Decorated Sugar Cookies

My first attempt at decorating a cookie with royal icing.  First I outlined in white, with tip 4.  Then I watered down the purple until it was school glue consistency.  Then I flooded the cookie using the same size tip, might have been tip 3 though.  Once dry to the touch I flooded the centre with yellow and immediately put sprinkles on it.  This was really fun to make!  Really enjoyed it! :)

Royal Icing Violets

So we learned how to do violets this past week with Royal Icing. I enjoy using Royal Icing more than Buttercream for doing flowers. :) Thanks for looking!

So I started my Wilton Course 2 cake decorating class this week. We learned how to do the rosebud and mum with buttercream icing. We'll be starting RI and colourflow next week. So I came home and decided to do a whole bunch these flowers and put them on my chocolate sour cream cup cakes today. I love making flowers! :) Thanks for looking!

White Vanilla Sour Cream Cake with Whipping Cream/Chocolate Pudding Frosting

This is the cake I made for my husband's birthday. White Vanilla Sour Cream cake with Whipping Cream/Chocolate Pudding frosting.  For the border I used chocolate fudge icing.  It was so delicious!

Final Cake in Wilton's Cake Course 1

So this was my final cake for Course 1.  We had to do roses, which is tricky, and I still need lots of practise, but here you go.  I made a vanilla cake, a cake mix plus a cake extender recipe, which had sour cream in it.  I really liked the recipe as it gave it a nice flavour and made the cake denser, so this time it didn't just fall apart. 

Also it made the cake bigger, as you can see, and after I put the roses on top I had a feeling that the cover for my cake carrier was going to crush the flowers.  Sure enough I noticed that is exactly what was happening, so I removed the lid, and took a picture with my phone.  This is why the picture isn't as nice as it could've been.

Next time I'll just fill my 8 inch, 2 inch deep pans, with three cups of batter each, instead of four.  :)

Valentine's Day Cupcakes

So I was in the Valentine's Day mood and made these cupcakes. Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream. I colour striped the bag to get the two tone affect. I used the 2D tip, Wilton's, the big closed star tip and built the stars up like a pyramid.  It was really easy and fun to do!

Baby Buggy Cupcakes

So these cupcakes were for course 1, lesson 3, our second "cake".  So I decided to do cupcakes, and since my friend is having a baby I decided to do these baby in a buggy design.  I saw the picture in the course book and thought they were so cute!  They were fun to make!