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I made this cake for my parents' 40th anniversary party. It is a variation on the "Pansy Basket" cake from the 1997 yearbook (top tier) with the pillars from the Wilton 3 cake decorating class
White cake made with the Wilton Fire Truck pan and frosted with Wilton colored icing (the kind sold in tubes).
This is an example of why I always make a practice cake first. When decorating this cake, I learned that buttercream icing will melt and become gloppy if one tries to cover an entire cake with stars, and said buttercream may not be adequate to support additional decorations (like the garlands that were sliding down the cake). I used mini M&Ms as ornaments because I knew buttercream flowers would be too heavy.
I used the "Thomas the Tank Engine" pan to make this cake for my son's second birthday. The cake itself is a chocolate cake made from a mix.
This is one of the cakes I made for my son's second birthday. It's a banana cake made from my grandmother's recipe.
This is the lamb cake I made for Easter, and I've never had so many problems with a cake before! I was interrupted while frosting it, so I put it in the microwave to keep it safe. My husband removed it, and smashed the frosting on the top of the lamb's head. While doing the face, I bumped into the mouth, so I had to redo that part. As I was redoing that part, I bumped the chin, so I had to fix that. I breathed a big sigh of relief after I put that cake on the dinner table!
This is my first attempt at the "Fun-n-Fluffy" lamb cake. I made it the week before Easter so I'd find out about any quirks associated with the 3D lamb pan. I didn't put hooves on the lamb because I planned to cover the base with flowers. I used Betty Crocker's pound cake mix, and it was too bland for my taste.
This cake is an adaptation of the lilly cake in the Wilton 3 course book. It's my first attempt at making a diagonal pattern on the sides of a cake, so they leave something to be desired. The ornament was from my own wedding cake. (It's 10 years old, so it's probably discontinued.)
This is my third cake from the Wilton I class. As you can tell, I had quite a bit to learn about making roses!
This is the second cake I did for my Wilton I class. I can't claim credit for the icing on the cake -- I'd been having a very busy week and the only way I'd have a plain, frosted cake for class night was to buy it.
This is my first cake from my first Wilton class. I made it to serve at a staff meeting at work and I figured that putting the date and time of the meeting on the cake would be a handy reminder.
I made this cake for my mother-in-law's birthday. It's based on the Pansy Basket cake on the cover of the 1997 Wilton yearbook, but it's a smaller cake. The pansies are royal icing. The purple and yellow pansies are spatula striped, the white pansies with burgundy edges and the yellow pansies with darker yellow edges are brush striped, and all of the centers of the pansies are hand-painted. (The edges of the leaves are also hand-painted.)
Thomas had two "first birthday" parties. This cake was for the actual date. I took the design from the cake I'd made for his first party and adapted it for an eight-inch cake.
Thomas had two first birthay parties because one of his grandmas was going to be overseas for the actual event. This cake was for the party before his actual birthday and it's the first cake I'd made in nine years. The design is from the 1997 Wilton yearbook. I didn't use fondant because my husband dislikes its taste. The "fireworks" are tip 13 stars on florist wire inserted into flower spikes.
I was using an old Course 2 kit that didn't have the oval pan and I wasn't willing to spend the money on the oval pan set. The idea for this cake came from the pansy basket cake on the cover of the 1997 Wilton Yearbook. The top layer is a slice from a layer made with the "sports ball" pan.
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