Whenever people tell us how georgeous her cakes and pastries are, Sue likes to brag that she just has a natural flair.
That's what it had come to. Sure everything started out great - Sue had a great time buying all the ingredients, designing the stencils, and getting everything ready for her masterpiece cakes. But all that excitement came to an end when her cakes didn't turn out quite the way she had planned.
They sagged in the middle, the icing would droop on one side, and her lettering was basically smudged all over the top of the cake.
I think Sue was more frustrated with the taste than anything else - she said it was worse than soggy bread.
You see, Sue hates to admit that she was wrong, but one day she was so upset that she drove over to one of her friends house and just let it all out. She told her all the problems she was having decorating these cakes and how she was ready to just give up.
Naturally Sue was skeptical. She had read several recipe guides and cake decorating instruction books already... and they were good... but she admitted they didn't give her the skills needed to actually get from start to finish herself.
She told Sue to just follow a few of the basic methods and recipes in this book and see what happened. That day Sue got a hold of this guide and came home to revive her cake decorating passion. To her delight she produced her first butter cream icing cake that tasted absolutely scrumptious. I couldn't believe it myself. I thought it must have been a different woman cooking in the kitchen.
Sue got so excited that she turned to the section on cake borders and starting exploring more advanced...
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