Crouton Creations

After watching way too many hours of Food Network I ended up becoming fascinated with cake decorating. I’ve tried decorating cakes in the past and honestly they sucked (tasty but ugly). I would normally just give up and cover them with candy so no one would noticed how badly frosted they were. This worked out well since they were for kids, but I really wanted to learn how to actually decorate a cake.

So jumping ahead a year, my friend Dawnee and I took a Wilton cake decorating class at Hobby Lobby when we found out they had the basic one available. The class was once a week for a couple hours, we learned how to frost the cake, make frosting, piping techniques and flower making.

I think my favorite part had to be learning to make the frosting. For the first class we had to buy some pre-made Wilton frosting and honestly it was awful. Thankfully the Wilton recipe is very good and customizable to any flavor you would want.

One of the classes we learned about piping by decorating cupcakes. Here are the ones I made.

Not the prettiest things ever but they were tasty, it’s an orange flavored cupcake and frosting with a chocolate filling.

I thought my final project came out pretty at least.

I stuck with the orange frosting(butter cream) but switched to a red velvet cake recipe I found online then added peanut butter chips to the center of the frosting flowers.

Dawnee’s final project came out beautiful, she made a cherry blossom design on her cake.

It’s red velvet cake with mint frosting and a raspberry filling, Yum!

Dawnee (Right) and I with our cakes

I’m nowhere near being an expert but I think I can make a prettier cake then I had been making.

Has anyone else taken the Wilton cake class? Let me know what you thought of it or better yet, I’d love to see your cake designs.