Its been quite a while! 2014 sailed in and feels like it keeps sailing by. It's already April. I'm in my 5th term now at school. I've completed over half of my program. I completed a culinary course last term which was a lot of fun! Learned some new techniques and recipes.
I participated in Wake Tech's American Culinary Federation Competition. I made a single layer celebration cake. It was my first "real" cake that I've made. I got to work with fondant and really liked how it eventually came out.
the beginnings of my cake! Covered in fondant! That was quite a feat, especially never having done it before! 
I started by placing half of the circles on the bottom of the cake so that I could get the balls to stick! 
It took forever to get all of the circles on! But I was definitely happy with the final product! 
The premise of my cake was a "spring celebration" so I added tulips to the top.
The final product at the competition. I also added flowers made out of royal icing because I needed a third technique.
Overall, I felt that I did an amazing job for my first cake. Obviously there were mistakes and they were definitely pointed out by the judges but I took this as a learning opportunity. I had a lot of fun making the cake and decorating it. I enjoyed the experience and would definitely consider doing it again!
How it's on to an Umi-Zoomi birthday cake for someone's child! :)
