Highlights from the Golden Age of Wilton Cake Decorating Part 1
When I was a child my mother’s 1970’s Wilton Cake decorating catalogs were my porn. I’ve since rebuilt my collection via ebay. The cakes were delicious, I’m sure - but the design, I could savor it for days.
June 24th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Dang. Standards are so much lower now. They just seem to have these flat cakes in the shape of things that you decorate with blobs of different color icing using a star tip. Cake decorating for hopeless losers.
The ones in your post - now THOSE are art!!
June 30th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Oh Justin,
this is so marvellous to see!
So much better than the latest years of fondant..
Not as if anything is wrong with fondant,
but you can’t compare apples to strawberrys..
Love, yours
Rikke
July 31st, 2007 at 1:26 pm
What an impressive assortment. The tea set is so challenging and pleasing to the eye I can’t imagine guests would eat it. You should try to recreate some of these cakes with plaster of paris like the fake cakes Amy Sedaris has instructions for in her entertaining book.
August 23rd, 2007 at 2:33 pm
Damn! Those cakes are awesome. I poured over the Boys and Girls Cookbook when I was a kid, the castle cake! Your my new best friend. I like the cake pillow, too! I will read more. I found you fromthe smarts and crafts blog. Krissy