Good bye 2011 Part 2

My best friend and I decided to enrol in a cake decorating 101 course. In a nutshell, we bought a lot of equipment, laughed all throughout one class - we were making animals, I a hippo (shown below) and my friend a pig with a top hat that I sadly do not have a picture of.

We also toiled and toiled to bake a fruit cake each, they weighed like 2 tonne!!! We then learnt to cover and decorate it. I used this opportunity to gift my parents the cake for their 30th wedding anniversary. As you can see, it lacks imagination - I'm so proud of making my pet dog Dooley. Cute ain't he?!!

Excited about all the skills learnt, I made a plane for my colleague's bon voyage party. It took awhile to dry and was peppered with little holes from the toothpicks I used to keep the wings of the plane in place whilst they dried. My exasperated hubby who watched me confuse myself for about 10 minutes as to how to attach the tail of the plane kindly did it for me :)