Wilton Course III Final Cake - Daisy's Birthday!

For Course III I chose to make my tiered cake without the column forms and simply stack two cakes atop one another. It was great fun to learn the fondant roses and Daisies and the royal icing lillies. The possibilities with fondant are endless - but I'm not a big fan of the taste. It's good the cake underneath also has buttercream icing and a raspberry filling. Yummmmmm.

Wilton Course III Fondant Present Cake

For Course III we learned how to roll and work with Fondant. It is quite a challenge to drpae a whole xcake - but worth the effort for the lovely effect. This present cake was taken to Milton for Mark and Sophie in honor of their March birthdays.

Violets for Violetta

It was fun to take my newfound basketweave skills and apply them to a little Violets cake I made for my mother for a visit during February.

Wilton Course ll Royal Icing Flowers

Daisy and I learned how to make basketweave designs with buttercream and spent the month of February learning royal icing flowers - roses, Daisies, violets, primroses, etc. Daisy made the pink and yellow cake and I made the one with candles! They were a blast to make and my favorite type of flowers by far.

Note that George has a frosting smiley face on the back of his shirt.....hmmmm. I wonder who did that!!!! (DAISY!)

Wilton Course I Finale (The Wilton Rose)

Daisy and I completed Course 1 at the end of January after learning the "Wilton Rose" out of buttercream. Daisy perfected the rose and made the beautiful white and pink cake and I made the Tiffany blue cake with white roses. We ate Daisy's (yum!) and gave the pink and white one to our neighbor, Susan and her family. Susan is a landscape Designer so we thought a rose cake would be fitting!