Baskets, birds and beautiful flowers

After the excitement of course 1, my friend and I couldn't wait to get started on Wilton course 2.  It's all about royal icing in this course and you learn how to pipe royal icing flowers, which dry hard and can be stored for later use.  Very exciting and here is the final cake after 4 lessons.  It was soooo pretty I couldn't bare to eat it!

Oh baby!

I did this cake for my neighbour, Geeta, who wanted to surprise her relative who was having a baby shower.  I used the Wilton baby bottle pan to make the cake, followed the instructions on it and the cake came out easily.  Then I followed the shape of the cake with icing.  It took absolutely ages to ice as I was very nervous about getting it neat and nice.  But well worth the effort and patience I think.  My neighbour was very pleased with it, as was her relative :)

Roses

This is the second cake in Wilton course 1.  So another excuse to use buttercream icing.  This time we learnt how to use the icing to pipe roses.  Not an easy task!  But loads of fun!  Especially when you get to eat what you made. YUM!

I Can See A Rainbow

I'm so excited!  I have been waiting a long time to ice a cake and I have finally, finally done it!  I don't know why it took me so long to do so, maybe I was intimidated by the piping, but I finally signed up for Wilton course 1 and learned how to make frosting and handle an icing bag.  It was a lot of fun and I wish I had done it sooner.  But hey, it's done and I'm really proud of my first cake :)