after 45 minutes. I did not know what the cakes were supposed to look like out of the oven, but it looked fine to me. Then I let the cakes cool for around an hour and started icing. The icing was the hardest part for me because I had a problem with smoothing out the cake when trying to put the icing on. Then I found this tool that spins the plate around, which helped me smooth the icing around the cake. 

     The last part was to actually decorate the cake which was hard because I had no clue how to work the tool that made the shapes on the cake. But after a couple of youtube videos, I felt like I had mastered it. So when I went to decorate the cake, I put the stars on top and around the cake, which was really easy. Then, I had to decorate the roses and I had the tools to make them but when I tried to do it on the cake, the icing did not come out as roses. So I tried my best on the rest of decorating the cake, which included trying to figure out how to make antlers for my cake. I ended up using pretzels because I could not figure out how to make the chocolate antlers. Then when I was done, I took some pictures with the cake and put it in the freezer for the next day.

      The next day I ended up having the cake that looked the most similar to the picture, which was the goal of the competition, and somehow I ended up coming in second because Mrs. Hutch did not like the artificial strawberry taste of my cake. I thought that I was being creative by having something different. I personally think that is biased, but I can’t argue with the judge. In all, I was happy with the product I made and hoped it looked and tasted good from all the work I put into it.