My Wilton Goodies

Wow, it seems that I have been MIA for quite some time. I started my first full time college semester in August and unfortunately it took up almost all of my time until now. I am on winter break and finally have some free time!

Anyway, on to the exciting stuff. A little while back, Wilton held a Pin it and Win Scavenger Hunt Sweepstakes on Pinterest. The prize was $200 worth of any products from Wilton's website store. I entered the contest and was contacted a little while later and told that I was a winner! I had never been so exited to shop for things on the internet, and definitely never been so anxious waiting for a package to be delivered.

Here's a picture of the goodies that arrived!

I got 4 books: Wilton Wedding Style, Uses of Decorating Tips, Wilton Wedding Cakes - A Romantic Portfolio, and The Wilton School - Decorating Cakes. I also got a cake caddy, an icing comb set, a sports ball pan, a cake marker, a lady bug pan, a Princess Ariel pan, a tart/quiche pan, 2 fondant and gum paste molds (Baroque and Sea Life), FoodWriter edible markers, and Edible Accents pink hearts.

 And I wasn't the only one who was excited about the delivery. My cat, Milo, enjoyed what he got out of it, too. :)

 Many thanks to Wilton!

It's What's Inside that Counts

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Devil's Food Cake Cheesecake is what I saw on my favorite food blog, SprinkleBakes, a few days ago and I couldn't go much longer without having it in my life. So I decided to try to tackle the beast.

While this cake is pretty on the outside, the real star is the inside of it.

The bottom layer is devil's food cake, the middle is cheesecake, and the top is cookie dough. And I love the way the top isn't covered up by the buttercream, it's just around the sides, so the cookie dough can shine through.

If you would like the recipe, just click on the link at the top of this post. The buttercream tasted exactly like chocolate malt balls to me, it was delicious.  For the swirls around the top of the cake I used a Wilton tip 2D, and I used the "I love a little cookie dough" recipe.

I think I'll go have another piece now.

Cherry Pie...Cake?

I have always liked cakes that look like other foods, so this one went on my list of cakes to make as soon as I saw it. It was extremely easy, too!

All you do is bake a cake in a pie plate, put any kind of pie filling on top, and then pipe the lattice work on top of that. The recipe is posted here.
I used Ateco tip 48 on the smooth side for the lattice work and Wilton tip 12 for the outer "crust".

 

Happy new year everybody!

Character Cake

I'd never made a character cake before, so I decided to finally make one so I could add it to my repertoire.

We've had the pan for this little guy sitting away in a cabinet since my older sisters and I were toddlers and my mom made him for our birthday cakes. So, since we already had the pan, why not make it? Not to mention, he's pretty cute. 

I used Wilton tip #18 for his whole body and the bow, and for the lines of his mouth I used tip #3. For part of it I tried using tip #2010, which pipes 3 stars at a time, but I didn't feel like I had as much control as I did with tip #18 and I couldn't see exactly where the stars were going, so I switched back to #18. Yes, it took longer, but I liked it that much better.

Just look at that cute face!

There is no getting the first post back, so I'll just have to make do without it.  The gist of it was that I recently started taking Wilton cake decorating classes and my sister really wanted me to make a blog about my decorating "endeavors," so I finally decided to appease her. 

Here's a picture of the second cake I decorated in level one of the classes:

Then I made this cake outside of class for a couple of friends who were celebrating their first wedding anniversary:

Close up of the flowers.











Hopefully soon I will have pictures of what I've been working on recently in the third level of classes, Gum Paste and Fondant.