7 posts tagged “wilton”

This past weekend, Joe and I visited Massanutten for a family get together and Joe's birthday.  We had a great time!  After getting home, I got cracking on my first cake for Wilton's Course 3 class.  After a month long [forced] break from Wilton classes, I was ready to learn about rolled fondant and tiered cakes.  This week I created a 'Fondant Package Cake'.  I would consider my first experience with fondant a complete success!

Last night, I completed Lesson 4 and the grand finale cake of Wilton's Course 2.  To make this floral treat, I used the basketweave technique, rope border, and various royal icing flowers.  The results were quite lovely.

Then, this afternoon, I had the pleasure of receiving a beautiful vase of flowers sent from Joe's mom [future mother-in-law Sarah].

Last night was the second lesson of Course 2 of Wilton Cake Decorating.  The previous Tuesday, Lesson 1, the class reviewed Course 1 techniques and quickly moved on Course 2 [Flowers and Borders].  We learned to use star tips to create the Rosette and the Reverse Shell.  Then, we produced the Rosebud and Chrysanthemum Buttercream Icing Flowers.  We finished Lesson 1 off by learning the recipes for Wilton's Royal Icing and Color Flow Icing.

We started Lesson 2 with Color Flow Icing by outlining and filling in the provided bird design to be saved and used on the [Lesson 4] final cake.  We moved on to Royal Icing Flowers [pictured above] and concocted the Apple Blossom, Violet Leaf, and Violet, which will also be saved and used on the final cake.
In other news, I thrifted this amazing suitcase during my weekend in Virginia Beach.  It's in almost new condition, having spent most of it's life in someone's attic, only being used for the rare trip down the street.  I fell in love with it even more when my mom told me she received one just like it [only in gold] as a high school graduation present.
I love, love, love the new [to me] suitcase and found this super easy luggage tag tutorial I just had to make.  All you need is two contrasting fabrics, fabric interfacing, and matching ribbon.  The fabric pictured was salvaged from a [less than useful] lap desk I thrifted solely for the fabric, pictured in a previous blog post.  Let me know what you think.

This week, I completed the fourth and final lesson in Wilton's Course 1 of cake decorating.  I learned to decorate with flowers by completing the last step in creating "The Wilton Rose".  I worked on floral accents, leaves and vines and ended the class by constructing the rose spray and decorating my last cake of the course.

The final cake design displayed in the book looked, for lack of a better word, girlie.  Since I just couldn't seem to grasp the 'identity' of the cake while creating it, I managed to make it look ridiculous proportionately.  I put into the cake what I was required.  No more, no less.  That being said, I believe I did a decent job on the roses themselves.

Last night, I completed Lesson 3 of the Wilton Cake Decorating class.  This week, I learned about flowers and figures.  I worked on Part 2 of "The Wilton Rose" and used a star tip for figure piping and making the shell.  I also learned the fun and easy drop flowers.  Lesson 3 resulted in a clown cake I mistakenly waited to photograph after a long car ride home.  Unfortunately, part of the shell boarder perished while shifting around inside the cake courier.

Going out to his car yesterday morning, Joe was shocked to find the passenger window was completely busted in.  Someone broke the window and damaged the frame of the door to get to Joe's iPod.  We stopped a passing cop to get a report.  He was quite offended that we called our car insurance company before dialing 911 for a non-emergency.  The cop had just completed a report for the same crime one street over and wasn't happy about filing another report.  The middle compartment and glove box contents were scattered in front of our apartment building.  It's slightly embarrassing how many fast food napkins we've saved up.