CUPCAKE
CLASS
- From Pittsburg, Napa Valley, Europe, and LA with two instructors from China and Russia...
- we were ready for global communications,
- we were ready to bring peace to the world,
- we were ready to apply icing to cake.
- They had:
- 2 Cupcakes
- Plastic plate
- Small black plastic container
- candy (green mellon candy, candy dots, long black sprinkles, and 2 Smarties)
- Frosting tip #8, frosting bag, and frosting
- Laid out on the table under layers of plastic wrap.
- After we had all washed our hands we were deemed clean enough to remove the layer of protection.
- A chocolate and Vanilla cupcake sat staring at me.
- I’m not a frosting person.
- I know this means I also have green skin and scales, but it’s not my thing.
- Meaning these cupcakes sitting there with nothing between me and them were in serious danger.
- Maybe I could just decorate the plate and no one would notice?
- But the teacher saved me from self-destruction and started instruction.
- “Put your cupcake upside down and cut it in half.”
- We had sharp little knifes for this.
- I felt honored that they trusted me with such a weapon.
- But then again they didn’t know me.
- I resisted the urge to hold it like a pirate sword and shout “Argg, hand over all the cake and no one gets hurt.”
Then they had me cut it like an A. I obviously do
not know what an A looks like because I cut it like this.
I was instructed to think back to my primary school
learning and cut the cupcake like this…
- At this point I had no idea what we were making.
- Maybe it was an A?
- If so, almost done.
- Then they told me to ditch the A.
- But, I had finally figured it out…
- Time to focus on the chocolate cupcake.
- Well, now this I understood.
- I had my knife ready to cut away the parts not needed. The parts I would then help everyone dispose of.
- But we didn’t cut it.
- We drew lines on it in the shape of an X (this letter I remembered) and added more and more (For the body of the puppy).
- Sure, this is what puppies bodies look like. I was ready to go back to making As
- Then we went back to the vanilla cupcake, it was time to “put it on the body facing you.”
- They obviously had never seen me in high school wood shop.
- There are 4 sides to this cupcake piece.
- Three ways for me to mess up and two of them were irreversible.
- And thanks to my earlier forgetfulness of how an A slopes, I was down to one piece.
- I hesitated.
- I clarified.
- I asked outright.
- The woman finally realizing the class could not move on without me, came over and placed it for me.
- Turns out, the part that was originally the top of the cupcake is where the face of the puppy should be. And you should face that towards you.
- Now it was time to make sure that puppy stayed put.
- I suggested a leash and several chains…but they recommended flowers at the base of the puppy\vanilla head.
- My flowers came out all squiggly and wiggly
- They told me it was fine, I was not satisfied with this.
- So, I made them teach me how to make the flowers look like flowers.
- And ladies and gents here it is…Squeeze, stop squeezing, pull.
- It was the “stop squeezing” of the pastry bag that I then proceeded to work on.
- Even after my head understood the new directive my hand had a field day disobeying.
- Now we fastened the green melon looking candy, with some frosting, to put on the front of our cupcake to look like the muzzle.
- Note: You can get carried away with the amount of frosting.
- Again, I blame my hand.
- It’s on vacation, and since I type for a living, it decided to do what it wanted.
- Then you make lines, starting near the chocolate base or green melon, up the doggies face to where the top of the original cupcake stops.
- I thought, oh good, hand do your thing. The hand made crooked lines.
- Next fur, on the 4 remaining untouched cake surfaces.
- The lady teaching gave us two option.
- One to make lines, for a sophisticated looking pup
- Two a bunch of the little flowers for a spiky dog.
- My dog told me he was a punk rocker, so I started the flower approach.
- My hand was not happy.
- Find that Green Mellon on the front and zig zag up and down it with frosting so no green shows.
- By now the tasty cake has built a fortress over its self, rendering its self safe...
- Next we took half a black jelly bean and added it onto the front, just above the now hidden green melon candy.
- Next, we took our blue candy buttons and put them on our dogs.
- My pup look appropriately pouty and forlorn. He must be a teen dog who’s best friend is out of town.
- Next, came two American Smarties (not to get mixed up with the Canadian M & M like candy).
- I’m talking the chalky Halloween candy that is mainly sugar with a tiny bit of flavor.
- I loved them because when opened it had a zillion pieces of candy.
- To share, or not share with others.
- Oh yeah, these are ears. They look like mouse ears, so we were instructed to frost over them in a pointy A shape.
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- I had Finally mastered my A.
- Mrs. Guilly, my kindergarten teacher, would be proud.
- You also put a large dot of frosting behind the ears at the base.
- This is to help keep the ears from sliding and becoming a bow tie.
- Next, we had chocolate sprinkles, the long kind.
- I’m not sure of their technical name.
- We put frosting on a toothpick and were told to pick up the longest one in our cups
- Put it under the nose. It’s supposed to be center, but my pup is a punk rocking teen, he has attitude.
- I then was instructed how to do eyelashes, which you can see on my instructors well coiffed version of this here (i.e. what mine was supposed look like)…
- I did eyebrows instead...
- My puppy looks droopy which would’ve been great if I was making Droopy.
- But, this was a combination of a sweaty cupcake base (make sure your cupcake is cool) and melty frosting.
- I asked a teacher what she did when her frosting got saggy.
- She said she put it in the fridge til it got cool again.
- My conclusion is too have two frosting bags going.
- One in the fridge one you are using so you can switch out.
- Then we flipped it to the back and added an ending to this tail.
- Then I dug in and "ate the cake", or what I could extract from the rebellious pup.
- Or if you prefer, "preserved it forever"...sure...if that makes you feel better.
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