Cake Decorating Class This Weekend!

I can’t wait to teach a class on Doll Cakes this weekend because it was with a doll cake that my obsession with cake decorating really 

began, now nearly six years ago.  My niece Madison, who was turning five, saw a photo of a doll cake that had been made for her grandmother’s birthday when her grandmother was a little girl.  (Apparently doll cakes were all the rage in the ’50s!)  Well, Miss Madison had to have one, too, and I was determined to make her one.  I spent hours and hours (and hours and hours) watching a YouTube video on how to pipe icing decorations, and then I spent hours and hours (and hours and hours) practicing in the evenings after work.  I went through batches and batches of buttercream as I learned all the necessary techniques—ruffles, borders, and even roses—and finally Madison’s fairy princess cake came to life, wings and all.

Of course Madison’s little sister had to have one for her own birthday a few months later; hers was purple and white.  Over the years the cakes have gotten more and more elaborate; now I’ve made over 100 of them for friends and friends of friends, each one just as unique and special as the little girls for whom they were made.  And it looks like I’ll be busy making a few more in the coming months.  My friend Lisa mentioned me to the moms in the Golden Gate Mother’s Club and new orders are pouring in.  Perhaps I’ll have to hire some of my own students as assistants after this weekend!

If you’re here in the Bay Area and would  like to learn how to make this cake yourself, please join us on Saturday.  There’s one space left in the class.  Email me for more info at miri at lauracarmen dot com.