My final Wilton Course 3 Cake!

My final cake class was completed last Monday night. This class was a lot of tedious work with fondant and creating the Wilton roses, learning new flower techniques and tiered cakes...great class!

Truth be told, with all the baking for the holidays, baking cakes for my 4 week class, and baking a spice cake for my son's birthday last Sunday, I now need a break from baking (and all the sugar)!

Here's a photo of my tiered fondant cake that I had to make for class:

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And here's a close-up of some of my fondant roses:

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My 'Fondant' Cake...and updated Birthday Blog Candy Winner...

As I mentioned on Monday, I took a 'Wilton fondant cookie' class, and am now taking a four week 'Wilton fondant cake' class. Here's a picture of my first 'fondant' cake...it looks like a birthday present with a bow and curly ribbon. It's an 8x8 two layer french vanilla cake with a thin layer of strawberry in the middle.  I love how smooth the fondant looks:

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P.S. updated birthday candy winner:


CONGRATS TO #9: Gwen said...
Happy Birthday! and thanks for sharing the joy by having a giveaway! :)

GWEN, please email me at: jenstampin4u@aol.com with your address and I will ship out your goodies right away...you have 48 hours to contact me! Hope to hear from you soon!

"Fondant" Cookies...and Baseball...

Okay, so one of the classes that I have recently taken was a Wilton Cookie Class. In this class they showed us how to make Christmas cookies with 'fondant'. You know, fondant is the thin sugar layer that you roll out and it looks so smooth over a cake...no wrinkles, no lines, looks so perfect! It was a fun class and we added cookie sticks so we could put them together in a bouquet. Since this was a trial run, I didn't make the cookie bouquet. However, I am making some of these cookies for Christmas gifts and will put the bouquet arrangements together then for each family. The Wilton sugar cookie recipe is quite delicious too!

Here is a picture of the cookies that I made (the one of the left is not finished, but those colors are pieces of fondant that I was playing with):

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Tomorrow, I'll share the fondant cake that I made.

Also, I wanted to share one picture from my son's baseball tournment this past weekend. This photo was Austin on first base and the other team was trying to pick him off...to get him out. Here he is sliding back to first base and NO that girl didn't tag him out. They tried to pick him off a few times and he was safe every time. He wouldn't have liked it if a girl got him out...there are very few girls that play competitive baseball, especially in the 14U age bracket..yay for girls!

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