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Sunday, November 7, 2010, 1:10 AM
Wilton Decorating Basics Week 1

Signed up for my first Wilton Cake Decorating Class today with Ailing!!!
I wanted to sign up for several months, but never found the time (either 三分鐘熱度,  or cant make up my mind)
This time I was determined to make it to the november classes and was happy that I waited, since Wilton uses a new class curriculum starting in June 2010.
We had our late breakfast at Village Inn.


After that, we registered for the Wilton Decorating Basics course which is the first out of three on the 1st day of class at Micheal's Store. Paid US$22.50 for the 4 two hour classes every sunday 2-4pm, including a Wilton Course 1 Booklet. $22.50 for all 4 classes plus we'll get a $5 off coupon after completing the course 1. What do you think about this class? Reasonable,cheap or expensive? LOL


We purchased the required tools (ultimate tool caddy and a ready-to-use decorator icing) and brought some cookies, which were needed for the first class at 2pm. Some items are now on my supply shopping list: an aluminum baking pan, meringue powder, clear flavoring, piping gel, icing colors, cake lifter, cake turner, cake leveler, cake storage,  measuring spoons and cups, spatula...and many many more ( this is what I'm pondering abt, need to spend alot on those baking stuff if I decide on the course)

Our little project for the 1st class was to decorate our cookies using the star tip (No. 18). For the first time I used a decorating bag with a coupler and a metal tip to put the icing on my cookies. I filled it with ready-to-use decorator icing and started squeezing. The bag made it easy to control the flow of the icing and with a little practice I was able to garnish the cookies with little stars.

The most important thing I learned in the first class is that you need to use different icing consistencies depending on what you want to do with it: stiff icing for shaping flowers with standing petals, like roses, medium consistency for making stars, borders and other flowers and thin icing for icing the cake and writing.

I came out of the class wanting more and more like a drug addict hahahaha. Can't wait for next week! I'm looking forward to learning more in the second class, where we will decorate our first cake.

After our lesson ends at 4pm, we did some grocery shopping at Lee Lee Oriental Market and dinner at East Bristo then home sweet home.