My niece wants to learn to be a cake decorator, so she spent the day with me this week. I used to teach Wilton Cake Decorating Classes at our local Jo-Ann Fabrics store, and it was certainly fun to dust off my icing skills.

We made flowers from buttercream, gum paste, and fondant. Practiced basket weave, swags, stringwork, and shell borders. Made two double batches of icing and used it all! One of the cakes we decorated went across the street to the church for a community dinner. That was the pretty cake! The remaining “Franken-cake” was already half eaten by our kids when I remembered to take this picture. You get the idea. What’s more fun than playing with icing then eating your creation?