First German Chocolate cake

Tonight my mom and i had our final class of the course 1 Wilton decorating class and i chose to bake a german chocolate cake.  All of the decorating on the cake we learned in this class.  The cake came out really good in the end but i must have used 3 lbs of shortening and butter just to find a good chocolate buttercream recipe that would pipe well.  In the end i just went with the Wilton chocolate buttercream.  Then i piped about 50 of those drop flowers on parchment paper to let them air dry so i could just put them on the cake during class, but when it came time to do that i decided to toss them and re-do them.  I also learned during class that LESS IS MORE!! At first, i couldn't stop putting things on my cake because i wanted to see how it looked.  I started piping white leaves but then quickly realized that wasn't going to work.  Our instructor kept saying that sometimes you've just gotta stand back and look at the whole cake.  I also had fun with edible glitter as you can see the shiny roses!!  Glitter makes everything better! 

My mom found this key lime cake recipe that looked pretty good so she chose to make that for the class
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When we got back from our class my mom and i couldn't wait to cut our cakes to taste them.  The key lime cake was extremely moist and it tasted more like lemon but im definately keeping that recipe.  Then we tried my german chocolate cake and it was really good too!!  I feel like i need to run 5 miles now, but fortunately they will go with my dad to work tomorrow.