Recently I was talking with a friend about a girls night out and we discovered that we both had wanted to take cake decorating classes, but had never done it.  So we decided to forgo our original plan for a girls night out and take a cake decorating class instead.  (And get 4 girls nights out instead of one in the process!)  And with two classes down in class 1 we've already signed up for class 2 next month.  Bring on the girls time out!  So let's just say there will be some cake to eat around our house for the next couple of months.  :-)

Here is my "first" cake.  Not my first cake ever, but my first from class.  We were to do a character cake pan (I don't own one) or we could do a rainbow cake (or find any coloring page to use).  I went with something I found and then added stems and a bow freehand.  The colors aren't quite what I'd originally planned, but apparently neither my friend or I are very good at estimating how much icing to color just yet.  So we icing bags to use up colors.  And this is what I ended up with.

On the inside it is a chocolate fudge cake.  YUM!  So yummy in fact that last night after dinner little man ate a piece.  I mean really ate.  As in asked for another piece, ate.  I've never seen him take more than a single bite of cake so I think it is safe to say he liked it. 

Next week will be cupcakes.  And if I get it together half a cake recipe will be for the cupcakes and the other half will be for a round cake that will go into the freezer for a future class. 

Oh, and I should mention that our daughter loves that I am taking this class.  Of course I need to hide my class book or she keeps finding things she'd like to add to her order for a birthday cake.  Hopefully in the next month I'll have enough knowledge to make her birthday cake!  :-)