Cake decorating class

I'm having so much fun! The ladies in my class are very nice and the instructor is crazy. Not to mention, YUM! My husband loved my cake. I made a (scratch) yellow cake with chocolate buttercream frosting, then decorated with mint and vanilla buttercream frosting. I was the only one that made different colors and flavors of frosting. I figure since I'm doing it I might as well make it interesting. I'm also the only one who made a scratch cake. Everyone has a kitchen aid mixer, which makes baking from scratch very easy. I wonder how much I save baking a scratch cake instead of a mix. My (frugal isn't that wonderful?) instructor buys cake mix at Grocery Outlet for .99 a box. I'm tempted to compute the price of a scratch cake! But i have all the needed ingredients in my pantry and I don't remember their individual prices. However if I need more I think I'll price everything out. Because I'm just that nerdy!

My cake was not a work of art! But its the first one so I don't intend to beat myself up about it. We needed 3 batches of frosting, stiff, medium, and thin. My medium frosting was the constancy of thick! I have plenty of frosting for a few classes. I made 4 batches of thin (accident!), 1 of medium (which is now stiff), 1 of stiff. I do need to make another batch of medium. The instructor drew the design on my cake, a simple 4 leaf flower. I filled it in with yellow, then outlined in orange. When my husband saw the cake he got very excited and said 'Is that a propeller??' lol sure honey. Like I said I dont mind that this one is not a masterpiece I had lots of fun making it and I really enjoy eatting it!