Baby Shower Sleeping Babies

 

Materials Used:



Colored Mini Marshmallows
Black Food Coloring
Colored Cupcake Liners
Chocolate, White, Yellow, and Red Candy Melts
Blue Food Coloring
Brown Food Coloring
Teddy Grahams
Candy Molds
Toothpicks
Chocolate Frosting
Teddy Grahams

I made these sleeping babies using standard size cupcakes for the body. The heads were made in my Baby Cakes mini cupcake machine which I just absolutely love.  I secured the head to the body using two toothpicks.  The bonnets and pillows were made using colored marshmallows which I secured by piping small dabs of canned chocolate frosting.  The bottles and rattles were molded using candy melts. Teddy Grahams were used for the little bears. The eyes and hair were piped on using black icing.   Buttercream icing was the choice for this project.

Princess and the Frog Cake

 

 

Princess and the Frog cake was made using the frozen buttercream transfer technique instead of the piping technique used in Wilton Course 1 Lesson 2.

 

I found a coloring page of Princess Tiana.  I traced the picture using a black sharpie so that the picture would show through on the other side of the paper.  I turned the picture over to the transverse side and taped it to the back of a cookie cutter sheet.  I then covered the picture with wax paper and piped the outline with black icing.  I filled in the colors with brown, red, and green icing.  I completely covered the back with white icing.  The picture was placed in the freezer for about 90 minutes.  After it was completely frozen, I placed the picture on top of the cake and outlined the design in white and placed  the green zigzag border taught in lesson 2 around the cake using Wilton Tip 18. 

Rabbit Hole Cupcakes

 

 

I made these cupcakes with my kids for Easter.  I found the idea in the What's New Cupcake book and altered the recipe a little. I did not use the circus peanuts and chocolate covered sunflower seeds.  They were pretty quick and easy to make.  

Materials Used:

Yellow cake mix
Cream Cheese Icing
Chocolate Icing
Green Wilton Paste Food Coloring
Whopper Malted Eggs
Flower Candy Decals
Oreos
White Fondant


Directions:

We started out by baking 24 yellow cupcakes.

 

Grass cupcakes-Wilton grass tip (Tip 233) and cream cheese icing dyed green using Wilton green paste food coloring.

Dirt cupcakes-6 cupcakes were iced with chocolate frosting and rolled in crushed oreos

                         

 

Bunny cupcakes-white fondant was rolled and shaped into bunny feet and tails.  I used brown icing to pipe the bottom of the feet and to hold the feet and tail in place.

 

 

We strategically placed the burrowing bunnies throughout the grass cupcakes and finished decorating the grass with Whopper Malted Eggs and Flower Candy Decals.



 

Teddy Bear Cake

Lesson 1 teaches about choosing the right pan, preparing cake pans, mixing batter, filling the pans, testing for doneness, removing the cakes, making icing, preparing the bags with couplers, leveling the cakes, icing the cake, and decorating tips.

 

I made the icing according to the recipe in the book and decided to use it for practicing since I don't really care for the taste or texture.  I was pretty familiar with preparing my bag with the tip and coupler as I learned it from the class last year.  My practice with using the star tip went well.

 

My final product for this lesson: The Teddy Bear Cake



 

Materials Used:

 

Wilton's teddy bear pan

 

Star Tip 18

 

Candy eyes (found at Wal-Mart)

 

Decorating candy string for the mouth and to outline the feet (found at Wal-Mart)

 

Chocolate chip morsels for the nose, mouth, and nails

 

Homemade Cream Cheese icing

 

Wilton brown, blue, and red food coloring paste

 

Lessons Learned

 

Cream cheese icing gets soft really quickly and makes it difficult to pipe designs.  I had to keep refrigerating the icing to harden it up so the bear took quite a while to decorate.

 

Use dark cocoa powder in icing to help cut down on needing to use so much food coloring.

 

Make sure to release bag before lifting tip.  This helps with getting a better shape for the stars.

 



Wilton Course 1-Decided to Learn

 

 

I have decided to teach myself how to decorate cakes.  This is my second attempt at learning.  I tried to take the Wilton course last year but did not have a very good instructor so I became a little discouraged.  I've decided to give it another try because I enjoy being creative and baking.  To get me started, I purchased the Wilton Course 1 kit, Course 1 book (not included in the kit),  cake leveler,  food coloring paste, and few additional items (apron, plenty of paper towels, scissors, tape, spatulas, cake pans, and muffin tins).

     

Follow my journey through learning how to decorate with Wilton Course 1.