Week two: Thursdays with Cake Crumb Girl

                  Hello everybody! Today is my second Thursday of  cake decorating with my Nana.

The cake's in the oven. I split the batter in half again, just like I did last week.

Now it's time for me to go ahead and make some icing. As I was going through one of my Nana's books I came across a stiff consistency icing. It's worth a shot. I still haven't found a good icing recipe for roses yet, but as I said in my last post, it's also being affected by the warm, Summer heat.

I made two batches of Nana's icing again and one batch of the stiff consistency. Funny thing...

I ran out of crisco! So I had to call Nana to ask if she could bring me a cup when she came. Note to self: Always check on your supply of ingredients before starting. ;)

Nana has an excellent practice sheet set. Last week I did odds and ends of them, this week I planned a bit, so I'll be doing each sheet for lesson one (4 sheets)

Sheet one: Row one was a bit tricky, that was the only one I did absolutely terrible on.

Me, working on sheet number two.

Sheet two: I was really happy with this one. (Simply because, at the beginning of the day, I couldn't do stars at all! Now look where I am!)

Sheet three: Getting better at curves!

Sheet four: I'm really liking the lettering. ;)

I went ahead and put mine and Nana's frosting bags in the fridge while we ate lunch.

I used the stiff consistency for roses today and sticking them in the fridge every once and a while helped a lot. Especially since we didn't have the AC on today.

Me and Nana working on our weekly mini cakes. :)

Nana's end result.

Close up of Nana's cake.

My end result.

Close up of my cake.

I still have a long way to go with roses, but this is defiantly an improvement since last Thursday!

Have a great week!

-Cake Crumb Girl