Saturday, June 5, 2010

Flowers and Cake Design Wilton Method Course


After completing Decorating Basics, Flowers and Cake Design is one of two additional Wilton Method courses you can choose. In Flowers and Cake Design, you’ll explore sophisticated ways to bring your cakes and desserts to life!

We will teach you to create breathtaking icing flowers such as pansies, lilies and the famous Wilton Rose. Then, you’ll discover the secrets of arranging them in a beautifully balanced cake-top bouquet.

Your amazing flowers will be framed by an impressive boarder treatment or basketweave design. With the skills you learn here and your ability to make flowers in advance using gum paste and fondant or royal icing, you can create beautiful blooms at your convenience, ready to place on any cake.

Topics covered in Flowers and Cake Design include:



  • Basic Principles of Cake Design
    Gum Paste and Fondant 101
    Button Flower
    Pansy
    Making Royal Icing
    Making a Parchment Bag
    Flower Nail
    Rose Base, Rose Center
    Apple Blossom, Primrose
    Rosebud
    Daffodil
    Violet
    Using the Lily Nail, Lily
    Making Stems
    Guidelines for Flower Arrangments
    Floral Cake Design
    Reverse Shell
    Basketweave
    Wilton Rose

For more information visit http://www.wilton.com/classes/flowers-cake-design.cfm

Decorating Basics Wilton Method Course


The Wilton Method® Decorating Basics Course is the perfect place to start! We will show you the right way to decorate, step by step, so that you experience the excitement of successfully decorating your first cake.

You’ll understand how to bake a great cake, see how to make and color icing and learn the best way to ice the cake. You will also practice the three fundamentals of decorating, enabling you to approach each technique the right way for great results.

Along the way, you’ll learn to create icing drop flowers, rosettes, shells, pompom flowers, leaves, shaggy mums, and the ribbon rose. You’ll also decorate cookies, cupcakes … and of course cakes!
Not only will you quickly learn just how easy it is to create the perfect dessert for any occasion but you will also get to share the fun with other students, who encourage you along the way.




Topics covered in Decorating Basics include:



  • How to Bake a Great Cake
    Buttercream Icing
    Using Decorating Bags and Couplers
    Icing the Cake
    Leveling and Torting the Cake
    Using the Star Tip
    Drop Flower, Rosette
    Dimensional Decorating
    Shell
    Pompom Flower, Leaves
    Filling and Icing a Cupcake
    Guidelines for Elementary Cake Design
    Printing, Writing, Rose Base
    Piping Gel Pattern Transfer
    Ribbon Rose
    Guidelines for Decorating Your Cake


For more information visit http://www.wilton.com/classes/decorating-basics.cfm

June Classes

We have wonderful news. Wilton has new refresh curriculums with new projects and a lot of new techniques to learn.

You also receive a FREE GIFT from WILTON when you sign up for any four lesson course this month.


Save-a-thon across Kings Plaza is the only location that has the following classes so make sure to register a this location

SAVE-A-THON
2452 Flatbush Ave.
Brooklyn, N.Y. (718) 258-8500
Decorating Basics Course
Lesson 1
Wednesday 9
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Lesson 2
Wednesday 16
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Lesson 3
Wednesday 23
5:00 - 7:00 pm
Lesson 4
Wednesday 30
5:00 - 7:00 pm


Decorating Basics Course
Lesson 1
Saturday 5
10:00 - 12:00 pm
Lesson 2
Saturday 12
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Lesson 3
Saturday 19
4:00 - 6:00 pm
Lesson 4
Saturday 26
4:00 - 6:00 pm


Flowers and Cake Design Course
Lesson 1
Saturday 12
10:00 -12:00 pm
Lesson 2
Sunday 13
11:00 - 1:00 pm
Lesson 3
Saturday 19
10:00 -12:00 pm
Lesson 4
Sunday 20
11:00 - 1:00 pm


Gum Paste and Fondant Course
Lesson 1
Saturday 12
1:00 -3:00 pm
Lesson 2
Sunday 13
2:00 -4:00 pm
Lesson 3
Saturday 19
1:00 -3:00 pm
Lesson 4
Sunday 20
2:00 -4:00 pm




Advanced Cake Decorating Class
Baby Shower Cake
Saturday 26 1:00 -4:00 pm




Cupcake Project Class
Sunday 27 2:00 -4:00 pm

Advanced Cake Decorating Classes Pictures


I want to thank all the students for coming to the advanced classes. They made beautiful cakes and they learned new techniques. I hope you have a lot of fun at class.

Here are some pictures of the finished cakes.

I will see you at the next Advanced Cake Decorating Class on Saturday June 26. We will be making a Baby Shower Cake.


Baby Shower Cake






My First Birthday Cake



Mini Purse Cake Class








Mother's Day Cake Class









Thank you!

Monday, April 19, 2010

Mother's Day Cake Class


Take your cake decorating skills to the next level.

Join us to celebrate Mother's Day with a beautiful cake.

We will make a flower bouquet cake in our Advance Cake Decorating Classes you using different techniques as:

· Cake Shaping
· Stacking cakes
· Fondant modeling
· Different types of flowers and bows
· And much more……..

Don’t miss this opportunity to create a unique cake.

SATURDAY, MAY 8
1:00 – 6:00 PM

Join the fun and register today!
Class fee $ 25.00
Essential supplies:
3 6 by 2-inch round cakes
1 10 or 12-inch silver cake base
1 6-inch cake board
4 wooden dowels
1 Wilton 10pc. Fondant Gum Paste Tool Set
1 each pink, yellow, blue, orange, red and Leaf green, Kelly green, Moss green Wilton Icing Color
1 Wilton Decorator Icing White 5 lbs. tub or 2 recipes of buttercream icing medium consistency
1 Wilton White Ready To Use Rolled Fondant 5 lbs. Package
1 Wilton Gum-Tex container
1 Wilton Easy-glide fondant smoother
1 Wilton roll and cut mat
1 Wilton cutter/embosser
1 Wilton 9 in. and 20 in. Rolling pin
1 Wilton Flowers cut-outs set
1 Wilton Leaf cut-outs set
1 Wilton clear vanilla extract
1 Wilton Clear Piping Gel
1 Paint brush
1 Small angled spatula
1 Small plastic bowls
1 Serrated knife
Shortening and confectioners’ sugar (powder sugar)
Wilton Practice board, Ziploc bags, Plastic wrap, Ruler, Toothpicks and Apron

May Classes

You will receive a FREE GIFT from WILTON when you sign up for any four lesson class.
Save-a-thon across Kings Plaza is the only location that has the following classes so make sure to register at this location.
SAVE-A-THON
2452 Flatbush Ave.
Brooklyn, N.Y. (718) 258-8500


Course I $ 40.00
Discover Cake Decorating

Lesson 1 Wednesday 5 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Lesson 2 Wednesday 12 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Lesson 3 Wednesday 19 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Lesson 4 Wednesday 26 5:00 - 7:00 pm


Course I $ 40.00
Discover Cake Decorating

Lesson 1 Saturday 8 10:00 - 12:00 pm
Lesson 2 Saturday 15 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Lesson 3 Saturday 22 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Lesson 4 Saturday 29 4:00 - 6:00 pm




Course II $ 40.00
Flower and Borders
Lesson 1 Saturday 15 10:00 -12:00 pm
Lesson 2 Sunday 16 11:00 - 1:00 pm
Lesson 3 Saturday 22 10:00 -12:00 pm
Lesson 4 Sunday 23 11:00 - 1:00 pm



Course III $ 40.00
Fondant and Tiered Cakes

Lesson 1 Saturday 15 1:00 -3:00 pm
Lesson 2 Sunday 16 2:00 -4:00 pm
Lesson 3 Saturday 22 1:00 -3:00 pm
Lesson 4 Sunday 23 2:00 -4:00 pm





Fondant and Gum Paste $ 40.00
Lesson 1 and 2 Saturday 29 10:00 -2:00 pm
Lesson 3 and 4 Sunday 30 11:00 -3:00 pm


CUPCAKE PROJECT CLASS

Bridal Shower Cupcake Class $ 15.00
Saturday 29 2:00 -4:00 pm


Baby Shower Cupacke Class $ 15.00
Sunday 30 3:30 -5:30 pm



ADVANCED CAKE DECORATING CLASSES


Mother’s Day Cake Class $ 25.00

Saturday May 8 1:00 -6:00 pm

Pull Apart Cupcake Cake Class

Pull apart cakes are the latest trend in cake decorating. It is a fantastic option for someone who would like to bring it to school or serve cupcakes at their party, yet want the look of a finished cake

A pull apart cake, also known as pull away cake or cupcake cake, is a cake which uses cupcakes as the base and is then frosted as one cake. Since these cakes are made out of cupcakes, they are made to “pull apart”.

In just one 2-hour class will introduce you to some of the basic skills of cake decorating using buttercream and fondant.
Don’t miss this opportunity to discover the fun of cake decorating.

SUNDAY, APRIL 25
11:00 – 1:00 PM
Essential supplies:
19 Standard size cupcakes (home-baked)
1 Wilton Icing Colors (blue, pink, yellow, orange, purple, red and green)
1 Wilton White Ready-t- Use Decorator Icing Container 5 lb. Tub
1 White Ready To Use Rolled Fondant package
1 Ready to use gel tube (black)
1 Wilton roll and cut mat
1 9 in. Rolling pin
1 16 in. Featherweight or Disposable Decorating Bag
2 Standard couplers
2 Wilton disposable decoration bags
1 Decorating tip s# 789 (Cake Icer) , #3, 21, 47 and 104
1 Circus Balloons Topper Set from Wilton (optional)
2 10 x 14 in. or 1 -13 x 19 in. Cake Board
1 Wilton clear vanilla extract
1 Paint brush
1 Small angled spatula
4 Small plastic bowls
1 Piece of Parchment Paper
Shortening and confectioners’ sugar
Wilton Practice board, Ziploc bags and Apron

Remember the only location where you can take this special classes is at:
SAVE-A-THON
2452 Flatbush Ave.
Brooklyn, N.Y. (718) 258-8500