Thursday, Aril 23, 2009

On Thursday I went to Dianes house to decorate my two layer cake. We started with a base layer and put a coat of white icing. To do this the we placed the 8 inch cake on a platter that rotates making it easier to decorate. Then, I put the smaller cake (6 inches) on to a different platter and put its white coat on it. Once we had this completed we placed the dow rods into the center of the 8 inch cake so that the 6 inch cake would not sink down in to the other cake.

I placed the small cake on top of the other one and started to mix the colored icing to do the decorations. The way you do this is take the white icing and add whatever color you want to it and then mix it until there are no more dark lines of coloring in the icing.

After the icing is mixed you place it into the bags so that you can decorate the cake. I made pink and purple icing for this cake. I put a border around the bottom of each cake and then made circles all over it, on the sides and top of the cake.

It took a while to complete this cake because the icing had to harden before the decorations could be finished. Once it was completed we placed the cake on a piece of cardboard and then loosly covered it with plastic wrap. And we were finished for the day!