Here is my Aug. 2011 Wilton Decorating basics class.

Here is the class of Aug. 2011 Wilton Decorating Basics. They were the first class to ask me to take their picture.  Look at the concentration on their faces. I love my job teaching cake decorating.  I get to watch the classes get excited about what they are learning.  Congratulations ladies on what you accomplished in the class. Your Final cakes show your hard work and concentration.  I've posted the cakes from your class on the decorating basics class page.

Stephanie

Here is my niece and her husband on there wedding day. Isn't she beautiful! I know I'm really late updating my blog. I'm catching up.
She had a chocolate caramel cake with Italian butter cream caramel icing. There is white chocolate fondant covering it that had hand painted fondant ribbons made to look like aspen bark. This cake was a survivor, it had a very ruff time driving up the canyon and needed to be repared once I got up there. Delivery is always the most stressfull time in doing a wedding cake. I'm glad it turned out well in the end as I wanted my nieces day to be the best ever.

A friend of my parents is a wood worker. he made the cake stand for me. He even made a new tool so he could make it.

Love you Stephanie and Slade.

Wilton Classes

I have updated my Wilton class pages. The pictures from the July classes are up!

Happy Smurfday!

This is a birthday cake for a fellow Smurf lover. I loved watching them as a kid. Happy Birthday Tyana.
The cake is a blue vanilla cake with a strawberry rhubarb cream filling. This has beautiful smurffet. There are a few royal icing flowers as well. My favorite is baker smurf. (no surprise there I'm sure.) I'm afraid I'm not much of a photographer, thus the fuzzy picture.

Wilton Casses

Thanks to Amanda I was able give my blog a face lift and to add some pages and a calender ( by the ..I was able to... it means that Amanda helped me add them). Thank you Amanda. I'm teaching Wilton Classes at Michael's in Orem, which I am enjoying very much. I'm setting up a page for each class. The calendar is nice for showing the classes for the month with dates and times.

The pages for each class will have the information for each class. They will also show the final cakes of each class for those who want me to post it. I thought it would be fun for you all to see what each class is learning and to get ideas from each other. There are some really creative, cute, beautiful, fun, etc. cakes that are made at the end of class. I think its great you all will be able to see them.
I will be showing the classes I will be teaching and also be showing the Classes Rachel will be teaching as well. Rachel is a very wonderful Wilton Instructor that has been teaching for several years. I will only be showing her classes on my calendar. I wont be showing pictures from the classes she teaches.

A note of thanks and credit to Amanda for her help. The back ground on my blog is actually of her design. Her web page to Campbell Photography http://blog.campbellphotographyutah.com is linked on this page as well.

Here is a fun birthday cake I did for a friends daughter. All the music notes and the sweet 15 with notes are out of royal icing. the icing is italian buttercream. yum yum.

Georgia

This cake has a fun story behind it. The bride let her sister plan the wedding for her since she was out of state. The bride didn't even know what the cake looked like until she got there. That is trust. Georgia’s sister is very smart letting her plan it. It was a beautiful reception from what I saw.

This is a Chocolate caramel cake on the bottom and a white chocolate cake for the top layer. Since they didn't need as much cake the middle layer is rice crispy treets. The layers are taller than normal, the bottom is 7", the middle is 6" and the top is 5". They are covered in caramel Italian butter cream and then chocolate fondant. Dark chocolate is used to pipe the dark scroll work and a white chocolate is used to make the white drapes that wrap around the cake. They match the pleats on the brides dress. I had never done the pleats and drapes before. I learned a lot on this cake. It was so much fun.

That is the first time I worked with this kind of white chocolate pearl clay too. It worked real well once I got the hang of it. My hands are hot so I had to be careful to not get it too warm. It tastes very good too. I got the pearl clay recipe from one of Jennifer Dontz CDs on fondant cakes.