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Looking for some excitement and fun?

Try a Wilton cake decorating class!

                                      

 

 

       Have you ever wanted to learn how to make  the beautiful cakes that you see in the grocery stores and bakeries?   Click on the Class page to learn more. Classes are held in Cape Coral, Fl.

 

  

 

Discover Cake Decorating—Course 1  Deorating Basics

The Wilton Method® Decorating Basics Course is the perfect place to start! Your instructor will show you the right way to decorate, step by step, so that you experience the excitement of successfully decorating your first cake in a Wilton Method Course. 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. In addition, you’ll decorate cookies and cupcak es too!

Along the way, you’ll learn to create:

  • Icing drop flowers
  • Rosettes
  • Shells
  • Pompom flowers
  • Leaves
  • Shaggy mums
  • Ribbon rose

  

  Click here to be taken to Course I schedule

 

  
 Flowers and Cake Design—Course 2

Build on skills you learned in the Decorating Basics Course. You’ll explore sophisticated ways to bring your cakes and desserts to life! Your Wilton Method instructor will teach you to create breathtaking icing flowers such as pansies, lilies and the famous Wilton Rose. Next you’ll discover the secrets to arranging them in a beautifully balanced cake-top bouquet. Your amazing flowers will be framed by an impressive border treatment or basketweave design.

 

* For best results, Wilton recommends completing the Decorating Basics Course before taking Flowers & Cake Design.



 
 
 
 
 Gum Paste and Fondant-Course 3

You’ll discover one of the most exciting and satisfying ways to decorate a cake. Your Wilton Method instructor will lead you every step of the way as you create amazing hand-shaped flowers, beautiful borders and bold accents using these easy-to-shape icings. As you learn each technique – an artful bow, mum, rose, carnation, calla lily, rosebud, daisy and embellished borders – you’ll be closer to your crowning achievement: A final course cake that showcases your skills. The confidence you’ll gain as you decorate with gum paste and fondant will enable you to create cakes that will add excitement to your family celebrations for years to come.

* For best results, Wilton recommends completing the Decorating Basics Course before taking Gum Paste & Fondant.

 

 
  
Sandys Cakes
Cape Coral, Fl.

 

 Advanced Gum Paste Flowers-Course 4

Are your cakes always the talk of the party, but you'd like to be able to do even more? Do people ask you to decorate cakes for their celebrations? Want to learn tips and techniques professional bakers on television know? Advance your skills by enrolling in Course 4 — Advanced Gum Paste Flowers!

Discover one of the most breathtaking ways to decorate a cake—with realistic-looking gum paste flowers. Your Wilton Method Instructor will lead you every step of the way as you create life-like blossoms, flowers and leaves for floral arrangements that top the most beautiful cakes. You'll be amazed at the artistic quality you can achieve as you craft Gerbera daisies, briar roses, Stargazer lilies and more.

As you learn each new technique, you'll be closer to your sensational finale: a beautiful floral spray that showcases your skills. And, you won't need to bring a cake to this course, so you can focus on your flowers.

Topics covered in Advanced Gum Paste Flowers include:

  • Blossoms
  • Gerber Daisies
  • Sweet Peas
  • Ivy Leaves
  • Lily Leaves
  • Briar Rose
  • Stargazer Lily
  • Stephanotis
  • Assemble Blossoms, Leaves and Bouquets
  • Using Flower Spikes

 


  Click here to be taken to Course 4 schedule 

 

 

 

 

 

For great ideas check out the 2012 Yearbook.

You'll also be able to see covers of previous

years, yearbooks.

 

Want to know where to find some other neat techniques that aren't found in Wilton classes, such as variations on flowers based on skills learned in class? Check out Wilton Techniques  section.

 

 

Need Tips on how to mix your own colors, see this icing color chart. It takes the ordinary colors and explains how to make them extordinary. Color chart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Links on this page are courtesy of  Wilton Ind.

 

 

 

 

 

                                   

 

 

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