Wilton Cake Decorating-Course 1 Week 1

As many of you probably already know, I started a cake decorating class through Wilton held at Michaels.  I have been wanting to take these classes with my mom for years, and we never go around to it before we moved.  My mom took the classes last year and loved it.  After getting pretty lonely here and NEEDING something to do to get me out, I decided these classes would be perfect!

I had my first class on Saturday.  Friday I headed over to Michaels to sign up for the class and get the supplies I needed.  I got an apron, some cake decorating icing, and this awesome cake decorating kit!

It has everything I need to get started and for all of the wilton courses.

The first course is called "Decorating Basics."  For Saturday's class, we were instructed to bring 6 plain cookies for decorating practice.  I was seriously SO excited for the first class, and after attending I am even more excited for the next one!

Saturday we learned some tips on baking a great cake, and how to make our own icing and different consistencies of icing we will be using.  Then we learned how to set up our piping bags, and basic piping techniques, including piping stars!  We then had some time to practice piping our stars on our practice boards

and on our cookies.

It was so awesome.  My regular class will be on Wednesdays, so I can't wait til Wednesday!  This week we have to bring a baked cake, and two batches of icing.  We are going to learn how to frost a cake, and then some more piping techniques.  YAY!