So I told Lady Hiva if we ever need to have a second career,
we could open a one-stop-wedding-shop. We have a Cricut and do all kinds of
paper stuff, we do flowers, we do photos…and the newest on the list is cake
decorating!
Lady decided that she wanted to take a cake decorating class
that is offered at Michaels (we found it when we were there buying our sewing
machine to do our quilts…yes, we have gone full on domestic. PLEASE rescue us
if I put up a post about canning vegetables… LOL). Of course she wanted me to
go along and so we went!
The teacher was late and a bit erratic and unorganized, but
she was a cute little old lady so we forgave her. We took the class with 8
other people ranging from a 7th grader to mid-fifties. I wasn’t the
only guy either…the 7th grader’s dad also came. All of us wanted to
learn ‘the tricks of the trade’
As we got started, we found out that the Michaels worker
that signed us up forgot to give us “the list” of things we needed to bring to
be ready for the class. When we were supposed to get it out we realized we did
not have it…luckily so did some other people. We all scrambled out to get them.
They were so helpful and shared what they brought.
I realized we were in a class of serious people when it came to crafts. As we all talked about where
they bought their cake decorating tools one of the people said, “I bought mine
with a Michaels coupon for 50%” I was spared asking where they got the coupon
because someone else asked. One lady said, “Online, they have deals every week,
you just have to watch for them” and right after another lady pitched in, “They
have an APP for it, if you download it, it keeps you updated.” Oh wow!
We learned about tools and the basics like “You need to
pre-heat the oven before you bake a cake.” This is when I realized I take for
granted I was taught to cook at a young age. We then practiced our simple “Stars”
on cookies—that we borrowed from our friendly fellow student.
So for the next four weeks we will spend an hour at Michaels
learning how to decorate cakes (I really just want to skip to the Fondant portion…but
alas, you can’t skip a class! (What
was I thinking?)) Hopefully next week, we will have more ‘hands on’ activities.
Cake decorating classes are really worth it...shame you can't skip a lesson though :-)
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