Fabulously Fierce

Yup, you read it right, this is the last cake for my final cake decorating course….I’m done!! That doesn’t mean I won’t be making cakes for fun in the future, and I’ll keep posting pics of them here.

Let me start off with a warning, BASKETWEAVE IS NOT FOR PEOPLE WITH CARPEL TUNNEL! I haven’t had a flair up in years but after 30 minutes of basketweave piping last night I was in pain, pain, pain. I woke up with my hand swollen up like a baseball mitt! But I endured – it took me 2 hours just to finish the sides.

I started off with this interesting oval shaped cake (cake mix again, the baking part is still not my forte) and applied a crumb coat of light blue icing to the sides and a generous portion to the top.

My icing skills are starting to improve, even though I still had a little bit of a fight with this one.

I took my little blue egg shaped cake to class and began the daunting task of piping the basket weave. Like I said, it took me for-freakin-ever to make it all the way around the entire cake, but I was quite pleased with how it turned out. Although I can easily identify the exact point in which my hand started to give up on me

I ran out of time in class so I had to finish the rest of my cake at home while watching Survivor (kind of fitting).  I added the rope border around the top and a shell border around the bottom.  I think it looks purdy! I’ve got skillz, yo.

After all my piping was done I added on all the royal icing flowers I had made throughout this course, and a few gumpaste daisies, giving it the look of a spring flower basket overflowing with blooms (not really my personal style, but hey, it looks pretty).

Lastly, I piped some green leaves around the flowers and *dum da da dum* VOILA!  My spring basketweave cake was done.

And now that I’ve been looking at it at work all day, it’s time to cut into it and enjoy. Nom

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