My Wilton cake decorating course #3 has sadly come to an end and this was the final cake I made for class.  Hard to believe that barely a month ago I’d never worked with fondant before and now?  Well, all I can say is I just love doing fondant cakes!   I started doing cake decorating over ten years ago but it’s just now that I’ve learned fondant techniques.  I was so intimidated for sooooooooo long but quite honestly fondant is incredibly versatile,  pretty darn forgiving… and a whole lotta fun :)   It’s SO much fun that I’m doing my very first giveaway – all with the intended purpose of sharing the fun with one lucky reader!

I’ve taken a few Wilton cake decorating courses and the techniques I’ve learned have come in really handy in a variety of ways.  From jazzing up brownies to decorating cupcakes to making gumpaste flowers to doing full out tiered cakes… and I really enjoy it.   This final cake was quite a challenge – but totally in a good way.  I hadn’t before covered a cake in black fondant and I discovered it was more difficult than white fondant.  You see, when you have white buttercream under white fondant if there’s a small tear in the fondant it’s not nearly as noticeable as white buttercream peeking thru a small tear in black fondant! LOL!  The “quilted” look and making fondant swags were not taught in class but I had seen them done on other cakes so I searched the internet for information on how to do work it out :)   And most importantly I learned that no matter how much time I think a cake is going to take… I’m wrong and it’ll take longer so add plenty of “extra” time :)

And because so many people have emailed with questions and wanting to get started with cake decorating classes or further their cake decorating skills,  I’m giving away one $50 gift card to Michael’s Arts & Crafts store.  Michael’s offers Wilton cake decorating classes on a regular basis and it’s such a terrific way to develop your skills… and meet some great people as well.   To enter the giveaway all you have to do is leave a comment on this post telling me how you’d spend the $50 gift card :)  Maybe you’ve never done any cake decorating and you’d spend it on your first course!  Maybe you’ve already done some cake decorating and would spend it on additional supplies!  Or maybe you’re not into cake decorating at all and you’d spend it on scrapbooking paper or something entirely different!  But whatever it is leave a comment before midnight PDT on Sunday August 9th and you’ll be entered.  Limited to US or Canadian residents this time around :) I’ll randomly draw a number and announce the winner on my site.  Be sure to enter so you have a chance to win!!

Thanks everyone – entries are now closed.

Even though my class is over, I’ll be continuing to make fondant covered cakes – in fact I’ve promised my coworkers!  Pretty much most of what I bake they’re the ones who get to eat it :)

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