Cake #1

I completed my first cake as part of the Wilton's Cake Decorating Course at Michaels Arts and Crafts. I enjoyed using the new tools and techniques I learned in the class. I used the Wilton's 8"x3" cake pan and bake easy strips. The cake baked almost perfectly level and had a nice brown colour. The cake level was wonderful to use and made torting the cake very easy. I also used the parchment paper smoothing technique to get the icing to lay flat.

I made a carrot cake and filled it with a cream cheese icing. To cover the cake, I tried the class recommended shortening based icing with butter flavor added, but I really didn't like the flavor so I tossed it out. The artificial flavor smelled like microwave popcorn. So I made the cake icing with butter. The cake is ivory and not pure white because of the colour added to butter. I did find an organic butter with no colour added and I think I will try this the next time I want to make a white cake to see if I can get a pure white cake without having to use shortening. The only draw back is that it costs twice as much as regular butter.

I only had three colours to work with and no event to create the cake for so I decided to use a cookie cutter imprint for inspiration and ended up with my cake...