Cake Painting

I attended class with Dianna Lopez, from TLC's Ultimate Cake Off! She is an incredible cake artist, so much fun to work with! She taught us the Cake Painting techniques.

This is a 2 tier cake. The top tier is a dummy. The bottom tier had two layers of triple chocolate fudge cake with coconut cake in the middle covered in butter cream icing! And of course Satin Ice rolled fondant on top! Dianna kept few of her cakes to show us the techniques she used. I tried to implement everything and made bit of a mess! However the cake doesn't look so bad.

Wilton Course 3 Final Cake

Here is my Course 3 Final Tiered cake. Had to do lots of roses n buds...Took me quite a while with a kid around who wants to eat the roses! The top tier is a double layer chocolate fudge cake with chocolate buttercream icing and the bottom tier is a double layer carrot cake with buttercream icing, Covered with Satin Ice Rolled Fondant. The Fondant was tasting way better than the wilton's. This ivory wedding cake became my birthday cake and this is so far the biggest cake I had for my birthday! :)

Wilton course 2 final cake

There was only one cake i had to do for this course. We had to do Royal Icing for couple of classes. Made flowers - apple blosoms, violets, pansies, mum, daffodils, daisies! It was fun! A lot of time,i have heard Royal Icing was tough to work with..But i really loved it. The victorian roses came out really good with Royal Icing compared to the Buttercream ones. Also we made birds with color flow mix. One thing I learnt is that color flow tints fade. So its better to tint couple of shades darker to get the desired color range. I made my birds in sky blue and after couple of days, they were pale blue.

So, for the final cake i made a rainbow cake(read it in another blog) as we were planning to give the cake to one of our colleague's daughters. It was French Vanilla flavor with vanilla pudding filling. It was a great disaster on the day of the class when the cakes moved and my pudding got squeezed out. Somehow i managed to ice the cake again and started with basket weave. Its bit tacky, but as u get to roll, it seems quite easy..But hands hurt a lot...Ropes were very easy..So I ended putting all the flowers on my cake and by the time i drove back, OOOOOOOF, again cake splt! :(





So I started again! Now I made basket weave like a pro in 20 mins! Arranged flowers and ready to go!






And the kids were happy! :)