My first cake decorating class!
Yesterday, as a treat I went to a cake decorating class in Putney. The class was on how to decorate with chocolate!!
It was such a fun experience, we were in a small room at the back of a bakery with everything we needed right in front of us. I learnt everything from covering a cake with white chocolate paste to making beautiful beading and yummy dark chocolate roses!!
The teacher was excellent! She was very clear in her explanations and helped me when I struggled. Working with chocolate paste is far trickier than working with sugar or modelling paste, it can’t be worked too much as the heat from our hands made it melt far too quickly and apparently, I have very HOT HANDS!!
Everything on my cake was chocolate.. and it was BELGIAN CHOCOLATE!! The roses, the beads, the fans, the cake… all glorious chocolate!!
Here is the final product!!
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My Chocolate cake with dark chocolate roses and leaves, strawberry, orange and white chocolate fans and covered in white chocolate paste.
The back of the cake with more chocolate roses
Side view
With Erica, the teacher with her much better looking cake
I was a bit nervous carrying the cake home as I had to go on a 20 minute train ride home during rush hour! I was practically hugging my cake all the way home and it got home fine!! The only casualty was the top of one of my chocolate shards broke off but that was fine!!
- With my precious cake safely home!
I didn’t have the heart to slice my cake last night because I spent the whole day working on it. I just stared at it lovingly as it sat on the coffee table until bedtime.
Today however was a different story. After swimming 20 laps at the gym, I was FAMISHED and the cake was far too delicious to ignore any longer. I did emit a little scream when I made the first cut though!!
Sliced open!
The first bite was heavenly! The chocolate cake had three layers of sponge and inbetween each layer was the yummiest filling. All feelings of regret about cutting up my beautiful cake was gone!! It was just far too scrumptious!!
I will definitely make this cake.. again and again and again and again!
dang luv it luv it!!!!! nyummy!!!!!! you think you cn do dat bila u blk cni?
The beligian chocolate paste is quite hard to make, will try to find recipes on line.
I have also been on a course at Cakes4Fun in Putney and it was great. They have a huge range of courses on their website and more coming up in the New Year. If you sign up to their news letter on the website you will get news of all their new courses. http://www.cakes4fun.co.uk
Your cake just looks wonderful, I am going to have a look at some more courses myself now!
Good luck to all you budding cake makers. X