A friend asked me to make a Topy Turvey cake for a baby shower she is hosting this weekend so I said "Sure, I can do that." Never done it before so what is a girl to do? GOOGLE IT! And so I did and I found a great video showing how to build one. Even though this is NOT the cake I am doing (it's a bit too topsy-turvey for my needs) it is incredible to watch Janell Smith from Sugar Crazed.

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Swan's Down (cake flour) has 5 free e-booklets to download...

Celebrate the Seasons
Simple Swan's Down
Swan's Down "Scratch Baking" Made Simple
Swan's Down 100th Anniversary Cookbook
The Presto Recipe Collection

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Wilton Reveals the 2010 Yearbook cover...

http://www.wilton.com/publications/yearbook_cover.cfm

May 2nd Demo Mini Treats 1-3PM

I am getting ready for this demo by making mini brownies & cupcakes in my Recipe Right Mini Muffin Pan and mini bundt cakes in my Mini Fluted Mold Pan and some small cakes in my Mini Loaf Pan.

I used Duncan Hines Family Style Dark Chocolate Fudge Brownie Mix, Butter Recipe Golden and Devil's Food cake mixes. I also purchased plain mini sugar cookies form the local bakery.

I am making Class Butter Cream Icing and plan to make roses for the mini brownies, Funky Fondant Flowers for the mini cupcakes, use Course 2 Royal Icing Violets and Apple Blossoms for the mini sugar cookies and use the Wilton Ganache for the mini bundt cakes. I will cover the mini loaf cakes with fondant and do various things on them.

Should be fun!

Hope to see lots of people and have plenty of sign ups for May Courses!

April Technique of the Month: Grass

Quick and easy way to grass or fur.

Source: 1988 Yearbook

Tools:

• Tip: 233
• Disposable Decorating Bags
• Standard Coupler

Ingredients:

• Buttercream icing medium consistency
• Kelly Green Icing Color

instructions

Step 1

Fit the decorating bag with Multi-Opening Decorating Tip 233 and fill 1/2 full with medium consistency icing. Hold the decorating bag 90° straight up; the tip should be 1/8 in. above surface as shown.

Step 2

Squeeze bag to form grass. Pull up and away when icing strand is long enough (about 1/2 inch) stop pressure and pull tip away. Grass will be neatly formed only if you stop squeezing before you pull tip away.

For a more natural look sometimes pull tip slightly to the right or left, istead of straight up. Remember to keep clusters close together so cake does not show through.

Copyright © 2003-2009 Wilton Industries. All rights reserved

http://www.wilton.com/technique/Grass

Spring is in the Air!

It's Growing Season Cookies

It?s Growing Season and a batch of cookies has popped up in your garden. Each bloom is attached to a lollipop stick so it can stand tall when inserted in your Long Loaf cake.

Source: 2001 Yearbook
Pattern: Fence, Leaf

Tools:

• Long Loaf Pan
• Tip: 2B
• Tip: 47
• Tip: 3
• Tip: 233
• 2001 Pattern Book (Fencepost and Leaf)
• Cake Board
• Fanci-Foil Wrap
• 8 in. Lollipop Sticks
• Hoppy Easter Colored Metal Cutter Set
• Green floral tape

Ingredients:

• Leaf Green Icing Color
• Lemon Yellow Icing Color
• Pink Icing Color
• Violet Icing Color
• Color Flow Mix
• Roll-Out Cookie Dough
• Buttercream icing
• Color Flow Icing
• chocolate cookie crumbs

Makes: Cake serves 18.

instructions

Cut 2 butterfly, 6 egg and 6 tulip cookies (cut stem off tulips before baking). Cut 20 fencepost and 6 leaf cookies using patterns. (Make extras of all to allow for breakage.) Bake and cool cookies.

Use tip 3 and full-strength Color Flow to outline cookies; flow in with thinned color flow.

When dry use full-strength color flow and tip 3 to add swirls to egg, leaf and butterfly cookies.

Wrap lollipop sticks with floral tape and attach to tulips and butterflies with full-strength Color Flow. Attach leaves to tulip sticks with Color Flow.

Bake 4 in. high cake in Long Loaf Pan. Ice with buttercream and place on foil-covered board.

Pipe tip 2B horizontal bands on cake sides; add tip 47 (smooth side up) top and bottom bands.

Cover cake top with cookie crumbs. Insert tulip and butterfly cookies. Attach fence pieces to cake sides.

Pipe tip 233 pull-out grass. Attach egg cookies with icing.

http://www.wilton.com/idea/Its-Growing-Season