Hi all,

I am very new to cake decorating. I have only decorated 2 cakes in my life and that was two weeks ago LOL. This is how it started...
I was channel surfing about 2 weeks ago and stumbled apon "The Ultimate Cake off"..I watched in stunned silence, the next show was "Cake Boss" and I was hooked!!
My husband and I bought a couple of uniced cakes on special at the supermarket, added a tub of Satin Ice fondant to the cart and came home and then the fun began!!
I did not know that you shouldn't use ordinary liquid food colouring to fondant. I did not know that you were supposed to use gumpaste for flowers (actually I had never heard of gumpaste till I found Cake Central!)
In fact, I think "clueless" pretty much describes me as far as cake decoring is concerned!
However I had a lot of fun and the results were not as bad as they could have been....but I am now an addict LOL and have ordered a few "supplies" and hope to do a lot more decorating, starting with a Mothers Day cake for my daughter.


I have attached two pics of my first ever attempts, if this is the wrong place I apologise and hope someone will steer me in the right direction.

Looking forward to getting to know you all and learning as much as I can.

Cheers
Terry
(New Zealand)

Friendly advice:
Start socking away the money for all of the cake decorating "toys" you will want. I don't even want to know how much I've spent on implements that I haven't used yet......

LOL I have NO idea why one of the pics is appearing several times! How do I delete the extras??

Shanter, I think my husband is already planning on hiding the credit card

Welcome to a wonderful life ChiWOWa ,
I thought that this link might help you
http://www.nzcakeguild.org.nz/branches/branches.htm

The Guild branches are often the best way to start if you want to find a teacher, find out about demonstrations and just find people that love caking just as much as you do.

Thank you so much for that link! I never thought to look for guild info. Amazing timing, there happens to be a lady doing a demo in our little town tonight!! Needless to say I have phoned and booked my place
I'm so excited!

Wonderful , I hope you have a great time.

wow those look great. Great job.