{ Course 1 - Final Cake }

The last class in Course 1 had us learning icing roses. Note my Course 1 completion certificate in the background:


My little cakes, ready to be baked...


Here's my little beauty after smoothing. This was my best icing job to date.
We were mostly focused on doing the icing roses this class, we practiced those for the first hour. I'm so glad we have such a good teacher, I know not all Wilton students are so lucky. Some teachers tend to just hold "come play with icing" classes. Our teacher gets really hands on and critiques our techniques until she knows we're doing it perfectly. I really appreciate that!

I am especially proud of my nearly-flawless shell border on the bottom:


My rose, ready for it's close up.
And, ahem, allow me to point out how smooth the cake surface is... ;-)

Course 2 starts the first week of April! We'll learn the basket weave, royal icing, and more flowers...

{ 2nd Course 1 Cake }

For the second course 1 cake, Husband suggested I use a strawberry cake mix. At first I cringed but I have since realized this was an excellent idea - I hate strawberry cake so I won't eat it!

Here it is after icing it with Mother Tip (#789) but before smoothing.

And after smoothing:


And finally, after class. We were taught lots of techniques this week! We learned how to section off a cake, pipe figures (like teddy bears, babys, and {shudders} clowns), and also to pipe shapes (like hearts). I put my website on there to help deter CakeWrecks and other people from making fun of my mis-matched cake. It was fun to make!Piped baby booties. SO CUTE!

An up-close of my hearts. I really think I will use this technique quite often...

And we learned how to pipe figures - like these smiley clowns.

Next we're doing a cake with roses. I'm pretty excited about that...

{ First Course Cake }

This is the first cake we all made in our Wilton Course 1 class. We needed to bring a 2-layer 8 inch round with light blue frosting. Again, I got it smooth with the paper towel technique.We transferred the outline of a rainbow, and used each band on the rainbow to practice a different technique for filling.

Zig zag piping, stars, dots, and smoothing. The clouds were also piped zig zags that were increased size in the middle.
We got to write whatever words we wanted, as long as it was at least 3 letters.
So there you have it! My very first class cake.