Hello and welcome to my beginnings

Hello and welcome to Beverly Bakes. Although I'm doing cake decorating, I'll also be doing other things that are baked. Thus, the name, Beverly Bakes.

News of my latest cake

Although I haven't done a decorative cake for a while, I did have the munchies one day and had some bananas on-hand. So, I came up with a banana cake recipe. No, not banana bread. I'm talking about an actual cake. I think I'm going to tweak it a bit and add some moisture in it. I'll probably use apple sauce or yogurt. Who knows? I might even try something a little unusual. I'm also working on a pumpkin cake recipe. I know, that's been done before too, but I do like to put my own little twist on things.

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Poppie's in the Field Cake

I loved making this JOKE cake for one of my friends. My sister helped me make this. She had practiced making roses when my mom took cake decorating and in this cake she learned to make 3D trees and made props in a fondant/gum paste combination.

The JOKE was that the fondant and decorating covered a piece of styrofoam. It was hilarious watching him try to cut it.

Latest Cake

Here is a picture of my latest cake. This is Picnic by the Lake.

Wilton's Cake Decorating-Course #2

I've completed the second course and only had to make one cake. The entire three weeks previously I had to make royal icing flowers. These were then saved and put on cake the last week. This is also when I learned to do the basket weave technique and a 'rope' border. I had so much fun doing this course. I took my cake to a congregation picnic. Nobody wanted to cut in it at first. But, once it was started, the cake went fast.

I'm trying to add images (so I can share the pictures of my cakes), but I'm just not having any success with it. I may have to go to one of my online photo programs and work with it there. But, then I can shre.

I have a week off and then I'm on to Fondant & Gumpaste! Yippie! I can't wait.