Cake Decorating Class #2

I began Wilton's Cake Decorating Course 1 on February 2, 2010 at one of my new favorite stores: Micheal's. The class cost $22.50 and consists of four 2 hour classes until February 23. Class 1 we learned how to level a cake, make butter-cream frosting, stack a cake, frost a cake, color the frosting and fill decorating bags.

For class 2 we were to bring in a frosted cake, 3-4 cups of different color butter cream frosting so that we could decorate our cake. I made a yellow cake (Duncan Hines) with strawberry preserve filling. I will learn how to make a cake from scratch one day soon :-)


During class 2 we learned how to make stars, leaves, and write on the cake. There is an art to holding the decorating bags to get the best decorations. Valentine's day is this coming Friday so I decided to stencil hearts and fill with stars. I also tried my hand at vines and leaves. The hearts came out great but my leaves need some work.

Here's my first decorated cake!

I took the cake to work and it was a hit!! It didn't last 15 minutes, everybody said it was really good and they started placing orders for cake #2. This is great!