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| Happy Wednesday! |
It all began Summer 2012, when I took a Wilton cake decorating course at the Michael's Arts and Crafts near my home. There, I learned the decadent ways of cake and buttercream, learned to sculpt frosting into flowers, roll and press fondant, and wield a bag of royal icing with a supple dexterity... okay, maybe that's a bit of a stretch.
For my very first post, I decided to show the world where I started - in class! Having a day job as an educator and a librarian, I have quite a bit of love for learning just about anything, so knowing that I love cake like a fat kid loves...well...cake, I thought that a Wilton class was right up my alley.
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| Sculpted gumpaste flowers |
Like everything that takes practice and determination, I spent a good part of my summer (approximately 8 weeks) feeding my "practice" to summer camp colleagues at Wednesday morning meetings (hence the "Happy Wednesday" cake above). They provided feedback on my cake/frosting combinations and saved me from having to either eat all the cake myself, or, god forbid, trash it.
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| Rosette swirl with buttercream |
The goal of this blog is to simply write and post and get into the habit of actually documenting my habit because unlike my sewing habit and crafting habit, the products of a baking habit don't stick around - they get eaten. Talk about a "transient beauty"!
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| Final cake for Wilton II. Vanilla cake and frosting with royal icing flowers. |
So here is to the "foundations" of my education -- the first products of my cake decorating classes -- the good, the bad, and the sometimes ugly (why I used this startling green, pink, orange, yellow, and violet color combination on this cake, I will never know). Blog posts from here on out will either be themed or educational, with a good smattering of library/education posts here and there. Posts will be here and there (as I'm working on my MLS - Masters of Library Science), but I continue to bake, so posts will continue to happen. Let's bake!
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| Basket weave piping technique on side of cake. |
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