GIVEAWAY: Wilton Cake Decorating Yearbook!

2010 Wilton Cake & Cupcake Yearbook Giveaway!

What kid wouldn't want a Transformers 2 Optimus Prime cake for his birthday? Hannah Montana, Spongebob, Disney Princess and Spiderman. They're all in the Wilton Yearbook with a lot more of their movie star friends!

How To Enter the Giveaway?
Wilton Enterprises sent me a 2010 Yearbook to give away, and I want to give it to someone that absolutely loves decorating cakes! Leave a comment on this post only, and tell me what your worst cake wreck was, and you'll be entered in the giveaway! Please check out my exclusive review on the brand new shiny 2010 Wilton Yearbook, and see if you don't agree it's one of the best yearbooks Wilton has ever done!

No duplicate entries or comments. Deadline is next Wednesday, July 29th, 2009, at midnight EST. I'll pick the winning comment using the Random Generator and post the results here. USA & CANADA entries only.

Now, you can have your Transformers 2 Optimus Prime cake, and eat it too!

Comments

[Hildra Tague]

I worked much of the afternoon on it. Then I carefully carried it to the car. I had to set it on top of the car while I unlocked the car. I got in, drove off, but heard a sliding sound! While my car went west, the cake was sliding down the road going east. Not a good thing, yuk. (It was quite a while before I cooked another cake.)

[Alison Snow]

Wow, an Optimus Prime cake - I'd be the best mom ever!

I don't make cakes - for this reason - I once baked a batch of chocolate chip cookies and when I looked in the oven, my cookie sheet was just a river of butter with chocolate chips floating in it - I forgot to put in the flour!!

Thanks for the great giveaway!

Alison

[Vanessa Pyatt]

I can't recall any of my cakes going terribly wrong. They may not always have turned out professional quality, but they've been decent enough and completely edible. Of course, I'm a complete novice, so I'm sure I've got many cakes ahead just waiting to be wrecked!

[Kristin]

I've never attempted to make a cake like this. It seems like such a daunting task.

[Lisa]

Oh boy.. Cake Balls and I have no love for each other. I've made them twice. the first time... the cake turned into a giant ball of guk when i ran it through the food processer. the second time they kept.. melting more or less. dropping of the sticks. you name it.

I was spying this book in the store the other day, there is some REALLY cool stuff in it!

[Tracy]

I made a two layer wedding cake for friends of my in-laws and the roses on the front kept falling off. I kept trying to glue them on with more icing. Good thing we cut the cake pretty fast so I didn't have to stand near the cake all night trying to do touch ups discretely.

[Lia]

I made a clown cake - something I had never done before. After spending hours and hours decorating, I picked up the cake to move it - and the top layers promptly slid to the floor. Boooooooooo!

[becca o.]

A friend of mine and I were making cakes for our then boyfriends (now husbands) using these TINY heart-shaped pans (like 5 inchss, seriously. We decided to double stack them, which was probably the worst idea ever, as they were lopsided and messy and sloppy. However--they were redeemed by this simple fact: My significant and I were studying Hebrew at the time, and so I wrote "Love" on the cake IN HEBREW! Even though it was a disaster, he loved it!

[Shelly P]

I was making a army hummer for my son and it kept falling apart and I end up just buying some army vehicle and putting on a cake.OH, how I would dearly love to win the Wilton Cake decorating book.

[Deb Greene]

Over the years I always made my three kids special cakes. The worst was one I had to cut lots of shapes and put it together. After I had it all cut and decorated in separated pieces I couldn't figure out how to put it together. I didn't have a lot of counter space so I moved the pieces from place to place to decorate. I was so frustrated, then decided to make a game out of it. I took too large cookie sheets and placed the pieces on it and had the kids decide what to make. It was fun watching them discuss and decide what it should be. It was not was I was making, but they had a blast. Now with grandsons I love to make specialty cakes for them. The book looks and sounds great!!

[Pam]

In an effort to be sure that the 3 tiers of the carrot cake I was making came out of the pans cleanly after baking, I placed wax paper rounds inside the pans after greasing & flouring. It would have been REALLY great if I had remembered to remove the wax paper from the cake layers before frosting..I noticed the problem as I was attempting to slice the cake..had to instruct my guests to separate the layers & remove the wax paper before eating..it was a 3 Stooges moment, but the cake tasted great!

[Jeannette]

my worst wreck was trying to make a Nintendo controller cake (the old school grey controller). first, i had to make a boxed cake because i botched my homemade cake. second, i didn't know how to make grey tinted frosting so it turned out slightly blueish in hue. third, i found out how much i suck at piping. the lines were all squiggly and ugly. the cake was good but it was not visually appealing. :(

[Jenny]

I remember my son's first birthday party and it was a jungle animal theme I was going for. I made different size layers and was fudging with them and it just looked goofy - but I said what the hell and present it - everyone went nuts - they thought it looked just like a jungle safari hat - (I had no intention of it looking like that - it was just a 10 inch and a 6 inch - that I didn't plan very carefully)!

[Cristina]

My worst cake story happened 2 years ago...I was having my daughter's birthday party and I had made a lovely chocolate cake, with chocolate frosting. Before the party started, I needed space in my work top, and I proceeded to put the cake in the oven, turned off oven, just to get the cake out of the way.
The party started, and as usual, mammies are always busy running from one place to another, getting the party food ready, etc. I was supposed to cook some sausages for the kids, so I turned on the over to preheat it. After a few minutes I could get a strange smell, then I realised the cake was in the oven !!!!!!!! the candles had melted, and so had the frosting !!!! In the end it wasn't that bad, we were able to eat it anyway. The following year, we had a cupcake b-day cake instead :o).

[Sarah Walz]

I tried making the cake pops and that was a total disaster! The consistency of the cake and the frosting was like raw cookie dough- totally and completely wrong. I guess I added too much frosting because it was a huge mess. My husband really wanted me to make them for him so I continued with the process. Because the texture was so sticky, it took even longer because I had to keep putting the cake balls into the freezer. I was so upset about it that I didn't eat a single one!

[LuAnn]

Don't know if it is too late, but just saw about this from TheDailyBlonde on Twitter. I wanted to make my daughter's 6th birthday cake a doll cake, so I figured if I got a bundt pan, that would be good, then the doll could be put in a plastic bag up to her waist and plopped in the center of the cake. Well, the cake was only 1/2 as tall as it should have been, and the hole in the middle was wa-a-a-y to big, so dolly would've been showing way to much for a 6 year old. (Maybe because I tried making a few "substitutions" to enable DH's diabetic Mamaw to have a little piece of cake.)

Well, I went out and got some pink sparkly sprinkles and some pre-made "Cars" (Lightning McQueen and Mater) sugar decorations (yeah, I know it's a strange combination) and let her help decorate.

Everyone had a piece of cake and no one needed the Heimlich maneuver, so I guess it turned out not so bad after all.

[Tiffany]

I alway seem to run out of frosting. Some recipes don't seem to make enough to frost an entire cake. And then I have the dilema, do you frost the sides & inside or the top & inside and leave sides naked!

[Stephanie B]

I can't say that I have had a major wreck with a cake. Some have been too dry or not cooked enough, but I have been fairly fortunate. My sister is another story...she once made a raspberry cake for Christmas...when it came out of the oven, it just collapsed and became a big pile of mush. It was delicious in a bowl with the icing though.

[leana]

Halloween cake for my daughter, the pumpkin did not have enough support and the pumpkin rolled off the back. Lucky no damage, touch up pumpkin and grave yard, cake was good to go.

[shannon F.]

This book looks too cute Donna! How was it??
Im getting better at frosting...err slowly lol. Just starting to learn to experiment with tips etc. Would love to learn how to use fondant!!
Ive started to make cakes and cupcakes for my family and aarons office parties and they go pretty well. I love doing it.
I always make crazy theme cakes for the boys on their birthdays. I made an elaborate pirate/spongebob cake for Jason's 30th (what 30yr old wouldnt want spongebob? lol) and it went fairly well so the next year I decided to make a cow spot cake. A mistake actually worked in my favor. I had frosted the cake white and began slapping on the black frosting "cow spots". They were green. No matter what I did, I couldnt get the black color right. Black frosting tube was green. Coloring gel was too weak and made them gray.
I almost gave up...but then decided to melt chocolate chips and make free form spots on wax paper. Chilled them and plopped those on the cake. It looked pretty good and tasted yummy!!

[Deborah R]

Quite a few years ago, I made a birthday cake for my son...which fell after I took it out of the oven. The big joke was that it was going to be a frisbee theme cake and look, it turned out as flat (and hard) as a frisbee. ~sigh~

[suri]

i made a royal icing tiara which broke then i made it again and had it perfect much in advance the night before the birthday i was putting the cake together and crash ... my tiara broke ... ohwell!!!

[Maria]

I would love to have this book because...Baking and decorating is my new hobby I absolutly love it. I recently started working with fondant and I made a cake for my daughter, The fondant had little lumps of sugar and it just did not look good we just thru the wole thing away.

[philjames]

An excellent book for any birthday or speical occasion full of ideas and tips.

[Aaron Hummel]

I was trying to be creative in making cakes and playing with Jello. (18 years old) i made my cake and when it had coold i cut out the center piece cause I had this great Idea to put jello in the center for a pool and gummy bears around the outside to look like swimmers. When i was going to put the jello in I wanted it to be smooth in the cake and not lumpy, so i pour the LIQUID Jello into the cake where it then began to seep out the sides of the cake and all over the counter creating a massive mess. I started over and went with the lumpy Jello and cooled it first.