The Sugar High Cakery

I was asked by Brooklyn's Girl Scout Troop to come in and give a cake decorating lesson. I suggested that we do it right before Mother's Day so the girls could take a cake home to Mom. I selected a basic design that every girl could create. The catch was there was only 2 hours to complete 17 cakes. READY? GO!

I baked all 17 two-layer 8" cakes at home. I made upwards of 30 pounds of fondant, and a massive amount of butter cream. Once I got to the school, I set up stations: fondant rolling and decorating. Due to the time, I had to fill and crumb coat all of the cakes.



I showed the girls how to roll the fondant and apply it to the cake; minding the folds and air bubbles. I then used a 6 pedal flower cookie cutter to mark 2 flowers on the cake. They were instructed to fill in the flowers with a star tipped piping bag with the color of their choice. I had premade bags of green, yellow, pink, orange and purple. Anything extra that they wanted i.e. shell boarders, bows, stems...I piped on for them. My only rule was they had to write the message (I wanted them to do that part on their own.)

Here are some pictures to the marathon cake decorating class...