Category: Learning Project

I learned so much in this class and I cannot wait to take all that I have learned into my future classroom. I created a slideshow on Canva and recorded a voice over for it. Check it out:

  I cannot believe this is my final learning project post. Over the past semester, I taught myself everything from whipping up the perfect buttercream to turning a round cake into a heart. Each week brought something new to learn, test, and let’s be honest…sometimes redo. I have enjoyed this journey so much. Looking back

Continue reading My Sweet Journey Wrapped Up

This week, I decided to step outside my comfort zone and try incorporating non-icing decorations into my cake designs. While I’ve been having so much fun mastering piping and vintage-style cakes, I wanted to step up my work by adding a new element, bows! I’ve seen gorgeous cakes with bows , and I wanted to

Continue reading A Bow-Tiful Cake!

For my 9th learning project post, I decided to take my learning in a new direction not just with cake decorating but also with video editing! Since I’ve been sharing my cake decorating journey, I thought it would be fun to create a TikTok video showing the process. To do this, I used CapCut. It

Continue reading Creating a Cake Decorating Video with CapCut

My learning project journey has been such a fun and rewarding experience! While I’ve learned a lot from TikTok and online recipes, I wanted to try a new way of learning. I went on facebook and I joined a Facebook group called Cake Decorating Tips and Baking Recipes. I figured the best way to start

Continue reading Exploring Cake Decorating with a New Online Community

If you had told me four months ago that I’d be decorating cakes for fun, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. But here I am with a beautiful vintage heart cake sitting in front of me, and I owe it all once again to a TikTok tutorial! I’ve learned so many things from TikTok before,

Continue reading From Round to Heart: My First Cake Reshaping Adventure

This week, I took my cake decorating to the next level by focusing on color! After practicing piping techniques last week, I wanted to explore how color could enhance the vintage aesthetic. Instead of sticking to an all white palette, I chose a soft pink base with piping details in pastel pink, lavender, and mint

Continue reading From Simple to Magical: Playing with Color in Cake Decorating

If you’ve ever fallen down the TikTok rabbit hole of beautifully piped cakes, you know the feeling. It starts with, “That looks easy!” and quickly turns into, “Wait, how did they do that?!” That was me this past week when I decided to attempt a four-layer cake with decorative piping. It was a rollercoaster of

Continue reading My First Fancy Cake: A TikTok-Inspired Adventure in Piping

Hello!!! This week has been an exciting exploration into new techniques, flavors, and textures. For this week’s experiment, I decided to try a recipe that blends a classic dessert component with my love for creative cake designs. After some research, I stumbled upon this recipe on Cooking with Carlee, titled “Easy Pudding Cake Filling”. The recipe

Continue reading Whipped to Perfection: The Cheesecake Filling Saga

For this week’s learning project, I explored a new tool to document my cake decorating progress: Canva’s video editor! I’ve used Canva before for designing graphics and worksheets, but this was my first time trying out its video editing features. Since I wanted to compile clips of my cake decorating journey in a visually appealing

Continue reading From Batter to Beauty: Documenting My Cake Decorating Journey with Canva!