Tinker Bell Cake (July 2012)

Yellow vanilla cake filled with vanilla buttercream, iced & decorated with vanilla buttercream. Tinker Bell was created using the pinprick method and sprinkled with pink cake sparkles. Butterflies are fondant dusted with pearl dust.

Flower Cupcakes (April 2012)

Yellow cake mini cupcakes iced with lemon buttercream and chocolate cake mini cupcakes iced with peppermint buttercream, all decorated with buttercream drop flowers and leaves.

Lesson learned:

• Buttercream drop flowers are very easy to make and look so pretty! They're definitely my flower of choice for quick decorating.

My Little Pony Cake (July 2011)

Yellow cake filled with lemon curd, iced & decorated with buttercream. The red cardinal was created using the Frozen Buttercream Transfer (FBCT) method and My Little Pony was done using the Piping Gel Pattern Transfer technique learned in Wilton's Decorating Basics course.

Lesson learned:

• The Piping Gel Pattern Transfer technique doesn't work very well for small cursive writing, it just leaves an unreadable mess behind. However, the Frozen Buttercream Transfer method seems to work pretty well with writing! My handwriting is not the best and writing on cakes is hard, so I'm happy I can "cheat" and just use FBCT whenever I need to.

Wilton Course 1: Decorating Basics (May/June 2011)

 Class 1: Sugar cookies decorated with buttercream

 Class 2: Yellow cake filled with apricot jam and iced & decorated with buttercream

Class 3: Yellow cake cupcakes filled with apricot jam and iced & decorated with buttercream

Class 4: Yellow cake filled with apricot jam, iced with buttercream and decorated with buttercream roses and drop flowers

Lessons learned:

• The Wilton Decorating Basics course did not disappoint and taught me everything I wish I knew when making all my previous cakes and cupcakes!