THE SWEET SPOT

No TRICKS here, just a shout out to all of my awesome cake decorating students at Jo-Ann Fabric & Craft (Bandera Location) who have shared their enthusiasm for decorating and thirst for cake knowledge in 2012!  Thanks to their appetite for cakes, cakes and more cakes, I am very happy to offer these upcoming Fall Wilton Classes: My students never cease to amaze me with their talent! My most recent graduates of Wilton's Flowers & Cake Design Course turned out fabulous cakes such as this: I am a PROUD teacher!  Are you ready to have some fun with frosting?

    For anyone who has ever taken a Wilton Method cake course with me, either in San Antonio or elsewhere, recently or in the past, Wilton wants to see what you can do!  All you have to do is open or log in to your Pinterest account, follow the Wilton Contest set-up directions , and start pinning your cakes!  Wilton wants to see any cakes you've decorated from your Wilton Method Class lesson plan.  Don't forget to include my name as your Wilton Method Instructor and the store or location where you took your class(es). What can you win?  Five winners will each receive their choice of in-stock items from Wilton's online store totaling $100.  That's a pretty sweet TREAT!  I already have a few students who've entered the contest, and would love to have a few more in the running.  After all, I know you're great decorators! Need some inspiration?  Pick up your Wilton Class Lesson Plan from the course you took for some great ide...

Over the past 14 years, since I started teaching Wilton Method cake decorating courses, the curriculum has changed several times to reflect growing trends and to introduce different techniques.  As a result, some techniques were "retired" from the course books, not because they weren't useful or lovely themselves, but because there simply isn't time during the classes to teach everything ! One of my favorite things to teach that didn't make the most recent course updates was how to make a wedding cake, from start to finish.  This was always alot of fun and everyone always said they had no idea what was involved in building a tall wedding cake. Of course "wedding cakes" are no longer for weddings anymore!  Or rather, TIERED CAKES are all the fashion, whether it's your kid's 2nd birthday or best friend's baby shower.  Cake shows on TV build larger than life, multi-tier cakes as the norm, and so the rest of the baking and decorating world (...