Wilton Flowers and Cake Design - Class 1

Last week was the first lesson of the final cake decorating class that Wilton offers at Michaels. This class is all about flowers. I have a different teacher (if you want to even us the word teacher) as well as new classmates. The teacher didn't instruct us or demonstrate any of the techniques. She mainly just sat there. At the end she had to demonstrate how to make royal icing and complained through the whole process. From now on I guess I better read the instruction book before class so I have some sort of an idea of what I'm doing.

The first class mostly dealt with gum paste and fondant. The other students in my class haven't taken the Fondant and Gum Paste class yet so they found it interesting. I found it boring. I looked through the instruction book and the only week we use fondant or gum paste is the first lesson and we only make two flowers. These could easily be added to the other class. I felt bad for the other students who had to waste their money on those supplies but I guess they can hang on to them for the next class.

We learned to make two flowers during class time - the button flower (on the left) and a pansy (on the right). They both need some improvement. After making the flowers we found out that you should use more than one color to make flowers.