I grew up watching and helping my mother decorate cakes. When an opportunity presented itself to get an inexpensive cake decorating kit, I took it. It was a Betty Crocker As Seen On TV thing that has turned out to be not too bad.... as long as you aren't planning on using more than one color. It took me a while to get the hang of it since I was used to my mother's more professional stuff, but I managed.
When my husband told me that one of his co-workers was leaving I thought it would be fun to make a cake for her and since she likes penguins I wanted to try and make a penguin shaped cake. After some thought I decided I wouldn't be up to this task yet so I just found a graphic online and worked to trace it onto a simple 9x13 frosted cake. This was harder than I thought. I ended up cutting out the total outline and using my Pampered Chef orange peeler to trace it on. I then added details free hand with the peeler and, later, frosting. We didn't know what her favorite color was (found out it was purple in time to do the hat and lettering) so I thought it would be cute to make it blue. Let me know what you think. And be honest :)
