I baked my first cake (box)
when I was 5 years old. Later I began to bake my cakes from scratch. I used
Betty Crocker’s silver white cake recipe. I filled and covered the cake with
7-minute frosting. I would decorate the cake with roses using a decorating kit
consisting of a bag and four plastic tips my parents bought for me at the Iowa
State Fair one year.
I would bake the silver white cake with 7 minute frosting for family gatherings and birthdays until I left home to attend college.
The summer of 1995 I visited a cake decorating store looking for something to decorate a Mother’s Day cake for a church potluck. I was told they would be starting decorating classes for beginners and asked if I was interested. I signed up and took my first classes in cake decorating that summer. Later that same summer I took Wilton’s Course No. 2 and that fall took an advanced class in cake decorating.
I baked my first wedding cake in January 1996 and continued to do six wedding cakes that year for co-workers and friends in addition to birthday and shower cakes.
Later I took a class in making gum paste flowers and began decorating cakes with gum paste flowers.
I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to take a gum paste flower class in January 1998 from Linda Meeden.
This was when I really began to make gum paste flowers using them for most all of my cakes. I followed with a class in rolled fondant in February 1998, also from Linda Meeden.
Since 1999 I have attended the ICES International Conventions to learn new techniques and become acquainted with new trends in cake decorating.
I thoroughly enjoy cake decorating and only wish I had began many years ago. I firmly believe that a cake should be both beautiful and delicious to eat.
Pictures of my cakes have been published in “MAILBOX NEWS”, “AMERICAN CAKE DECORATING” magazine and the “ICES NEWSLETTER”.