Way back when I started working on my master’s, I knew I was going to have a graduation party once I was finished. And I knew it was going to be book themed…to go along with my master’s in library media education. So after I graduated Friday night, we had my graduation party the next […]
cake decorating course 2 week 3
This week we learned how to make some more flowers out of royal icing. (please pardon the pictures – I have no idea why they all turned out so bad!!) Rose – this is the second rose we learned (you can see the first one here) and I think like this one better. It’s much […]
cake decorating course 2 week 2
This week we learned flowers, flowers, and more flowers. While last week we used fondant to make our flowers, this week we used royal icing. Royal icing is basically just water, sugar, and meringue powder (at least, the Wilton version is). It’s edible, although I don’t think it tastes very good, and it dries super […]
cake decorating course 2 week 1
Tuesday night I started the Wilton cake decorating course 2: flowers and cake design. I loved everything that I learned during course 1 and so I wanted to take it a step further and learn how to do more intricate flowers. In this course we will learn how to make several types of flowers each […]
April block of the month
The two blocks we did for April were totally different from any of the others we have learned. The main difference was that these were done almost entirely by hand. To make the hexagons we used a method called English paper piecing where we cut hexagons out of card stock, wrapped the fabric around them […]