Decorating Cakes and Selling Most of Them!- July 12, 2012

   Luan and I met with her discipleship women group to teach them how to make buttercream and royal icing. The women had made cakes beforehand and when we got there, we set to teaching them and showing them some designs through the decorating tips. Then we stepped aside and let them practice and then decorate the cakes. When talking with the women, they said that several people asked if they could buy the cakes when they were on the way to the meeting.

    The women told them they would decorate them and then bring them back. So basically they had already sold cakes before the people even saw the finished product! AWESOME!! Our intent in teaching them to bake and decorate cakes is to turn around and sell them to make a little income, plus the cakes that are made are sold for extreme amounts of money, are dry, and taste like dirt. So it’s good that they are starting to make cakes, and hopefully, some of them will continue to do this and create business.

One of the cakes the women decorated is pictured below. This one has a buttercream covering and the pink is buttercream, the flowers are royal icing. I made several flowers, swirls, shells, and other designs with royal frosting a couple days before to show the women how it hardens to a candy consistency. It still tastes gross though! 

Here are some of the women with the cakes they decorated.