Rosette cake from cake decor class! 

I fell in love with the rosette cake and wanted to make one myself - so I showed my teacher the photo and asked her to teach me how to make it! I had some mini boos boos (which I patched up) but otherwise my cake turned out quite nice for a beginner lah and made me childishly happy. The insides of my cake is bit ugly and too yellow though cos I just got store-bought butter cake from GIANT ha - no time to go and bake 2 cakes for 2 days of class.

Turned out that there were only 2 students in class - and with the guidance of our very patient instructor, I definitely picked up some simple but v useful cake creaming/ piping skills! :) Serious cake decor is so time-consuming though!

Home-baking has suddenly turned into my new full-time job... and working on personal projects can be extremely time-consuming, though pretty fulfilling :)

Today I tried baking level cake layers (no muffin top cakes) for the carrot cake I'd be baking on Sun - and succeeded! Yay. Two out of the three layers wld be brought to a cake decorating/icing course I'd be taking over the next 2 days while the remaining layer was self-decorated with cream cheese frosting from another recipe.

Was inspired by various sources and the availability of this cute little herb in my fridge to come up with this look - a minimalist chic kinda decor heh. Practice really helps 'cos this turned out looking better than the very DIY design D got for his birthday carrot cake two weeks ago heh.

Hopefully my cake decorating powers doubles after my 2-day course. Excited! ;P