Hey everyone, this blog post is going to look back on my journey of decorating cakes!

Outline of my Learning Project: 

Week 1: The Icing on the Cake

This post outline all my goal that i have for this course. This blog also goes over my learning project.

Week 2: The Crumb Coat

This week post goes over all the basic skills you need to decorate a cake like how to making icing, how to crumb coat, and how to decorate it with different piping tips.

Week 3: Practice makes Perfect 

This week, I play around with different piping tips and different techniques.

Week 4: Will it Workout?

This week I tried to see if i was able to do a cake icing technique on a cupcake.

Week 5: 9 Small Pumpkins 

This week I decorated a bunch of cupcakes to look like different pumpkins, as well finding a new social media app to teach me how to decorate.

Week 6: Learning from Tik Tok

This week, I used Tik Tok to help me learn how to decorate. I found a bunch of cool videos that helped me out!

Week 7: The Tik Tok Cake!

This week, I decorated a cake I found off Tik Tok that turned out pretty good. I also learned how to a new technique to make a Christmas tree out of icing.

Week 8: O Christmas Tree!

This week, I found a video of facebook to learn how to make the Christmas tree out of icing but in an easier way.

Week 9: The Final Cake

This week, I took all the skills and technique I have learned so far to make my final cake!

 

My Reflections:

I did not know how much time decorating cakes really take, especially when learning from scratch. I did struggle a lot with my learning project as it took a lot of time to decorate a cake. As i had to bake the cake, make the icing, do the crumb coating and wait for that to set and then finally decorate the cake. With being a busy student with school and other activities, I felt like I had no time to do this as well write a blog post afterwards about what i learned. I was just too tried to do this all in a day or a few day, so it took me a bit to actually post my learning project blogs. But after I complete decorating a cake, I was proud of myself well most of the time. After decorating cakes for a bit, I still don’t think they look the best as i still struggle  on the crumb coat. As I don’t understand how the videos I watch can make the icing that goes over the crumb coat looks so good and smooth. I was never able to achieve that look. But overall I am proud of myself when I look at the first cake I decorated to the last one, as there is a big differences on how they look.