First Entry

Hi, my name is Lisa Smith, and this will be my online diary about my cake decorating. I am not a professional, and I don't make multiple cakes a week. However I really do enjoy baking (yes, from a box), and I really enjoy decorating. I took the first Wilton course to learn a few techniques to help me out, and from there I just like to improvise.

I like baking from a box instead of scratch because scratch cakes never seem to come out as moist. However my main excuse is that if I am about to spend a number of hours on a cake, I'd have a lot more fun focussing on the decorating than on the baking.

For a while, I tried using the Wilton 'class buttercream', but in my opinion, it really tasted awful and didn't have a very good texture either. I think it was all the shortening, but what do I know? However, I will use their huge tubs of premade buttercream. It is soft and spreads great, and is nice and tasty to boot.

So there you have it. I'll be posting pictures soon of cakes I have done in the past couple months, most are final products as I wasn't thinking blog at the time. While I do welcome feedback, I do want to point out again that I am not a professional, and ridiculing my cakes show more about who you are than my ability.

Thank you for reading!