As this course comes to an end, it’t time to reflect on how I helped my classmates. I tried my best to support my classmates on different plant forms but i only stayed on twitter, commenting on blog post or texting and talking to my peers who i already know in this class. The one app I did not use at all was Discord, as I always forgot about it. Its not an app I have on my phone so…
Another week, another cake to be decorated. For this blog, I wanted to look at another social platform and see if I could find a good video on how to decorate a cake. So I pick Facebook to look at, I knew I would be able to find lots of good decorating videos on her as people are always sharing different food videos. The fist thing I did was look up Christmas cupcake (as we are decorating a cupcake instead…
For my last time decorating a cake for my learning project, I wanted to add everything i have learned so far. I was on twitter looking for inspiration when i come across this cake. This cake had Icing Christmas tree on it, and some icing Christmas trees on the side i have never done before, but i was up for the Challenge! This is the cake I will be trying to make! The first step was doing the crumb coat,…
Last week for my learning project, I went onto Tik Tok to see if I was able to learn skill and information on decorating cakes. I was able to find lots of helpful videos of all different type. From learning how to crumb coat better, a link to someone blog with lots of help tips on decorating cakes, and I found a cake I wanted to try and recreate. Here is the cake I will be remaking! @stephcarr.5 A great…
Today in my learning project, i’m going to see if I can learn new skills about cake decorating on the popular app Tik Tok. I use the Tik Tok to watch videos everyday, but I have not tried to see if I could learn skills from it. The first thing I did was search up “Cake decorating for beginners” there was a bunch of different videos that came up. So I started to watch a bunch of them, as each…
This week, I was home for Thanksgiving so i decided to make cupcakes for my family. I first want onto Pinterest to find inspiration on how I want to decorate them. I use Pinterest a lot to find inspiration and to learn new skills from. Pinterest is a good place to find so many different things, which helps come up with new ideas that you might have not thought of. After going on Pinterest for a bit, i made a…
Last week blog post i practice my piping skills. I wanted to try different ways i could pipe and decorate a cupcakes/cakes to make them look different. I went onto Pinterest and found a new way to decorate a cake, but i only had cupcakes to use. So i wanted to see if i could do this new icing technique on a cupcake and to try out my new piping skills as well. The technique I found, was a modern…
This week I wanted to practice my piping skills, as piping with icing is a big part in decorating a cake. I did not do anything crazy with my piping but just worked with some of the different piping tips. Watch my time-lapse below to see me practicing piping. The apps I explored was using time-lapse and iMovie. I have used iMovie before to crate videos, but I wanted to step up my game with the editing. For my time-lapse…
And so the journey begins! This week i wanted to decorate a cake with only knowing a little bit of how to decorate a cake, to see how well i can actually decorate one without any practice. To start off, i made sure i have all the right ingredients and materials to make the cake, the icing and to decorate it as well. I first baked my cake (cake from a box) in the afternoon so it would be cool…
Welcome to my journey on learning how to decorate cakes! I always wanted to learn to decorate cakes, so when I had to pick a skill to learn I thought this was the perfect opportunity. I have made cakes before and somewhat decorated them but I want to learn how to make them look more professional. To start my journey I had to buy supplies to be able to make the cakes, I bought the basic things like 3 cake…