I finished up the 3rd wilton course thursday. We had to do a stacked cake as the grand finale. I had a ton of fun, and learned alot in the process of doing this one.
I had a slight disaster with it. It was 2pm thursday and I was just starting to cover the tiers with fondant for class at 6pm. I got the bottom tier's fondant all rolled out, placed it on the cake, started smoothing the one side and heard a funny noise. I dismissed it as the cat playing with something on the floor, and as I turned the cake to smooth the other side down, the fondant had torn (taking my buttercream with it) right off from the top edge on the one whole side. So I peeled the rest of it off the cake, threw it in the garbage, sat down had a cry and started again.
The fondant on the top tier is a little lumpy since I didn't really have enough left after my disaster to roll it as thick as I would have liked, so I just stretched what I had.
Moral of the story...making cakes is easy, learning how to fix your mistakes is the hard part!
Thanks for looking!!
beautiful job!! looks like the classes were a reall success!!!
the only thing i see that might affect the overall stability or appearance is the size of the bottom cake board...those flowers are so beautiful that it would be a shame for them to be chipped or broken in transport. once again,definitely a job to be proud of!!
Very nice!!! I can't wait to take the classes.
Great job on the cake!!!
I was going to suggest though that if you ever have this problem again you can just reuse the fondant if it hasn't dried out yet. If you have a lot of bc on the fondant you could always take some of it off. Just rework the fondant and roll it out again. It will absorb the bc.
Wow, what a great job! As a Wilton instructor, those flowers aren't even in the lesson plan! Your instructor must not follow the lesson plans, but I LOVE, LOVE the flowers!!
Wow, what a great job! As a Wilton instructor, those flowers aren't even in the lesson plan! Your instructor must not follow the lesson plans, but I LOVE, LOVE the flowers!!
Thanks everybody!! I didn't know I could just scrape the buttercream off and re-use the fondant! I will keep that in mind for sure haha.
Our instructor didn't teach us those flowers in the course. She did stick to the lesson plans, but I wanted to know how to do them, so I taught myself.
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