Wilton Cake Decorating - Course 2

I completed course 2 last night! We made lots of flowers but only one cake.

We learned to make buttercream rosebuds, mums and a few new borders (rosette, reverse shell - which I couldn't grasp! and the rope border. We also learned how to make royal icing and color flow to make a butterfly (color flow) and apple blossoms, violets, violet leaves, daisies, daffodils, pansies & primroses (royal icing). My kitchen is now littered with Ziploc tubs of colored royal icing and color flow - better make some more flowers for future use!

At our last class, we had to bring a cake to decorate with the basket weave and put our flowers on from previous classes. I decided to try my hand at chocolate buttercream - very yummy!! It turned out well considering I was in a super hurry to get it done and on the cake before class!!

On to the next course - Fondant & gum paste!!!!