i heart cake

I can’t believe it’s taken me a whole year to use up the Planet Cake voucher that i was given for my birthday last year. I guess life just got in the way and before i knew it my next birthday was approaching fast!

I ummed and ahhed about which class to take and as it turns out there was the Basics 103 scheduled for the day of my birthday. I couldn’t think of a better way to spend the day so booked myself in. It also helps that i could use the cake for my birthday dinner the following night!

As i started off with the Novelty series, covering a square cake was new to me. Thankfully i didn’t run into too much trouble and was able to keep up with the class.

Our facilitator for the day was the lovely Linda. I found her very helpful and really appreciated her help when it came to standing and positioning myself with my baby bump. Linda told me she did a PC course 2 weeks before she was due! Now that’s dedication

For the Magnolia cake, we started off with 2 square cakes that we had to cut and ganache. This i found relatively easy. The only tricky bit was when we got the corners but Linda helped me with that.

Once the cakes were ganached, we left them to dry and started work on the magnolia flowers. It was my first time using modelling paste and wiring so i was glad to have learned something new. First we made the bud, then the leaves.

Once the cakes were dry, it was time to cover them with fondant. This bit always has me a little stressed as you need to work especially fast ensuring the corners are attended to first so they don’t crack. Once we did both we used dowels to stack the top tier onto the bottom one.

I felt that once the cakes were covered, the fun part started where we got to actually decorate the cake. Since my birthday dinner theme was red and white, i decided to flow the theme through to the cake so i used red ribbon. Anyways, here is the final result which i pretty pleased about!

Tags: Birthday, Cake, Chocolate, Course, Planet Cake

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