Last night was our (Caitlin, Miranda and I) last class in the Wilton Cake Decorating Basics class. I was a little stressed this weekend because I was making a 50th Birthday cake for my aunt along with preparing for my class this Monday night. So Sunday night I made my two-layer tiered cake along with 2 batches of icing. I colored my stiff icing pink for my roses and finished my crumb coat on my cakes and the final icing.
When we got to class, we were told to make roses. I made 12.
After our roses were made, we were to start practicing our writing skills with icing. (I had also already wrote on my 50th birthday cake, so I got some practice!)
For a full hour and a half we got to decorate on our cakes! I was so happy about that! I love just letting myself go and put all of my efforts into decorating! Such a stress relief for me! Here is my final product!
Here are pictures of everyone in our class’ cakes. I think everyone did so good!
This one looked like a pillow! So cute!
This was the pro in our class!
This was one from the book! Turned out quite similar!
Miranda's cake. Miss Perfection. 
And mine...
Vibrant colors!
Caitlin's cake!
First cakes...there were many!
Here is all of us receiving our Wilton Cake Basics I certifications!
Close up of my roses
And of course I had to take a pic once I got it home.
I had so much fun in this class and encourage anyone to take it! It is a wonderful learning experience and it’s even better when you have a few friends to share the experience with! I am looking forward to baking many more cakes in the future and hopefully (fingers crossed) owning my own bakery one of these days!!
…look for Cake III, Fondant and Gum Paste, to be coming up in April. 
Love the picture you took of your cake at home. It really pops against the dark background!
Thanks! I’m going to miss our class!
Did it taste as good as it looked?
Ha! Yes! It was really good! I finally ate it today!
Your cake is beautiful!
Thank you so much!
This is awesome! I would love to take a class like this. It would really come in handy when I make all of my kids’ birthday cakes.
Your roses are beautiful
I know, I can’t wait to make Henry’s 1st birthday cake! So excited! Thanks so much!
You did an amazing job! What flavor is the cake? Looks absolutely delicious!
The cake was just a butter mix out of the box! Thank you! It was pretty yummy! Very hard for me to cut though!
Ok, wow! These are amazing! You are very talented – way more than me and my awful cake disasters. (-:
The class helped a TON! I never knew you could use all those different kinds of tips!
How fun! I would love to take a class like that. And you’re so good at it. Your roses look amazing. I won’t lie I totally wanted to eat them the second I saw them
YUM!
Aww, thank you! You’re so sweet! The class was SO much fun!
I’m pretty sure I’d never have the patience to decorate cakes so I have so much respect for people that love doing it and and are good at it to boot.
And now I need to eat cake.
I LOVE baking and decorating! I just wish I could make it my profession!
So, so pretty! I would love to take one of those classes. Can’t wait for your foray into fondant. Ellen
Thank you! I can’t wait for that class either! And the smoothing secret… Viva papertowels.
You’re making me hungry – except that it’s so beautiful, I wouldn’t be able to take the first bite!
It was SO hard to cut! I will admit! But it sure did taste good after I did it!
These look AMAZING! And now I’m craving cake…
Thank you!!
Wow, I’m really impressed! I make a mean German applestrudle, but it looks like a mess…
Even though I’ve been watching Cake Boss and Fabulous Cakes, my decorating skills have not improved
Sometimes messy is the tastiest!
You should take the class! It’s really fun if you take it with friends too.
So fun! These look delish and your cake is so pretty and very impressed with your roses. Did you say Wilton as in Wilton CT?
Great, now I’m starving. Can you please email me one of those cakes? Or Two…
Stop tempting me with your delicious recipes! And now cake?! So when can you come over and bake for me?