Aracntna,
Well kiddo you are already ahead of me as I have never taken any of the Wilton courses!
I like cream cheese icing with spice cakes, carrot cakes and a lot of people use it with Red Velvet cakes. although I prefer the regular white cooked icing with those.
A lot of folks cannot work with cream cheese icing for decorating, you might be best off using a regular buttercream to decorate with.
Have you done basketweave? That would be nice with the roses on top. Have you ever done lattice work on the sides of a cake? That is fun to do and looks lovely too. It is easy to do. You just take a toothpick or skewer or something and draw out your lines all one way and then trace over them using the staight eged basket weave tube. I leave a space in between the lines, the width of the tip I am going to use, so it is easy to mark off. Like this://////////// on the side of the cake. Then when you have all of you lines going the one way, you do them on the same angle but the opposite way like this:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\This will create the little "v"'s or diamond that lattice is. I like it on a contrasting colour background. For example a light green or pink background that you have flat-iced your cake with and then the lattice in white. You can even match up your lines afterwards on top and do lattice on the top. What I sometimes do it take a shape in the centre of the top of the cake, like a round or oval that I trace out. I leave this area free of the lattice work so it looks like a picture frame in the centre. Then I put a few roses in the centre. You can also have roses peeping out of your lattice work on top.
I didn't realize you have just done the one course. I don't know how long you have been decorating. But you know what, most folks should actually take all of the courses and have a lot of experience with decorating regular cakes before they even attempt a wedding cake unless they need to do one for a family member or a friend. So this may all well be a blessing in disguise for you.
You can learn an awful lot from books too, I find the Wilton books with instructions, very helpful.
So just have fun trying out new things!
Hugs Squirrelly Cakes
carrot cake with cream cheese icing sounds great!!! I think I will make that this weekend and then use buttercream to do the basketweave on the sides to make it look like a basket of carrorts. I will make the carrorts on top. Thanks for the idea SquirrellyCakes. My husband loves carrot cake.
Hhmn, carrot cake is very good for breakfast, you get all the major food groups. You get the cheese for protein and dairy, raisins for the fruit group, nuts for protein, carrots for you veggie serving. Haha, well we won't mention the sugar and oil, haha!
Heehee, I am very bad. I have a theory that we don't truly appreciate desserts when they are eaten after a meal. So one of my favourite things to do, is to eat cake, first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. Carrot cake is one of my favourites first thing. It is a running joke in my family.
Heehee, I know, it is a bad example!
Hugs Squirrelly Cakes
Normally the chain stores which have bakeries in them use either Rich's BetterCream or Flavor Right Whip N Ice. Unfortunately, they both come in buckets, and there is no recipe.
There is a very nice icing recipe that SquirrelyCakes posted earlier this month, that she said goes with Red Velvet Cake.
SquirrelyCakes, would you please post it again? She is going to need your large batch recipe.
Theresa 
could you please give me the recipe that tmriga said about a whipped icing, I what to do a cake but using whipped icing the icing that stores use im new at this I need connections in were to buy this or to buy deco for cheap could any body help me.
thank you much
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