First Post – Cake Piping Class and Buttercream Frosting

Hello, everyone!  This is my first post on this blog, so there are a couple things you should know as we get started.

First, I am a completely amateur baker.  I have no professional training whatsoever.  Second, I am not good at improvising.  I think this goes along with the first point; I cannot make up my own recipes.  I generally have to follow some other recipe somewhere and I don’t know enough about baking science to try to improvise.

Finally, this blog is meant to be a diversion for me to pass time while my husband is deployed.  It may continue after he gets back in early 2017, but we shall see.  With that said, I don’t expect that anyone other than some friends and my mom will probably ever read it, but if you are a stranger and happen to come across this, I would love for you to leave a comment to say hello!  Now, onto the real stuff.

I took a cake piping class today!  It was the first cooking/baking class I have ever taken, so it was very exciting.   Continue reading