I signed up three cake classes that are being offered by Cranbrook’s Parks and Recreation group.

The first course (Class One) is teaching basic decorating skills.

Our job this week was to come back to my Wednesday night class with a baked cake, iced with Wilton Icing, and extra cup of Icing to learn how to pipe flowers etc.  I decided that since I know what a cake is (that was seriously one of the steps of the first class), I would teach myself how to do something . . . and I double “torted” the cake.  Basically that just means that I cut my 10″ cake into three layers.

Step One: Lemon Raspberry Torte Cake

I used a cake leveller and this step was crazy simple!  You just change the height of your leveller and you come out with a smooth, even cake layer!

I put a layer of Raspberry Icing on the bottom layer, as this is what I had left over from the Giant Cupcake from yesterday.  I didn’t need to put a layer of icing around the outside as this raspberry icing is very thick….so thick I couldn’t spread it without the cake crumbling underneath it.

For the next layer, I used a lemon spread.  As this lemon spread was thinner than the raspberry icing, so I was worried about it spilling out of the sides, so I used the thicker raspberry icing to edge the cake.  Yup, it’s messy!  That stuff was THICK!

Torted cake!

All it needs now is the base coat, and it’s ready for Wednesday’s class.