Internship 1st Day...

Today was the first day of my internship. I am doing my internship at a local market in the bakery. I want to learn how to decorate cakes and also how bakeries of a larger size operate. For the first day of my internship I had a wonderful time, everyone was so nice and my internship supervisor was extremely nice, patient, and excited to share knowledge. She was confident enough in me to let me frost cookies within my first 20 minutes of being then and then ice scissor cakes and another cake. Have a look!

Here are the smiley face cookies that I was assigned to do. I was nervous at first but they were rather simple.


I also had to do large smiley faces...



Here are all of the cookies I decorated ready to be packaged...


This was referred to as scissor bread or scissor cake. I had to ice the brown ones with a maple icing.


After a break we started to ice cakes. This part had me nervous! Here is the finished iced cake. NO I did not do the seashell border on top. I wish!


After frosting the cake we were ready to decorate. This is where my nerves kicked into high gear. My supervisor just whipped her rosebuds out so fast I practiced for quite a while and mine still looked awful. She gave me some tips and I got a bit better.


I am embarassed to show my finished cake, but I am in my internship to learn so hopefully by the end of this semester I will be proud to show you my cakes and I can laugh over this picture.