During the course of Hobby Lobby's cake-decorating class, participants will learn dimensional cake decorating, how to write on cakes and how to make flowers and borders.
Each class is two hours long, once a week, and lasts a month.
Participants have the option of choosing between two days a week to attend the class.
On the last week of the class, students take their final exams and receive their cake-decorating diploma.
During the process of four sessions, they learned to "basket-weave" the sides of their cakes and make sugar flowers.
Then for the final class, the students used everything they learned in the previous weeks by adding their own borders, flowers and other decor.
Rebecca Simmons, second-year pharmacy student, is excited to have completed the course.
"The coolest thing I've learned in here was how to smooth my icing with a paint roller," Simmons said.
Aside from the joy that she gets from being able to eat everything when she's done, she said she also loved the classes because they made fun study breaks.
"I liked learning how to make different flowers for the cakes," said Jessica Price, Auburn alumna. "I'm excited that I know how to make them, so I can use it if I make a cake for someone's birthday."
Price said she looks forward to the class as a break from a kindergarten class she teaches.
Virginia Crouch, the class instructor, has been teaching the class since February.
She said she loves having the experience of teaching others her passion.
She first discovered her love for cake decorating when she designed her younger brother's guitar cake years ago.
"He was 10," Crouch said. "He's 50 now. So a little over 40 years ago."
In the upcoming sessions, students will learn the basic essentials of cake decorating.
This involves making icing, learning about icing bags, leveling a cake and designing simple tops.
At the end of this class, the students will decorate cookies they have brought in.
Crouch encourages anyone who wants to indulge in a fun and creative activity to sign up.
Sign-up sheets for the cake-decorating class are located at the registers in Hobby Lobby.
They are now offering the class for $20, possibly through June 2011.
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