Pimp a Pie
This week I am going to start to work on a table tent for my little girl, but last week I had another little adventure in my own kitchen.
Pimp a pie or the usual name cake decorating, had my attention for a long time already. Ever since I was a kid I wanted to be a pastry-cook. Nothing came true of those kids dreams, mainly because I saw that more as fun then as work and to get up at 4 o’clock to bake my goods, just for fun was not what I had in mind LOL. But pastry always kept looking very attractive to me as something I would like to try my hands on. Cake decorating is a part of that and one of the main things I like about pastry-cooks job.
Cake decorating has come up more popular in the last ten years, especially the last few years it has come more and more within reach of people like me. With my kitchen now being the way I like with enough storage space, a new oven, a large table etc etc, my pastry-cook feelings started itching again. I kinda wanted to try it on my own but didn’t really had the guts to since I don’t have experience with it and having to buy all the tools and things can get a little expensive too. Now it happens that my Aunt, gives courses in cake decorating. She doesn’t even live that far away from me so I signed up for a cake decorating day course. I was really looking forward to that day but unfortunately the day It took place I felt sick as a dog. I woke up with a migraine and had to cancel the course. She gives a course twice a month so it would be simple to sign up for another day. But of course every time something comes in between. My trip to Scotland for example.
In Scotland at Tesco I found some of the materials I would need for the cakes for a reasonable low pricing, so I bought cake filling, fondant and color paste. Back in Holland I started looking to buy the tools I would need and at how to’s at cake decorating sites. I bought some things on Ebay, web shops, supermarket, and a local cooking shop nearby. I bought a small pack of fondant extra so I could try modeling little roses. It was not that easy and it took me a few tries but after not too long trying my first rose was made. Of course it was not the most pretty rose and I still needed to improve a lot but I got it going. Overcome my fear and just did it.
Now last week for mothers day I wanted to try baking the cake biscuits to try cut it and put fondant around it. I have a very small round cake tin I used for that so I could try a few times. The first one kinda failed but it tasted good. So I tried another. that one came out pretty good but was very small I thought so I bake another and change he settings on my oven a little bit. That one didn’t came out so well either so I tried another one. And that one came out okay just like the second one I made so I decided to work with those two. I let them cool down and let them rest for a day. Then last saturday evening me and my daughter where going to decorate them. Just so I could get the hang of it. Well it was a success. I had put Vanilla butter cream and red fruit jelly as filling . I think my first attempt of cake decorating was a success. The taste was good and the cakes looked cute. So my next project is goign to be a bigger cake! . Oh yeah of course I have pictures of our two little decorated cakes! Here they are. This one my daughter made. She had a hard time getting an idea of what she wanted to make and could not really get any idea so she just made this. I think it looks just great. Very nice colors and flower shapes with a pattern.
I embossed the flowers a little bit and made cutout flowers too. I wish you could not see the powder sugar I have used so the fondant would not get sticky. But those little tricks I probably will learn along the path of my cake decorating adventures. So after this great finish its back to the bus of adventures and the next stop will be the table tent for Anarosa.