Where to begin...

Oh, yes. I remember it was about 5 years ago when my oldest daughter was getting married. My middle daughter and I thought we had a great and wonderful idea – bake the wedding cake! Needless to say, that idea was nixed pretty quickly. There was no way we were going to create the ‘pièce de résistance’ for her wedding!

Well just a couple of months ago, my middle daughter became engaged, and in a year’s time she will be going down the aisle. Guess what great idea I came up with again – I would like to bake and decorate the wedding cake! Ha! Well, to my surprise she said yes... OMG how exciting for me! I can't wait to start but, where do I begin??? Oh well, I have a year to perfect my skills…

Well, the first thing I did was take a Wilton decorating course. Now that was fun!  Didn't matter what the cake tasted like at this point. I just had great time learning to pipe icing, work with sugar gum paste making flowers and other items like butterflies. It was my idea of a good time!

The first attempt for making a cake finally arrived. I had my old, used, bent up cake pans – two 8" by 2", used a box cake mix, and the results? Meh! I thought after all the YouTube research I did and taking classes this would be a no brainer!

Gosh, totally wrong.

The leveling and torteing of the cake really gave me a lot of trouble. First off, the leveler I bought couldn't cut through my cake. Apparently the outer crust was over baked, so the wire couldn't penetrate it! Second, it was had such a high dome shape it looked exactly like the Coneheads from Saturday Night Live.

It really needed to be leveled. Ugh...had to do it by hand, and because I’m not the most patient person, I just gave it a good turn on the turntable and whisked my bread knife through it. Well... instead of being domed, it was now flat and lopsided. Oh well, they say frosting can hide anything...