Baking Cakes from Scratch

On Saturday afternoon and evening Corinne, Michelle, and myself baked three different cakes from scratch. We also made the icing for the cakes from scratch and we decorated the cakes ourselves. This was a very labor-intensive project but I had so much fun learning how to make cakes and icing from scratch. We started making the cakes at around 4 in the afternoon and it took us about 25 minutes to bake the chocolate cake and the yellow cake in the oven. It took us another 25-30 minutes to bake the orange chiffon cake in the oven. After we had baked all of the cakes we waited until about 10 p.m. to start making the icing and decorating the cakes. We did not finish icing and decorating these cakes until about 1:30 or 2 in the morning. We did about 3 or 4 layers of icing on all of the cakes and then using different colored icing we made a rose for the top of the cake and then made the stems and the branches. My favorite cake out of all three was the orange chiffon because it had so many flavors. In my opinion the hardest part was the decorating because we had to make sure that the icing for the branches looked neat and we had to make sure that the pink rose was right in the middle of the top of the cake. I had so much fun making these cakes and I am so glad that I learned how to make cakes and icing from scratch.