Beckermet WI (and others) were invited by Keekle WI to a Cake Decorating Talk. As you can guess, this floated my boat. I attended with three other Beckermet WI Ladies. The competition was a cake slice. The talk was given by Ruth Hall aka Mrs Vicar from Mrsvicarcakes.com in ?Penrith. I'm glad I went.
Ruth demonstrated how to decorate a cake using fondant icing (the ready to roll stuff, I'm not sure if it's called the same in the US). To stick the icing on, instead of using a jam, Ruth used a fudge type topping, a pre-made one, a Betty Crocker one. I've never used fondant icing, and was inspired to. When I'm feeling in the mood, I think if I'm not in the right frame of mind then I might not get it right, it's one of those things for me.
Once the icing was on, Ruth showed how to put spots on the cake. Again this was an easier than I thougth technique. Simple but effective. Then she showed how to put an icing ribbon around the cake to finish it off. The finished cake was then raffled off. I have never wanted to win a raffle as much as then!
Ruth also gave a slide show of some of the cakes she had made. Amazing. Along the lines of 'Ace of Cakes'. I would love to have a go at the molding of figures etc. Ruth said that if you were anygood with plasticine and play doh, then you should take easily to this sort of cake decorating. Perhaps I may have a practice with this and start small.
Refreshments were served - tea and a selection of home-made cakes, an open sandwich and a sausage roll. Needless to say I didn't win the cake, otherwise I would be unbearable, really unbearable! However I did win a chrysanthemum plant. And I won the cake slice competition. I entered a 1910 silver plated cake & pie slice.
So watch this space, to see when I am brave enough to try this decorating technique, I will at some point!
