Final one tonight. I now have my “I graduated the Wilton Class 2” certificate. Yay! I think my cake turned out OK. I think it could have been better. You can tell me what you think.
I’m so frustrated. Between the icing fiascos and being so busy and everything else I’m surprised it turned out as nice as it did. To top things off? I actually dropped my bin holding all my royal icing flowers and my colourflow butterfly’s. I mean dropped the bin. Dropped it from standing up. Mega mess. So a lot of my flowers broke up and are bleh. And bye bye colourflow… that just didn’t work out at all. So no butterflys. No flower pot. I’d like to try something with that again sometime… hehe
Well here’s a picture of my final cake… tell me what you think! 🙂 By the way it is Red Velvet…
I did basketweaving for the bottom half the top and a rope border. And you can see I was starting to run out of that rope border icing and got a little sloppy. The basket, border, and main frosting are buttercream. The flowers are hard royal icing. (Very sweet!)
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loadhan said:
That looks awesome!
That’s all I can say. 🙂
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Lady Ozma said:
That’s all you can say???
Okies….
Thanks… 🙂 ((HUGS)) Feel free to take a slice!
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loadhan said:
Re: That’s all you can say???
Well I just meant that ‘awesome’ is enough said … it speaks for the cake and its baker. 😀
Thanks for the slice!
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: That’s all you can say???
hehe… I’m really not as happy with it as I’d like to be. *SIGH* Probably due to all that icing trouble I had. Too thick. Too thin. Difficulty with buttercream. So I bought store buttercream. it ended up yellow, not white. GRRRR… ROFL
ANyway… hopefully it is a good cake! 🙂
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withoutanet said:
oh my!
that looks beautiful enough that i want to take cake decorating!!! so pretty! maybe i should check some books out at the library… i have always been interested, but never pursued. /me helps herself to a wonderful piece of cake… sorry you had so many icing difficulties… murphy’s law seems to always be in effect
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: oh my!
You should take the classes! Let me give you some advice on buying stuff… since Christmas is coming up… hehe
OK, at Micheal’s (so probably most craft stores) you go to the cake decorating section. They have a three boxes of things you can buy. There are three levels of class and there’s a box of tools for each class.
The first class you learn how to do shell borders, stars, and a lot of the basics. Class two you learn the flowers. Class three you pretty much learn how to do a wedding cake. So by the time you are done you have amassed quite a bit and have learned lots of nifty things!!
The kit for class 1 is 20 dollars. Now, there is this thing that looks pretty much like a tackle box. They have one for 25 (I believe?) that has nothing in it. Then they have one that is exactly the same but a different colour. It is 50. It has everything for class 1. It is more expensive but you get the special box for storing all your stuff. I would recommend getting this!! Perhaps a Christmas present? But you’ll have a box to hold all your stuff. I’ve been using walmart bags. The top level of this holds tips and let me tell you, I didn’t buy that because I bought so much other Wilton stuff this month, so I just bought the tip case because rifling through all those tips looking for number whatever is a pain in the arse!
You can also just buy a case to hold tips, or you can buy the same case that is completely filled with tips!! 🙂
Anyway… I recommend it. It is loads of fun. I didn’t take class 1 yet but will probably take it in the spring. My friend took it last month though. They had this special where if you bought the kit for class 1, then you got the class for free. This month it was “Pay for the class bring a friend for free.” (Which translates to.. you and a friend split the cost of a class)
So watch the specials.
Also if you get a 50 percent off coupon, they have some like 120 kit that I think the teacher said had everything for all three classes. She said some guy came to her first class 1 class this month and he had bought that! Wowsers! But at 50 percent off… boomchaka… 🙂
The class two kit was 25. So I would recommend comparing stuff. Because I was dumb and will probably end up spending twice as much money now then I would have had I snagged a 50% off coupon and just done something like that. HEHE
*Warning* In class one you bake like three cakes! HEHE In class 2 you only bake 1. Don’t know about class three!
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