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carlakb said…

I can remember the 1st cake I made for my mom becoming a pastor and I proudly brought it to her Church for her celebration; I think I might have embarrassed her w/it? It was a dark purple, didn’t know how to pipe yet or smooth my icing, but I really tried. Lol

Julie said…

Wow! You have come a long way! Such an inspiration to all of us novices!

Jenny said…

How fun! It proves that all anyone needs is practice and more practice. I love your cakes and videos. Thank you for sharing!!

Thank you so much for sharing your beginnings with us. I can recall my first class, better yet I can recall the first cake I tried to frost. It was from my Easy Bake Oven.
I love, love, love, your icing. Thanks for taking all the time (years) and perfecting it for us.

                                               courtneyscakes said…

And if those previous photos were not entertaining enough, I found even a few more. These are a little bit further down the road in my decorating career. You can see that I got bolder and braver as time went on!

This was done for my son during my star tip phase. I was too scared to try to ice it smooth, so I obviously thought this was a good idea at the time. Look at the left hand side of Pikachu; you can see the rows of stars. I failed to randomize the rows, LOL. This was the first time I transferred an image onto a cake. I took the image to Kinkos and had them blow it up to this size. I cut it out, and laid all the pieces on the icing to make an impression outline to follow. I thought I was hot stuff, and I do recall all of my neighborhood moms making over how great this cake was! HAHA!

Nothing was safe during my star tip phase. If it wasn’t moving, I covered it with stars. I am pretty sure I did this one with canned icing too. Might have been Wilton canned buttercream.

This was my first or second fondant cake. I saw a fondant cake in a magazine and knew I wanted to master that. I bought a box of Wilton fondant, read the directions on the back, and went for it. I used a contoured pan (easier to cover), no filling. Sadly piped royal icing lace points and silk flowers. Plastic Wilton turntable. I was on fire!

This was when I discovered colorflow. I guess I wanted to see how many royal icing things on sucker sticks I could jam into one cake without destroying it. Please help me.

This has got to be the worst cake of all time. Canned Betty Crocker frosting tinted puke green. Crappy borders and plastic plants! Yes folks, plastic ivy from the craft store! What in heck’s name was I thinking? This was for my hubby’s BD, for a family gathering, and I distinctly remember bursting with pride over this one. Somebody pray for me.