Seeing dots

At the very last class of Wilton course 1, I brought this cream coloured cake to decorate. We spent about 45 minutes learning how to complete our roses and my first ones were a little lopsided:


The instructor used Wilton brand store-bought icing and it felt a lot stiffer. She coloured it burgundy and let us use it and my rose turned out a lot better:


Then I tried a couple more with my own icing and started to get the hang of things. This was taken right after I finished piping the rose and it is still sitting on the flower nail:


We learned a few more techniques like piping a bow, which I was not fond of, so I just practiced more roses. Just before the end of class, I picked three roses and secured them on top of my cake. When I got home, I started decorating the base of the cake with dots because they were one of the few things I had definitely mastered.


Then I added more dots on the side and around the base of the roses, plus wrote a message on top as well because I had a friend celebrating her birthday the next day!


And here I am with Elisse, who was enjoying the cake at her birthday brunch with a bunch of girlfriends!