Whether they are creating cakes in the Culinary Arts class, operating a business in Marketing and Accouting classes or participating in a music video, students at Magnolia High School (MHS) and Magnolia West High School (MWHS) are creatively keeping busy.

The Tomball/Magnolia/Montgomery Go Texan Committee asked MHS, MWHS, Tomball High School (THS) and Montgomery High School to donate one cake per school created by the students to a recent fundraising event the group held.

Pictured, the Culinary Class at Magnolia West High School recently donated this cake to the Tomball/Magnolia/Montgomery Go Texan Committee Fundraiser held Jan. 15.

Students in the Culinary Arts class at MWHS created a cake with a rodeo theme and students at MHS created a cake designed as a letterman jacket.

MWHS Culinary Arts Teacher Barbara Gonzalez helped her 12 students come up with the design and structure of the cake. Gonzalez said the cakes are edible.

The rodeo-themed cake was a three tier cake with the bottom layer resembling denim jeans, including a belt and buckle. The buckle also included a mustang to incorporate the school’s mascot.

The second layer of the cake resembled the pattern of a cow and the top layer was red with white stars and brown horseshoes. The cake was topped with a cowboy hat made of a Rice Krispie base and fondant brim and each layer lined with a rope.

Each student had different pieces of the cake to prepare, including stars, pockets on the jeans, airbrushing the jeans and fondant cow pattern. Gonzalez said once all the pieces were completed the students put the cake together.

The cake took five days to complete and was sent to the Go Texan Committee to be included in its live auction and dance on Jan. 15.

According to Go Texan Dance Co-Chairman Carla Escamilla, THS had the highest bid on their cake at $600. MWHS’ cake auctioned for $500, MHS’ cake auctioned for $355 and Montgomery High School’s cake auctioned for $300.

She explained that money earned from the cakes is used for scholarships for each of the schools.

Gonzalez said this is MWHS’ first year to have a Culinary Arts class. The class aims to do a meal for the faculty and staff once a week.

In other MWHS news, Marketing and Accounting classes are running their own cookie enterprise.

Jeremy Collins teaches the Marketing and Accounting elective courses and acts as the Chief Executive Officer of the company. Students in the class act as employees, four managers and one president.

The Otis Spunkmeyer Cookies are freshly baked by the students.

According to Collins, the Marketing classes operate the sales and advertising and the Accounting classes evaluate the profit and expenses. Collins said the students have learned a lot about business and possible career goals.

“It teaches them how to make money, handle people and work with their peers,” he said. “They don’t want to study a book every day.”

Collins stated that the students are open for business three days a week for about 30 minutes each day and also do door-to-door sales in MWHS. Students earn about $1,000 in profits each week.

“Once they see money come in, they get excited,” Collins said.

Money earned from these classes is then used towards a field trip or classroom equipment.

In more MHS news, the students recently put together a “lip dub” video of the song “Firework,” by Katy Perry.

The video, available on YouTube.com, has more than 195,000 views. Students created the video using only one camera.

In an interview with radio station 104.1 KRBE, Broadcast Journalism teacher Kathrina Martin said she chose the song because she wanted to show students how welcoming MISD is.

The video included 600 students from MHS.

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