Beginning Cake Decorating

For as long as I can recall, I have always wanted to learn how to decorate cakes. Sure, sure, I've done the standard frosting, sprinkles and even delved into some carving but I have always wanted to make roses, and stars and those little frilly borders.

Well for Christmas this year, my wonderful husband gave me a Wilton Cake Decorating class through Michael's. He even bought me the professional kit! Woohoo!

This post is actually about the 2nd class because that's when we taught to make the little stars and got a sample of rose making. My sister-in-law, Karen, joined in on the fun too. Let me tell you though, I followed Wilton's instructions on making a cake using their 8" diameter, 2" deep pans...oy.....took forever for the cakes to bake. And frosting the darn things?! LOL It was hilarious because we were only told to make the frosting in certain types of thickness without actually having seen samples of each. Nevertheless, through all the mistakes and laughter, I had my cake ready for class.

We first practiced making the little star, and I'm sorry, I was so caught up in it I forgot to take pictures! LOL But Karen and I took a few snaps of us decorating and so, I give you .....pictures!

The Beginnings of a Rose

If I had more hands, I could have taken pictures of the actual process.

Ta-Da! These are my first two roses. Pretty good even if I do say so myself.

Karen is mixing color into the icing mix so we can make our stars for the cake.

Karen was very quick in getting her rainbow done...I took a while but only because I tend to be too much of a perfectionist. LOL

This is me applying the stars onto the cake....

I wish I'd of taken a closer picture but you can see how it is starting to turn out.

And VIOLA! We have a rainbow cake! I put my youngest sons name on it because his birthday is this week. I do need to practice with actual writing because the letters were pretty squiggly.