I'm a Wilton Graduate!

I decided to take a Wilton Cake Decorating class (Level 1 of course!) since my decorating skills do not exist whatsoever. I had tons of fun an learned so much. Though I'm not ready to make a 4 tier wedding cake yet, the first step was taken. After 4 classes where they teach you how to frost, pipe, decorate and tempt you to buy a few dozen gadgets, I had to decorate my own cake as a final project. The cake didn't come easy (as usual!); after a couple of hours baking in horrendous heat and humidity, I had to scrap my homemade cake and rely on good ol' Betty Crocker.

Well this is the progression:

Class1: the basics and some piping practice.

Class2: Frosting a cake

Class3: Decorating cupcakes

Class4: Creating a cake!! I'm kinda proud...

And my nephew didn't mind all that baking at all

It has to begin somewhere...

I've been thinking about it for a while, but tonight, the urge to start my "simpleton" blog is too strong to contain.

Thanh is my name and engineer should be my profession...if I was working. After taking a year off work to travel with my now fiance, Mark, I'm now back to a job-less life with tons of spare time to do nothing...until I discovered baking. Baking, how did I not meet you earlier? And now that we've met, I can tell you that I love you and yet, sometimes, you drive me insane. Why do you make my cookies flat, my tart shell shrink and my chocolate cake dry?

Well ever since I started baking, I've had my fair share of trials and tribulations... and gained pounds. This blog will document those perfect recipes that make me feel like Julia Child for a day and then those embarrassing baking experience that make me wish I was Julia Child...

I warn you thought, I am no writer and I am no pastry chef. This is only a blog of a girl with a lot of free time, who just fell in love...with baking.

Let the journey begin...