In January of 2009, I took a beginners’ cake decorating course at Michael’s Craft Store.  I highly recommend it and in my experience, you really only need to take the first course.  Any new techniques after that can easily be self-taught.  You can use these techniques to decorate cookies and cupcakes too.  Class was only once a week for a month but there was surprisingly a lot of homework.  I [half] joked every week about being really stressed out about my cake decorating class.  🙂  Each week you had to go to class with a cake and batches of differently textured and coloured icing.  So I took this opportunity to test 3 different yellow cake recipes.  The link to the yellow cake recipe that I liked the most is here. Note that the Wilton buttercream frosting recipe does not taste good, because it was designed for the purpose of practicing techniques in any climate (ie. to hold up in humidity).

Read the rest of this entry »