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The classes may have ended, but the cake fun never does. Here are the post-class cakes.
First up, the cake for Penny’s birthday.
The Wilton cake classes at Michael’s are over. Penny and I worked our way through all 4 courses, ending with the Fondant and Gumpaste course at the end of July.
Look – it’s another cake!
This one used perhaps the lamest technique from the Wilton series: covering a cake board in fondant. Making the marbelized fondant … not lame. Covering cakes in fondant … not lame. Covering a board that no one can eat and essentially wasting several ounces of purchased fondant … lame.
The Wilton madness never ends. Having finished Course III last night, I’m already enrolled in the Fondant and Gumpaste course. It’s not called Course IV, but that’s essentially what it is. So the cake posts will continue!
Here’s a look at the final cake for Course III. Luckily for her, my assistant editor’s birthday was today so it made perfect sense to turn the final cake into her birthday cake. Take note all of you who want cakes – birthdays on Tuesdays in July stand a better chance of getting a Tammycake.
Otherwise known as Wilton Course 3 or Tammy’s obsession with alliteration. You decide.
The third course is a mix of learning how to cover cakes and make decorations with fondant and how to make larger flowers out of royal icing. Only two cakes needed for the class. Here’s my first one.
Everything you see is fondant. There’s some buttercream icing, but it’s underneath the fondant. Working with the fondant was a lot easier than I expected. Coloring it was pretty easy and not messy at all. It was a matter of kneading the color into the fondant, kind of like pulling taffy.
