I Passed!

Okay, so I really would have had to not even try to make a cake to fail cake class, but the final class was Tuesday and I decorated a cake.  I didn't taste it, I sent it to work with my husband who claimed it got rave reviews.  It was a basic yellow cake with buttercream icing, vanilla fondant and daisies.  I would like to branch out and learn how to make more types of flowers so will need to take more classes.  It is fun.  My cake is the green, yellow and white cake and my classmate's is the pink and white cake.  We only had 2 in class and that was nice.  A fun site to browse is Cake Central. 

If you are interested in cake decorating at all, our teacher is Sari and she did not cry at all during teaching unless she did it in the car after class.  Seriously she is patient and fun and teaches lots of classes.  Her website is Sari's Flair and you can see some of her cakes and flowers and find out about classes.

Yesterday I had dinner at NY Prime with some of my friends and co-workers from KitchenAid.  We had a great meal of baked shrimp, jumbo lump crab, steak, cheesy potatoes, mushrooms, asparagus, wine, and shared desserts.  We were there about 2 hours and had lots of great conversation.  It's always fun to meet new people and find out how they decided to do what they do. 

I did not rush through dinner and I did not speed on the way home but I did make it home with 6 minutes to spare before the Top Chef Finale! I knew Casey was not going to win and I wanted Dale to win.  I know Hung is a good chef, I just liked Dale's personality better.  So now the television obsession is over and I can get back to not having to be home and awake at 10 on Wednesdays.  Until the next season.  Unless I watch the reunion show next week.  We'll see. 

Today I am going to go to KitchenAid training at Insperience to talk with the new people Paula and Jonathan.  I'll just share some of my experience from working with KitchenAid.  Saturday I'll be at Cook's Warehouse Brookhaven demonstrating the pasta attachment and sampling some Cook's Warehouse sauce, so stop by and pick up an attachment.  It is so easy to use.