SEC | S11W6-Share/Develop Your Creativity (DIY)

DIY is a simple or easy way you do something that people can see and understand easily. It is also the ability to be original, skillful, creative and talented in doing something in a practical way.

I am gifted to do many things with my hands. I can create things from my own idea through recycling of unwanted materials, craft or cooking. Another thing I can be able to do by myself is baking and icing. When it comes to baking, a person can make different snacks or food that he/she is good at. I love to bake cakes and cookies and design them to my desired style.

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How I Feel When I Make Anything by Myself

Being creative is joyous, each time I make anything all by myself, I am always very excited and proud that I have actually achieved something. Talking about what I use the things I made for; I make cake only on a purpose, it might be for birthdays, anniversaries or just to be consumed at home.

I will show everyone example of my DIY that I can do with ease. It is a cake recipe, I will show the baking and icing process.
The ingredients used and the preparation methods will be displayed below;

Chocolate Cake Recipe

Ingredients	Measurements
Flour	1 and ½ cup
Sugar	2 cups
Choco	85g
Baking powder	1 and ½ tsp
Eggs	2
Vegetable oil	½ cup
Milk (warm)	½ cup
Hot water	1 cup

Part 1: Baking Procedures

Step 1: measure all the dry ingredients ( flour, sugar and baking powder) into a bowl.

Baking powder	Flour	Sugar

Step 2: mix all together.

Mixed dry ingredients

Step 3: measure wet ingredients (egg and vegetable oil) and mix together with the dry. Add hot water and use electric mixer for just 2 minutes.

All the ingredients in the mixer

Step 4: put it into the pan and bake.

About to bake	Chocolate cake is ready

Sweet chocolate cake is out of the oven. I will join it with other flavors ( strawberry and vanilla cake) and ice using fondant.

Part 2: Icing

This is fondant icing process. My fondant was ready so I will show how I got the beautiful design on the cake.

Step 1: I put all the cakes together (vanilla, chocolate and strawberry) and begin to trim in order to make the body smooth and leveled.

trimming using grater

Step 2: I butter creamed the body and cut round fondant to cover the top.

cutting fondant	smoothening the top

Step 3: I covered and smoothen the entire body.

making all corners smooth

Yes, I paused and took a selfie of myself while working.

A selfie of myself

Step 4: I molded different sizes of balls with fondant and cut name to place on the cake.

My balls for design

Step 5: I used toothpick to pin the balls and water to glue the name on the cake.

Pinning balls	gluing name

Step 6: the last thing was to use gold glitters to paint all the gold colours on the cake.

Painting

Here's the result I got after doing it myself.

Final result of my cake

My Advice to those Finding it hard to Participate in Anything DIY

DIY is very good because it improves your inner skills and creativity. Taking part in it will not only add value to your knowledge but also give you that self-confidence to stand out. I know DIY can frustrate someone at some point while in the process but the ability to be patient and determine is very important. In order to Do It Yourself, you must love what you do and have passion for it.

I will invite @eliany, @pandora2010 and @marito74 to share their creativity through this DIY challenge. Thank you!

Here is my introductory post link.