Cupcake Class

This week, I took a cupcake decorating class with some friends at Miss Mamie's in downtown Marietta.



The cupcake display in the store.


A view of our workspace.


Miss Mamie showing us how to work with the fondant icing. The theme for our class was "owls". I had never worked with fondant, so I was excited to get to play with it. I personally don't like the taste of it, but it was really easy to work with and opens up a whole new world of cupcake decorating for me.

Sue cutting her fondant owl pieces.

At the grown-up table, we worked by cutting out all of the owl pieces before assembling. The "students' at the other table were all school-aged. They took a different approach of completely assembling one owl at a time. Their owls were more creative than ours, but it took them a lot longer. I didn't think to take any pictures of their owls.

My assembled owls.



After our owls were done, it was time to ice the cupcakes with a giant pastry bag filled with butter cream icing.


Sue posing proudly with her finished cupcakes.

And Wendy with hers.

And me with mine.

Here's a closer look at the finished products.

Sue is organizing a "Cupcake War" for later this month, modeled ever so slightly after the tv show of the same name. I feel a little bit better about the event after taking this class.