

well today was a rushed and tiring day, i woke up very early because i had cake decorating class but before going i had to make a cake and other things that i needed to take so i had to make the batter to make a cake then i had to put the cake in the oven for like an hour, meanwhile i was making the frosting and the filling for the cake which each took a good 30 minutes, so then when the cake was done and ready i had to let it cool down for like an hour which i had no patients for. then i packed everything to take to class and grabbed my cake and left. the class was really fun i learn how to cut a cake in half and put the pudding filling in it and it seems really easy but when you have to do it its really hard. then i learn how to put the frosting to cover the cake and you have to have a lot of patients to do that because if you do not do it the right way you will mess up the frosting with the cake crums and it becomes really hard to fix later. after i put on the frosting i had to boil water and then with the hot water i had to smooth the frosting so the cake looks descend. finally i learn how to draw on top of a cake and i drew a cup cake which i though it was going to be easy for the first time doing it, it turns out that the first part is easy because you just have to draw it and then but this gel thing on top but after when you have to put it on top of the cake so it will mark it sometimes it gets stuck and the frosting that is under it gets ruined and it does not look so pretty so i had to be extremely careful. and then from their is really easy because i just got to decorate the cake however i wanted to i did like ball circle things like around the bottom and top of the border of my cake which turn really good for being the first time. after all that fun in the morning i had to come home and do my homework which i had a lot. when dinner time came i was excited because after dinner we cut the cake and tasted it which  i was surprised but it tasted really good.

pictures making cookies

cooking day

today was i very fun and entertaining day. i woke up and bake sugar cookies and i made them with heart and flower shapes, i have never been able to make cookies with shapes so i was really excited i even watch them bake because i could not believe it. i also got to make my own frosting which was awesome but i did not think it was going to be so hard like it was and it required a lot of steps but in the end it ended up being really good. later i decided that i wanted the frosting in different colors so i spilt the frosting into four parts and dye each part a different color which included red, yellow, pink, and purple. i also did not know that if you touch the food coloring with your hands it ends up dying your hands and its so hard to take off so i have pink and purple hands for a while until i decides to ware off. after having this amazing morning i had to go to school for third hour and then i had to stay to finish painting something for art club and then i had a HOSA meeting and while i was doing all that i wanted to get back home to decorate my cookies, so when i got back home i had a lot of fun decorating my cookies with different colors and i was so proud of my self for being able to do this all by my self. it was an awesome experience and i cant wait to decorate a cake this weekend i hope is as fun as decorating cookies.

working on it

this week is not going so well my dad left on a business trip and then my little sister got sick. i had a lot of plans to work on my project but i had to help my mom around the house and help with my sisters. i was planing today to decorate cookies but i could not because i did not have time but i did go to Publix and bought the ingredients so i could make the cookies tomorrow because i have great ideas and i also bought everything for the cake i am going to decorate on Friday at my class which i am really excited.
this weekend i also want to do more research in different things and ways i can decorate i cake.
i also want to learn how to make frosting and fondant from scratch and then be able to color it with food coloring and be able to decorate cakes with it. i will also like to look for templates or make my own because i need them to make the different designs on cakes. i hope that the rest of this week will get better and that next week i can put more time into my project. the last thing that i am going to talk about today that i am really excited is that i am practicing decorating cookies everyday so i am getting better.