Course 3 Of My Cake Decorating Class

I finished course 3!
It always go's by so fast!

This course was very fun, and definitely the harder one of the 3 courses!

Lesson 1, we learned cornelli lace (a continual squiggly line), bead border, brush embroidery on fondant flowers, single drop strings, multiple drop strings, overlapping drop strings, ruffle border, and ruffle garland.

Lesson 2, we learned how to work with fondant, the fondant rose, and how to make a fondant ribbon and bow tie.
(it's supposed to look like a present, but there wasn't enough time in class, and I didn't have enough fondant. So, it's a cake with a bow:)

Lesson3, we learned how to make the following flowers in royal icing: Easter lilly, poinsettia, petunia, and morning glory.
Lesson 4, we made a 2 teird cake!!
We had to bring two, 2 layered cakes covered in fondant, and our roses that we made at home, to class.
Our teacher told us we could switch out the fondant roses, with either royal icing, or butter cream icing roses. I didn't like the roses we learned in class, so I looked up videos on-line, and taught myself how to mold them by hand.I liked the way they came out, but it was time consuming, and I had to make 30 roses! So, I decided to make them out of royal icing instead.
In class, we assembled our cake, and decorated it with the roses we brought from home.(my friend Julie and I with our final cakes. Julie did a really cool Halloween cake!)
I was in a rush to get home that night, so I waited until I got home to put on the leaves, and I also removed some roses, because it looked cluttered to me.
The final product...
I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I got so much more out of this then just learning how to decorate cakes!

During this course, I also learned:

~Not to give up. The day of our final class, I was up sick the night before and didn't get much sleep, and I still had an upset stomach. I was not physically or emotionally up for the challenge of making 30 roses, and getting my cakes ready for class. I really wanted to throw in the towel that morning, but managed to move forward. Then when it came time to put the fondant on my cake, it was completely not working, and it kept ripping. At that point, I decided I was giving up, and I wasn't going to finish the course. I sat down on the couch, completely frustrated. I stared at my unfinished cake on the counter and a voice in my head kept telling me not to give up. I wasn't on the couch for more then 3min, when I got up, and gave it another try. I got everything done, and I couldn't believe I did it! I felt really proud, and happy I didn't give up.

~I grew a deeper appreciation for my husband. He helped me out a lot the last day, and I would not have been able to finish without him.

~To believe in myself. I really didn't think I could get the last class completed, but I kept telling myself "You can do this Brittany. You can totally do this!"

~I learned that through our struggles, come lessons and rewards, IF we allow it to. The last day of class was a huge struggle for me. It was filled with many emotions, and lots of tears. By persevering, I made it to the end, with lessons learned, and a beautiful cake to show for it! Although it would have been a completely different outcome, if I let my struggles bring me down.
Yes, I took that valuable life lesson from a cake decorating class!

Course 4 starts in January...Can't wait!