One...Two...Three...Haaa, Haaa, Haaa!

Actually kinda glad cake class is over. I understand and appreciate why they want a cake brought to every class, but frankly, I am just as happy using parchment paper to make flowers and borders. I did that the last class. I was the only one without a cake and perfectly comfortable with that! I got all the practice I needed and didn't have to take home a cake to mess up my girlish figure. Our instructor says she takes her practice cakes to the Firehouse for the firemen to eat and that's a great idea.

So I went with the Count from Sesame Street for my character cake. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. I thought my hand would cramp up and my stars would be un-uniform, but I think he turned out great. I was a little frustrated with my instructor though. She tends to take over when you ask a question, and instead of letting you do it and learn it yourself...and I blame her for the ugly parts of this cake. She would go too fast and wasn't very careful - I suppose she had the "here's the general idea" approach to teaching, which wasn't helpful to the students. She globbed on icing for the eyes and didn't follow the actual cake impression...it was horrifying to someone who is really trying to make her cake look good and didn't even get the chance to try. Anyway, I would love to take another cake class but at a different place. I didn't feel like she did a good job teaching us flowers, which was the last class, although I know a lot of it is just practice.

So Count came home with me and I surprised Josh since it's his favorite Sesame Street character! Count was probably my least favorite tasting. He was spice cake with tons of black (translate=bitter) icing...yuck!! But he was darn cute, and isn't that what really counts?!