The Cake Novice

http://learnerdecorator.blogspot.com/

Lindsay's Description:

Join self-proclaimed 'cake novice', Heather, who began her cake decorating journey after baking and decorating not one but two cakes for her sons first birthday.  Since those first creations, Heather has been hooked and now shares her fun and creative journey at The Cake Novice blog.  Combining her enthusiasm and online tutorials, Heather is expanding her cake decorating knowledge and her tool kit.

Every post is an honest and fun account of Heathers experiences and lessons learned.  With great photographs showcasing Heathers growing cake decorating skills The Cake Novice is a fun and friendly cake decorating blog.

Heather Rooth's Description:

I have recently discovered the fun and fulfilment achieved through the art of cake decorating!

On my blog I will be sharing with you each step I take as I learn new things, from sponges to fruit cakes and buttercream to royal icing, piping and painting, to modelling fondant!

Everything I do will be posted here, be it my proudest creation or a big disaster! No secrets will be kept!


Recent Updates at The Cake Novice

Shoes, Poppies and more

16 May 2012

Hi all, sorry for the big gap since the last post. I'd like to say I've been really busy but, while I have been busy, I've also had plenty of opportunities to write a new post. And I haven't. So anyway, sorry. So I've had two more classes since I last wrote. One focused on shoes, and the other on ...

What I done at school this week

26 April 2012

Well, I didn't win the Easter competition, but quite frankly I didn't expect to. The other entries in the finals were amazing! But the cake was most delicious ;) Anyway, I don't know if I've mentioned this in a previous post, but I've enrolled in a cake course at my local campus. It's a ten week ...

Easter Competition

13 April 2012

I'm a finalist!! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.315602458505848.71737.115300861869343&type=1 Hopefully you can see this... if not then go to Facebook, find the Cake Masters page, like it and check out the 'Easter competition - Bake for Fun Finalists' album. My basket cake is ...

Easter Basket Cake

10 April 2012

Well, Cake Masters have had another competition on for Easter. I don't think this one has a prize, but I thought I'd give it a go anyway. Ever so original, I thought I'd have a go at an Easter basket style of cake, as there is a technique of piping butter cream where you can create a basketweave ...

More cupcakes

09 April 2012

Another mate/colleague had his last day at our company recently, and since he's a big fan of F1 and cars in general I had a go at these: It's the first time I've tried recreating an image with fondant... I made templates with baking paper and used those to cut round. It was fiddly but I think I ...

Royal Icing

06 April 2012

So I finally got sick of the sight of the half finished cake that was sitting on the table for days and decided to complete it. I just rushed through it as I'd lost the enthusiasm. Here's how it looked after I'd finished applying the royal icing. I don't think Ceri Dz (who did the YouTube videos I ...

Mother's Day

17 March 2012

The next Cake Masters competition was announced recently, and in light of my complete failure to even get shortlisted in the Valentine's comp, I wanted to try again, bigger and better. Well actually, it ended up being smaller. But that's beside the point. I also wanted to do something special for ...

A Farewell (or Kane's Kit-Kat Kake!)

05 March 2012

No... not a farewell from here. I'm never giving up, never I tell you! Ahem, sorry. Anyway, I must apologise for my recent absence from blogging. I've been on a diet and for the first week or so I was trying to refrain from making cakes as I have a habit of eating as I go along - which is probably ...

Chocolate cupcake

18 February 2012

I've been practising my piping skills this week... I like to think I'm getting better:

Valentine's Day

17 February 2012

I made a cake for Valentine's Day. What self-respecting cakey type person would let a day like that pass without... well, cake. I decided to go for something slightly different from my usual, and tried out a Mary Berry recipe that my mum wrote down for me. I tested out my new heart shaped tins. The ...