Check out this very cool dragon cake I saw on Cake Central.

Protector of the Flame – 2010 Fairies and Dragons Cake Contest by Bry-ice on CakeCentral.com. Please leave a comment on the page linked above if you like this cake.

Today was my last class. We only really learned how to complete the Wilton rose. We were all struggling with getting them decent looking. Mine don’t look much like the Wilton rose but at least they look like flowers!  This is what the cake is suppose to look like…

One thing I found out was never frost a frozen cake, the moisture make the frosting not stick which is why my frosting has lots of crumbs in it. I had a hard time with the roses and then when I got the hang of it my frosting was soft so they kept tipping over. I wasn’t very good with the shell border either, it was the first time doing it on a cake. Doing it on a practice board was easier than on a cake. The bow is okay but my frosting was too soft and I forgot to draw the stems together. I am happy with how Happy Easter turned out even though I didn’t have much room. Check out my cake below…

Not sure if I am going to take any more classes. They are expensive when you include on the cost of supplies, frosting and cakes.

Today we had to bring in cupcakes to decorate. We started by learning the next step in the Wilton rose. We learned to make the shell border, which I thought was rather easy.

We also learned how to make those awful (in my opinion) looking clowns, luckily my teacher was giving out clown heads because I wasn’t going to buy one!

We also learned to make the spiral drop flowers seen here, but by the time we got to those my frosting was so soft that they just became a mess. Then it was time to decorate our cupcake. Of course our frosting was so soft that all of our cupcakes looked rather messy. I did mostly the spiral flowers, since they were the easiest and I still had the tip on. I did make some aliens (my frosting was green) too. Sorry I didn’t take any photos of my horrible cupcakes

Today we got to learn how to make the first step of the Wilton Rose. We also learned how to make stars, various borders and dots, as well as how to write in icing. We also learned to make a transfer using piping gel. That was very easy. The instructor said I have delicate hands, she thought I did very well with the writing but when I had to really squeeze the frosting out I wasn’t as consistent.

Since it is St. Patrick’s Day I did a Shamrock transfer. Take a look at the cake I decorated…

The cake was made using a Duncan Hines Yellow cake mix. I then filled it with my own Chocolate Filling recipe. And then frosted it with the Wilton Buttercream frosting recipe, which is not very good but it doesn’t go bad which is perfect for class. Usually I would use this Buttercream recipe instead.

I have decided that I wish to take up cake decorating. So I had signed up for the Wilton Cake Decorating Course at Micheal’s. My first class was today. I was very excited and brought way too much stuff with me for the first day (all I needed was a pen and notepad and I brought all my decorating supplies). My class was okay. I didn’t really learn anything new. It was more like going to a Wilton party, it was all about Wilton products with some instruction on making frosting and frosting a cake. A little disappointed. Maybe my next class will be better. I have a bake a cake and frost it before class.

I did end up spending way too much as more decorating supplies. The instructor is really good at selling the product. I ended up buying a Cake Icer Tip #789, a Featherweight 16 Inch Decorating Bag, Decorating Leaf Tip #67, a 13″ spatula and a cake leveler. Luckily you get 10% off for taking the course.

NOTE: If you take the course at Micheal’s you do not have to buy the course book, it’s included in the cost of the class. I already owned all four books.

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My daughter Casey is turning 1 in 3 months and I am starting to think about what I want her first birthday cake to look like. I think maybe I have been watching too much Cake Boss! I have decided to go all out and challenge myself again. On Liam’s 4th birthday, 6 months ago, I had made him this cake…

My son just loved it! I got the tutorial on how to make this cake here.

So I really enjoyed making this cake that I want to try something harder. So I have been looking around the web and I found a few cakes that inspired me…

And I have come up with this design… (pardon the very bad sketch)

So what do you think?