The final Wilton Course 2 class...

And the final cake of Wilton Course 2... the basket weave cake. I'm proud of me! :P I really liked how it turned out. Here is the picture of the front:

The back and the top:


The inside, vanilla cake filled with 2 layers of doce de leite and 1 of cherries. The white cream should have done with the same color as the icing, but I forgot.


And here is me, with both certificates and both tired eyes lolol. Course 3 is coming up next week.


PS: I am using low quality pictures because this blog is temporary, I am working on my own blog layout and there I will use good quality pictures. I was just anxious for publishing what I've done.

Getting ready...

Here is what I had done for the basket weave cake. Unfortunately, the house and 1 of the birds made of color flow icing cracked when I was trying to take them out of the wax paper. And I didn't use all of the flowers. They were too many for the cake.

My wedding cake...

I made my own wedding cake. Simple, but we liked. Vanilla cake filled with 1 layer of peach creamy and another layer with pineapple cream decorated with butter cream icing.

Practicing and practicing...

Yeah, the Wilton Course 2 is more practicing flowers than anything. That's what we have done. Next class will be just in June and we will be finishing this course with a cake with all the flowers we've made.

Oh, and it's Royal Icing!! I loooooove it! It holds so much better than buttercream and after the flowers are dry, we can just put them into a container all together with no worries about breaking them. I just love it!! I just haven't have the brave enough to eat 1 of them, just because they look so nice!

My husband's birthday...

This was the cake I made for my husband's Birthday barbecue. It's a Brazilian recipe called pao-de-lo and again, I think it's the same as Angel cake, filled with bicho-de-pe which I already explained what is in another post, then I covered with chocolate ganache, but I didn't get the shiny one and the consistency I wanted. I have to try again. The first picture has the real colors, the second one was taken with another camera and didn't get to fix it.

Those are strawberry bombons. Strawberry covered with "white brigadeiro" and melted chocolate.

And this is strawberry covered with brown brigadeiro and chocolate sprinkles. I used to eat those a lot during my years in the University. The coffe shop there used to sell them and they were reaaaaally famous!

Last Wilton Class Course 1

This was the final class of the Wilton Cake Decorating Course 1. We mostly practiced flowers, leaves and roses. And there's the result. I iced the cake the night before at 12 am and I was sooo tired, then it doesn't look really nice. My first cake was iced much better lol I need to buy the tools for making details on the sides of the cake, they help hiding the mistakes. :P The bow wasn't that pretty because I left the icing open while practicing, so it was getting stiff which was making it hard to work with.
I used a Brazilian cake recipe and filled with chocolate ganache and bicho-de-pe, another Brazilian filling recipe. Those fillings were left over of my husband's birthday cake which I'll post here soon.
Next Monday I'll be starting the Wilton Cake Decorating Course 2! :)

I've had problems in adding the section "About me" and "Links", I'm trying to fix it. I guess I'll have to find or make another template 'cause this one has a problem and it hasn't allowed me to add those sections.

Third Wilton Class...

The third class of the Wilton Course 1 was really productive. I got to learn a few things that I've always thought it would be impossible to do hahaha I loved them.

The cupcakes we had to take done to the class and I chose vanilla cupcakes and mixed pieces of strawberry into the batter. I could have filled more the paper liners, but I was afraid they would grow too much since it was my first time using this recipe. By the way, it's a Brazilian recipe:

This one I tried putting 1 whole strawberry in the middle, but it was weird after baked. It was like a tent for the strawberry, I mean, just a thin layer of dough around it:

Those ones were the last load, so I filled the paper liners a little more and used
strawberry preserves to try as a filling:



I decorated this one with royal icing and I liked it a lot 'cause it really sits well:



And here is what it looks like inside with the pieces of strawberry mixed:



Now at the classroom, practicing roses:



Practicing the clowns using the icing:



Here at home putting all them together because I didn't get to take
all the pictures during the class:



Star flowers:



Final rose with blue grass :P I hadn't taken green icing this time:



Swirl flower:



This was the worst one, but it was enough to learn how to make bears:


And I fell in love with the clowns. They are so easy to make and turn out so cute!
I crossed the legs of this one :P

I just need to practice the hands and shoes more, I was tired and wanted
to finish them quickly, then I just squeezed dots on.

Ooops...

I just realized that I didn't take a picture of inside of the cake... Sorry, but actually it wasn't something wooooow... it was just a yellow cake with a red line of strawberry preserves...
I promise next things that will be filled I will take pictures of inside :P

My first decorated cake!!

Finishing the Wilton Course 1 - Lesson 2... view from the top of the cake.
I finished it this morning.

And here with the sides and details.
It's an orange cake filled with strawberry preserves.
We will try it tonight, when my husband gets home :)

Easter treats for my husband's family!

Sugar cookies decorated with royal icing.I still need to practice a lot the outlines.
But those ones were good, soft and tasty... way better than the first ones in the previous post.


Vanilla cupcakes with buttercream frosting


Fudge brownie covered with chocolate glaze and royal icing


All packed!


I have to find another way to display the cupcakes because
like that it's really unstable.


All together in the basket


The final Easter basket


A little present to another friends

And that's how it looks closed.

P.S.: I'm working on the pictures too. They are not very good, but when I took them, I wasn't thinking about displaying them in a website.

First shots..

It's Spring time! My first decorated vanilla cupcakes. All of those candies, cookies and cupcakes were made in March 2009 before I took the classes.

My Easter Chocolate Bunny and eggs basket

Those look funny, but are delicious! I filled them with

"coconut macaroons" (beijinho)

First chocolate candies!

First sugar cookies test that I made with whole wheat flour which doesn't make them soft!

Just beginning...

Hi, my name is Karen and my nickname has been Apple for years. I gave it to myself first in internet and my friends just got it and some only call me as Apple.

I've always liked cooking, specially sweets and finally decided to really do something with it. There's 2 stores which I love and where I have always bought my craft stuff: Michael's and AcMoore. I can spend hours there just having ideas for my crafts such as scrapbooking, collages, painting, cooking, etc. They have a lot of tools for cake, cookies, candies and brownies decorating and I finally started "playing" with them. I've learned some things by myself (they have books to teach you and I've read a lot in internet just googling), but nothing's like having a teacher to give you the right tips and correct you. The Wilton classes are really affordable and I'm in my second class. I'm going to put here the pictures of what I have done since the very beginning, what I've learned by myself and at the class.

I'll be showing American and Brazilian delights! And soon, some Polish too!
P.S.: I do have links for my other crafts, but I'm gonna write them here later.
Enjoy it!