So, a funny thing happened on Friday night … I got my passion for cake back! A couple of years ago I took a few Wilton cake decorating courses at Michael’s and was totally gung-ho. I loved baking cakes and also loved decorating them. But somehow, someway, that passion fizzled out. That is, until this weekend.
This past weekend, we celebrated a very special lady – my mother-in-law. She is the type of person who gives and gives and gives, but never expects anything in return. So, it was my pleasure to bake a cake for her surprise 50th birthday party when the one we had ordered fell through at the last minute. Since she’s such an amazing woman, I wanted to do something extra special for her, so I stepped out of my comfort zone and tried something they didn’t teach me in my Wilton cake decorating course – a Rose Swirl Cake! And for a first attempt, I’m really happy with how it turned out. But more importantly, she LOVED it!
I followed this amazing tutorial from Simply Sweets By Honeybee …
And VOILÀ …
I baked 4 vanilla cakes (2 x 8 inch, 2 x 10 inch) to make this 2-tier cake and filled them with blueberry pie filling. This is a very yummy and very moist combo that I would recommend highly!
I then whipped up 2 batches of the Wilton Classic Buttercream Icing recipe that they taught me how to make in the course I took.
First I crumb coated the cake, then used the Wilton 2D closed star tip to decorate the cake.
I wanted the cake to be extra special, so I filled the piping bag with 2 different colours of icing to get the double swirl effect.
The cake was a huge hit with our 40+ guests, with many people going back for seconds. But most of all, it made a very special 50 year old feel extra special.
Happy Birthday, Sonya! Thanks for unknowingly inspiring me to get back to baking 🙂
~ Jackie
PS – I wish I had some better pictures of the final product and my steps along the way, but unfortunately I was pressed for time and only took a couple of snaps with my iPhone. If I get my hands on some more final product pics from the party, I will post them here.
Hey Jackie you do cakes too? Lovely we have something else in common LOL
Another thing in common?! We’re going to be twins soon, LOL! Can’t wait to check out your cakes 🙂
LOL You are funny. I have been debating merging my cakes and the blog I keep them quite separate. Here is my cake page on FB
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Icing-Obsession/150099235010487
Oh wow, you do some great work!
How did you do the two toned flowers? Your cake looks amazing!
Thanks so much, that’s very sweet of you to say! I filled my piping back with 2 different colours of icing and it came out two toned. I’ve done this for cupcakes before as well and they looked great! It’s really simple. I should post a tutorial soon!
You did a very nice job with this. I like the two tone icing. It gives the roses depth.
Thanks for stopping by, Fallon. I’m really happy with how this turned out as well. And doing the two-tone thing was surprisingly easy.