It Was Just A Joke!!!

Remember this cake? The one I showed on my blogoversary party post?

This one here:

For those of you who wanted a piece of that cake that I showed on my blogoversary, I feel like I should come clean with you. It was just a joke. Oh, I did make the cake, alright! It just wasn't a real cake! It was a styrofoam cake dummy covered with real buttercream frosting!

You see, I had signed up to take a Lambeth Style cake decorating class and we had to bring a 10-inch round cake. I had no time to bake a cake so I purchased a 10-inch round styrofoam cake dummy which fit the class requirements.

I covered it with real frosting, though!

I guess what I'm trying to say is: Don't feel too left out if you didn't get a piece of that cake, you weren't missing out on much! It was rather, how shall I put it, "dry"! LOL!

I even ended up taking it to work with me on April Fool's Day to see if I could get any takers, LOL! It was fun seeing people trying to cut through a styrofoam cake. The funny thing was, after one person would try to cut the cake it hardly showed the knife marks in the frosting so it was easy to get another "innocent passerby". They loved it! The people I had just fooled would quickly clean off the knife and say, "Oh, that was a great joke!" and get the area ready for the next person to walk by! Don't worry, I had real sugar cookies on hand to soothe any ruffled feathers that might have occured during my "April Fooling".

If you'd like to see how the cake was made, then check out these photos below that I took of the process during the class. The photos with the all white frosting on them are of the teacher's demo cake from the class.

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Here's step 1 and 2:
Step 3:

Step 4:

Steps 5, and 6:

Step 7a:

trace a curved line w/ a toothpick)

Step 7b:

(Pipe over that line with curl-q's)
Step 7c:

(Using a star tip pipe over the curly-q's)

Step 8:

Steps 9, 10, and 11 on the bottom of the cake:

Finish it off with the pink piped icing,

green leaves, pink fondant flowers, and

Voila'!

This style of cake decorating was developed by a man

by the name of Joseph Lambeth.

It was first popularized in the 1930's.
Here's a little bit of information on the

Lambeth Method of Cake Decorating.

If you'd like to see some fabulous examples of

Lambeth style cakes take a peek here, here, and here.

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I took some photos of some other beautiful cakes

(these are not Lambeth Style, but just pretty)

on display at the cake store where

the class was held.

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Here's a beautiful lacy cake.
The following photos are some close-ups of

the beautiful lacy details:

I am showing you those because I dream of making

"tatted lace" out of frosting for a cake!

Can you picture it?

Wouldn't that look so pretty!?!

Say, if I ever really do it you guys will be the first to know!


I'll finish off with this other lovely display cake.

Notice the beautiful lacy hearts on the bottom.

Gorgeous, aye?

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Well, that concludes my Lambeth Style and lacy cake post! Hope you enjoyed all the lovely, sweet confections and please don't go into a sugar coma looking at all that frosting, LOL! I hope you don't mind me 'fessing up, either! Hope you are having a wonderful week and be sure to leave a comment before you run off! Thanks for visiting!

Cheers,

TattingChic

xoxo