I need a part-time job. I’m thinking about finding a bakery to work at. ^^ Of course, being around sweets would be awesome and delicious, but I want to learn more about baking. I’m a pretty good baker, but I want to be better at creating recipes and decorating. I have friends that went to college for pastry but they’re across the country. I could learn by just doing it at home, but it would be nice seeing how a real bakery works and stuff. Ever watch Ace of Cakes on the Food Network? That would be a sweet place to work at for me. Working with gumpaste, fondant, etc.

I worked with gumpaste for the first time last week. It was alittle like working with play-doh, only it’s stickier and dries out quicker.

The grass took me forever because I didn’t have a specific decorating tip to make it easier (the one that has a bunch of holes in it). I had a tip that had two holes, but didn’t have the decorating bags. So I just used ziploc bags with a corner snipped off for piping. Yup, I piped the grass leaves one by one. Took me about 30 minutes to do a full cupcake. Lol. The ones with a gumpaste disk I only filled with grass halfway. You can tell where I began to get lazy with the grass by seeing long bent leaves. Lol. I used regular frosting from the grocery store. Vanilla with food coloring. I added more confectioners’ sugar (powdered) to the green frosting to make it a little stiffer.
The “happy” disk was sticking up but decided to fall on me. The dimples on the golfballs were achieved with my nail art dotters (sanitized of course). The black handles of the golf clubs were painted with my nail art craft brushes. The paint I used was a bit of regular vanilla frosting, food coloring, and thinned out with some milk.
The cake itself was just from a box. I knew I was going to spend alot of time decorating, so I didn’t bother making it from scratch.
Eventually I want to get real cake decorating tools.

Here’s golf cupcakes I did a few weeks before I made the ones with the gumpaste. Gumpaste looks way nicer and cleaner. These were still cute though. ^^

Cupcakes I made a little over year ago for fun. Piping is shaky, but came out pretty cute too. The Heart You is like my signature. I always do that design.

Such noob work.
I will get better!

My brother & friend got me this book for my last year birthday.

Love it! ^^ I used to take baths while reading this. Lol. Great tips and real cute designs in here.

I want a cupcake now…

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