What about baking WITH your daughter?

Check out this mom and daughter team. I love their idea! A living, dynamic cookbook.

They took a Wilton class together, and here are their results. Beyond that, what fun to learn together!

Check it out here.

Should you take a cake decorating class?

Whether you’re just starting out or have been decorating cakes for a while, if you’ve caught the cake decorating bug, it might be time to take a class or two. You can learn a lot on your own because there are some awesome books, videos, and websites that’ll teach you lots of tricks and tips.

But there are just some lessons that are easiest to learn in a cake decorating class. You can find great classes in a few places in your community:

• large craft stores
• cooking schools
• private classes with a professional cake decorator

You could even form your own class or club by getting together with other local cake decorators to learn a new skill. Post an ad on Craigslist or Meet-Up to find them, and plan an initial meeting somewhere public so you can talk about what you’d all like to learn.

The benefits of cake decorating classes include:

• feedback from other decorators – if that dog you made actually looks like a tow truck, don’t you want to know?
• you can ask questions and get immediate answers
• you can watch how other cake decorators fix their goofs rather than just seeing the finished product
• fun!
• cake!! after all - it would be a shame to let it all go to waste!