A Chronicle of Procrastination

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Cake Recap

Well, I've been so enthralled with the concept of mobile blogging, I've convinced myself that taking pictures of my sock with my iPhone and posting it counts as a blog post. Not really. I realized that I haven't put up pictures from Wilton cake decorating since February, so here's what I have been up to in the medium of sugar and shortening.

Even though this isn't my work, I wanted to point out the AWESOME birthday cake that Laura D. made for me! Not only was a beautiful on the outside, it was filled with LOADS of peanut buttery goodness on the inside!

We had just learned drop flowers, so I decided to practice on some mini cupcakes that I baked for book club one weekend.

The grand finale of Wilton Course I at Michael's was learning how to do the rose. Apparently, there's a steep learning curve for this (at least for me!). I haven't had much chance to practice lately. Here's my cake with purple roses on top, and some sweet peas on the side: Here's Laura D.'s cake with pink roses:
At the first class of Course II, we learned a couple new things in buttercream, including the rose bud. I definitely didn't feel inspired to whip out a rose, so I "practiced" a lot of rosebuds on my cake. My work enjoyed eating it!
Aside from adventures in mini cupcakes, I felt like I haven't had any time recently to practice these new skills. My friend is participating in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer this spring, and their team was having a big yard sale/bake sale today, so I decided I could contribute some goodies while practicing the new royal icing flowers I have learned.
Here's the pink ribbon cake I made. The rose buds and drop flowers (on the side) are done in royal icing. This was a cute little 6-incher! What a great size! I used the Joy of Cooking white cake recipe, and used Wilton colors to die the inside pink, too!


I also needed to get some apple blossoms and primroses ready for my final cake next week, so I did some cupcakes and decorated the tops with some extras.





















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