My Adventures in Baking this week.

My SIL Karin is in charge of the cooking school at Allen & Petersen. Its been awesome for Matt to work with his sister when it comes to the cooking school, and classes that he's offering in his store. I was able to go yesterday and take a class from her. It was one I've been looking forward to for months, and it did not disappoint. First we made cake balls. All kinds!! Red Velvet, Chocolate mint, and Coconut. They were totally yummy.

Then, we made delicioso cupcakes. Caramel Apple ones that were to die for, and chocolate fudge, and really moist carrot cake one. I was especially excited to cover them in fondant. We made carrots, and little Carmel apples to stick into our cupcakes. I had a really cute one that had nuts on it, but I gave it to Matt before I could take a picture.

I bet your wondering what these are all about? Admit it, your thinking the same thing I thought when I saw them, "those look like Ethiopian Santa Clause's." You know you were thinking it.

So I was trying to be creative, and thought I would dip little pretzel sticks in red and blue chocolate, and then dip the little end in dark chocolate, and they would look like light sabers that I could then stick on top of Gabe's cupcakes for his birthday at school. The night before, Matt and I were making them. They weren't turning out, and Matt suggested I pipe on some grey icing to look like the buttons on the sabers. After I did a few, I started laughing. "We can't put these on the cupcakes Matt, Gabe's teacher will think I'm racist!" So, we scrapped the 'light sabers' and decided to just sprinkle stars and stick my piped STAR WARS on them. See, for those of you who think I'm always spot on, I do make mistakes, quite often when it comes to baking. I just don't usually spotlight it on my blog. But I'm learning to laugh at myself a little more.