Update: Thank you to Notes on the Road for the nice write-up.
Here’s another mannequin cake, this time in pink. I used a yellow cake recipe with vanilla buttercream frosting. For some surface texture, I used a star tip and just piped the frosting all around the cake. I didn’t even take the time to crumb coat the Continue reading
I bought one of those stick dolls you can buy in a craft store to make this chocolate mannequin cake. There is something about mannequins I find so attractive, it may be because they are shaped in the human form. I have a few of them around the house, two in the bedroom, a small one in another and little ones scattered here and there. Continue reading
Pink cake with yellow roses. Since the many months I started baking as a hobby, I’ve always wanted for the longest time to enroll in some kind of cake decorating course where I could learn the proper techniques in frosting and decorating a cake. Imagine my excitement just around a few weeks ago, in early August when I found out our local craft store was offering a Wilton decorating course. It cost only $25 for four two-hour sessions every Saturday morning. Pretty reasonable rate considering all the time you get, plus the instruction was excellent. Continue reading
