Wilton Class- How Many Are They, Never Taken Them.
Decorating By prettycake Updated 2 May 2006 , 11:28pm by AmyBeth
Hi,
I'm just curious, when you take the Wilton Classes, how many courses are there that you have to take ?
I have never been in any Wilton Class. I would like to sign up to one and just see for myself. Do they ask everyone to create the same design of cake ? I'm very clueless about Wilton Courses.. 
I would like to know this too. I have never taken a wilton class either. i took a class at the local college which gave me very lil info. So I would be interested to know about the wilton classess.
There a 3 seperate Wilton Courses that each run 4 weeks longs, once a week. You do have to make the same type of cake as everyone else in the class because the cakes have the techniques you are learning incorporated in them. I know in my class (Course 3), the teacher is very leniant and lets us choose our own shape of cake and colors but I have heard some instructors make you do it by the book. The classes are wonderful, very fun, I would highly recommend that you take them!
There are 3 wilton courses. course 1 is the begginer course- learn the rose, shell border and a few other things.
Course 2 is the basket weave cake and a few other things
course 3 is the tiered cake and some fondant
The class gets a choice between 2 cakes to make (at least when I took the class)
There is 3 courses of Wilton classes. You don't have to take all 3 but I did and loved them. At the last one I wished that they had more classes.
Jacqui
Each wilton class is 4 - 2 hour classes. Depending on your instructor will depend on what you do in your class. My instructor let us do what we wanted within the guidelines of the course. There are 3 courses... course one explains icing, how to ice a cake, fill a bag and make roses. Course 2 more royal icing flowers and course 3 fondant and lily nail flowers. I learned alot from my instructor and had a blast with the people in the class.
The Wilton Classes I took at Michael's consists of 3 parts, Part I, II & III. Each course has 4 classes of 2 hours each one.
Class I is basically icing a cake, borders and the rose.
Class II is royal icing flowers and color flow and also more borders.
Class III is fondant, more royal icing flowers and a couple of more borders.
It was a starting point for me but I have also learned a LOT here at CC reading all the posts.
HTH
I live in a small town southwest of Wichita, KS. We have a wonderful cake supply store....and the owner brought an instructor down from Wichita. This girl is an artist with gumpaste. I feel very fortunate to have her so near!!!! She has studied with Nicholas Lodge and many others.
Wilton courses are very informative and a very good "jumping off point".
I also have learned a lot here on this website, but it would have been much more overwhelming for me if I didn't have the basics from the courses. Before taking the classes I had never really decorated a cake.
Every instructor is different. My instructor let us do what we wanted. I had fun coming up with my own designs. I am an instructor now. I also let me students decorate how the want.
I guess it depends on the instructor.
I totally agree with AmyBeth. There's a world of decorating information out there. Wilton is not the end all be all by any matter of means~ but very good at the fundamentals. Their gumpaste methods are very elementary. They were a springboard for me. It's become a science and an art!
I have seen your cakes. You are way too advanced...you would intimidate the other students! You might even intimidate the teacher! 
Michael's in Folsom teaches them...usual fee is $25 plus the kit ($20-30, but you might already have all the stuff in the kit). Last month they had a special, half price classes. So it was $12.50...and at the end of this class I got a $5 coupon, and they also ran the special, so my course two tuition was only 7.50.
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