My First Cake

For my first ever "decorated" cake, I did the Rainbow cake. It's the first option in the Hobby Lobby Buttercream I course, and everybody makes it. It was my first time mixing frosting colors. (Question to self: is there a difference between frosting and icing? Can I call myself a cake decorator if I don't know the difference? I digress.) For my first time, I was pretty pleased!



As I quickly learned, one of the hardest parts of cake decorating is the actual cakes. I consider it the canvas and the frosting the "paint"...and it's hard to have a pretty painting on a lumpy canvas. I've gotten a lot better at this in the past year, but it was definitely a struggle at first.

Note that my slipper-wearing teacher did the cloud on the left...see how pretty it looks? Mine is the globbier one on the right.