Under Pressure

After three Wilton Cake Decorating classes under my belt, I have begun dreaming about decorating!!  Does that mean I'm having fun or am I under pressure?  Why, you ask.

  For tonight's class, we have to bring cupcakes with filling of our choice and icing to decorate them.  I am relying on my new cupcake book that I won.  
 This I am looking forward to!  This is called fun!!!

However, the pressure is beginning to build.

Rhia's birthday was in January so she has to wait until next year.  She, my oldest grand-daughter, is the oldest of the three sisters.  I lucked out.

Kree is turning seven the beginning of March and had requested a chocolate cake with white frosting decorated with one flower.   The middle child, she never asks for much.  Her party is Saturday.  

Tess is turning six the beginning of April and has requested a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting decorated with a picture of her, her name, a picture of her best friend and her name.  I was told that they should be "holding hands and in the other hands holding flowers and that Shelby's hair is brown and to her shoulders."  She also wants the cake to be surrounded by cupcakes.  She is the youngest of the three sisters.

My son also has a birthday mid- March and although he originally wanted a "rain-forest" cake, he has changed his mind and wants something that his daughter, Mia (age 4) will get excited over.  He asked me to make a "princess cake...you know Mom, one with pink and purple flowers that Mia will like."  So, I'm making a "Princess Cake" with a Barbie doll in the middle!  Heaven help me!!!  However, my son is easy to please...:)

The Pres also has a birthday in March.  He doesn't really like cake but he's getting one anyway...something with pineapple filling he said.  

Then there's four birthdays in April...holy crap!

My daughter's birthday isn't until July.  She wants a cake decorated with "bouquets of roses"!!  She is the oldest of my two children and loves to put me under pressure!!  LOL!  

This is only the beginning, I fear!!

Here's the plan...

study my Wilton books

PRACTICE

PRACTICE

PRACTICE

Oh, one more thing.

As of this writing I have seven containers of icings of various consistencies and colors in the frig, a dozen chocolate cupcakes ready for transport tonight, a chocolate layer cake torted and ready to ice, a yellow cake, also torted and ready to ice.  Today is only March 7th and I am under pressure!

And you thought I was going to say

CALL THE BAKERY!!!

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Friendship Friday

(a pic I took after class)
Some were filled with a fluffy white creme
and others with a light cocoa creme filling
and they are DELICIOUS!!!!