I know that I’ve mentioned before that I very much dislike to cook, but did you know that I have always loved to make sweet treats? When I was about nine-years-old, my sister and I made cookies and pies that were the talk of the town. Around the holidays we started a little business, and with the help of our Mom, we were quite successful!
Then, when I was around twelve, my Mom arranged for my sister and I to take private cake decorating lessons from one of the owners, and chief cake decorator, at a local Baskin-Robbins. Oh boy, did I have a blast! I learned how to make flowers and do simple piping, among so many other techniques.
My kiddos and I now love to watch shows like Cake Boss, Ultimate Cake Off and Ace of Cakes. I marvel at the intricacy and design of each one, and just imagine making beautiful cakes like theirs.
I’ve decorated most of my kiddos’ birthday cakes, and it has killed me when I have been unable to make a special one. They are oohed and aahed over, every single time, but I aspire to be better. I am so bummed that I can’t find a single picture of any of my creations, but I have to tell you that I’ve made a robot, a train, flowers, a frog pond {this was by far my favorite of all}, a giant cupcake {like the one pictured}, and more… All with the help of Wilton.
In fact, Wilton recently sent me a box-full of goodies and I’ve been having so much fun. My late night pregnancy cravings have been satisfied, thanks to some of these goodies, and our sweet Spring gardens were baked in the new UltraGold bakeware.
I borrowed this picture from www.mywoodenspoon.com, since Lori and I received the same package. (Thanks Lori!)
This year marks 35 years of The Wilton Method of Cake Decorating and Wilton has some great things happening. To help mark this special occasion Wilton is sponsoring a fabulous giveaway here at From Dates to Diapers – a box of Wilton goodies, like the one I received, with a retail value of approximately $180.00! {They’ve included a set of UltraGold baking pans, sparkle gels, tubed icings, sprinkles, and more!} All you have to do to enter is leave me a comment here, before 9pm on May 15th, and you’ll be entered.
I’d love to hear about your adventures with creating sweet treats!
Benefited giveaway.
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We always make all of our own sweets at home. From Birthday cakes to Christmas goodies. As my children get older they are also learning to bake with me.
My two oldest sneaked into the kitchen and made me a B-Day cake last year. It was lopsided with lots and lots of crumbs and almost all the words misspelled but it was the best and sweetest b-day cake that I have ever received and I loved it.
I can just imagine what all we could create with this.
Thank you so much for the chance to win.
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My daughter and her best girlfriend made a used a Wilton cake pan to make a Cabbage Patch doll cake–it kept them busy for several hours.
For every holiday or event, all the kids on the block (and there are over 15 of them!)get together and decorate cupcakes…we find them really easy to work with and the kids just have so much fun. This prize pack would so perfect for our neighborhood events!
I would love to win this-I love creating Wilton cakes
My kids and and I love to bake together! We have lots of fun finding new recipes for sweet treats! We just finished chocolate-dipped peanut butter candy! They especially love to decorate anything we bake! Even ketchup on hamburger buns gets put on “creatively”!
I remember yrs. back making some swell baked cut-out cookies for my Halloweeners. Cutout Pumpkin shape cookies with raisins for eyes and nuts for teeth and a creamy rich orange frosting. These were just great tasting and cute to look at too.
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I often get a sweet tooth and since we try to keep sweets out of the house. I will try to make due with things we have on hand. So one time I made these brownies from scratch LOL well I didn’t have the right stuff so yea. It ended up tasting like overly cooked coco wheat puffs. OOPS
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I so need new baking equipment!!!
sign me up for this one sounds like I’d could use it in school when I’d volunteer with my students and the older ones! thanks
My kids would love this. Thank you.
my 20 year old daughter loves to bake for her friends
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My mother makes excellent coconut macaroons. I try every year and I still can’t get them right. Thanks.
Wow, what a great giveaway! Thanks for the chance!
Great giveaway. I’d love to win this.
I love to bake & Wilton makes some great products. this would make the perfect gift.
I have always loved to bake since I was a child, and now I am baking with my child, it is the greatest mommy, daughter time you could ever have. We love to bake cookies and cupcakes, we always bake our own treats. Thanks for the amazing giveaway, I know we could put the Ultra Gold Pans to good use at my house.
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My mom, dad, three brothers and I make EACHOTHER cakes for eachothers birthdays. Never have we bought one! we enjoy spending the time, and creativity every year. Two of my brothers get home from IRAQ august 12 and my one of my brothers birthday i august 21! Hopefully we can use this to bake him a cake!
I would love these. the pans I have are all hand me downs from relatives, it would be great to have something new to bake with my kids!
Honestly, I’m not a very good baker. I can bake with box mixes but that’s about it. I’d love to win this so at least my goodies will look fabulous!
My family and I would have a great time making cupcakes with this.
My Aunt Cathy was the cake decorater in the family. She made me princess cakes, Barbie, and Cabbage Patch, not to mention her contributions for our Browine Troop Mother Daughter Teas. I have kept it pretty simple but these product would have me expanding my cakes in no time.
I am not very artistic, so most of my cakes are of the pound cake variety, but looks like there are some things in this kit that could expand my horizons a tad.
What an awesome giveaway! I could certainly use some new pans for baking. This would inspire me to bake even more!
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This would be great to have since I am trying to learn cake decorating!
I really enjoying baking with my little girl, it’s one of our favorite activities to do together..she’s such a great helper =)
I checked out your sweet spring gardens and it looks like the kids are having so much fun! Would love to win these great wilton products. Thanks.
It seems like baking at least something once a week, I could really use some new pans
This would make my month! Thanks!
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I am a guy and I love to bake. Seriously.
We love to bake and almost always opt for homemade- thanks for the chance to win.
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I love baking with my daughter. We get creative making cupcakes. We also get messy but we have fun. Thanks for the giveaway!
i am noooooooooo Martha Stewart but I have made a couple cute cakes i made one for easter with jelly beans and peeps on it..it came out cute and i made a cake with star bursts set around the top with lines and bows frosted on them so they looked like little square presents..now that was fun
I hate to cook, but I’ll make any dessert as long as it contains chocolate.
This is such a great giveaway and would make the perfect birthday gift for my aunt who is the avid baker in our family!
Sweet!
If I were lucky enough to win this, I’d give it to my daughter. She loves to bake and decorate cakes and could really use this.
I love to bake and just got married so I could really use this!
I would love to win this, I use to decorate all of our cakes, My Mom and I took a class together. Our neighbors loved us because we each had to bring our own cake to decorate, and we had plenty left over. But that was a long long time ago, and now I have a Granddaughter and would love to start teaching her how to do it along with my own daughter. I don’t have any of the things I had before, this would be a great start on my way to picking cake decorating up again and pass down a Family tradition.
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With the use of old fashioned round cake pans (doubt they were Wilson) I managed to create a giant ice cream heart shaped cake as a token of my love for my “now” huband. I borrowed the neighbors chest freezer to work on it and it took me 3 days to complete – we had a huge bbq the weekend of Valentines day and I presented it to him then, many were impressed but my now husband wanted to know what the big deal was making it – needless to say, that was his last cake of appreciation!
I haven’t done much decorating of cakes. Just basic frosting and writing on the cake
Thanks for the giveaway!
This is amazing – I have to admit I keep eyeing classes to learn cake decorating!
Thanks
This looks like so much fun. I know we could create some wonderful treats.
This would be great for our kitchen
This would be great to have.
I love to bake and everyone knows Wilton products are top of the line!
Wilton makes the best products!
many hard but enjoyable hours making family sweet treats for bdays, weddings, and fun:)
i love to bake birthday cakes from scratch
Please enter me for my daughter’s birthday
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