Wilton Method Course 4: Advanced Gum Paste Flowers

January 13th, 2012 by Cathy Franczyk

It’s been an exciting year for Wilton Method™ course development. We’ve been listening to you and talking to students who have enjoyed taking our classes. We’ve heard back that you would love more advanced classes – the right next step to expanding and building upon your wonderful decorating skills.

Advanced Gum Paste Flowers Course Kit So in February of 2012 we will begin teaching our newest course, Course 4: Advanced Gum Paste Flowers. It’s a wonderful four-week, one-day-a-week, class that will help you learn to create life-like gum paste flowers and decorations.

Our Ready-To-Use Gum Paste is a wonderful icing medium that is pliable and has an amazing structure that allows you, the decorator, to create beautiful blooms that can be shaped into bouquets and flower sprays that can grace the top of many celebration cakes. Plus, you can count on the precise high quality of our gum paste flower cutters, ejectors and impression mats to help you achieve exquisite petals and leaves that rival nature.

Each week you will create petals and leaves and then build them into beautiful flowers like the Gerbera Daisy, Star Gazer Lily, Sweet Peas and so many more. This four-week course will give you the confidence to create cakes like the experts. Your friends and family will be amazed at the cakes you will learn to create.

We invite you to come discover our new course and have a great time sharing the excitement of decorating with other students and newfound friends. Our Wilton Method Instructors will help guide you through the learning process with step-by-step instruction and hands-on guidance.

We’re celebrating the launch of Advanced Gum Paste Flowers with a sweepstakes! Enter to win a $50 gift card to register for ANY Wilton Method Class, plus your choice of $100 in Wilton products. Please see our contest page and rules for details.

To learn more about all the Wilton Method courses, please visit our website. Use our handy class locator to find a class in your area within the U.S or Canada.

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Cathy Franczyk Cathy’s career spans over 30 years at Wilton. She currently serves as Director of Product Development-Cake Decorating. Cathy’s expertise in solving process problems has served her well in her collaboration with the Wilton curriculum work group. In her spare time Cathy has participated in personal leadership development and women's studies that span world religions and ancient civilizations. She cooks, bakes, decorates and gardens, reads and is Landscape Director for her Town Home Association.

18 Replies

  1. I visited Canada (Nova Scotia) on three occasions and actually started on your starters courses with the icing run outs etc. I got so involved with it and actually carried on in UK. I take two courses a week, the first is Royal Icing with Eddie Spence MBE. I have been with him for two years now, I also do a course in sugar craft (flowers etc). I have wanted to order certain things from Wilton but dont get any joy in being able to purchase any of the things needed for your teaching classes. I am saddened by this as I want to carry on doing this in UK. Can you help me please to find the necessary website to enable me to make my purchases and tutorials this side of the hemisphere. Thank you and awaiting for reply

    • madeitwithlove says:

      Hi Connie

      I have the same problem too, but there are several Wilton tutors in the UK. There are tutors in Kent, London, Cambridge and I think also in Bath.
      I can’t attend any of them because they’re too far away. If you e.mail Wilton they will give a list of areas. There is an e bay trader in Yorkshire who does sell some Wilton products, I think the name is Gaiety girl. Sorry can’t be more helpful. Hope you find what you’re looking for.

  2. Jaime says:

    I would love to have a class on tiered cakes. That is the biggest thing I have trouble with and would LOVE to have a Wilton course instructor show me!

  3. Eva says:

    Does any one know were to get the 4 inch form cups for the flowers. I can find the small ones everywere but the bigger ones no were.

    • Cathy Franczyk says:

      Hi Eva:

      We have added the larger forming cups to our product line up and most craft stores are displaying them with the new Course 4 Advanced Flowers Kit.

      Cathy

  4. Katie says:

    I just completed the basics course and I am now moving on to take this class, however I am diappointed that the Joann’s I am taking the course at is already out of the kit and book for this class. I cannot find it on amazon on on this website. If a course has 12 slots the store should be required to have 12 kits on hand. I have already paid for the course, but now I am going to be unprepared for class one since I cannot get a kit.

  5. Becky says:

    Where do I find the 4 inch former cup? I don’t find it on the Wilton website. I have asked Michael’s and they know nothing about it. I even checked with specialty cake shops. I started course 4 this coming Thursday, Feb. 2nd and don’t have it for class. My instructor said we use it the first night too!

  6. Mary Jane says:

    I want to enroll on this course but i dont know where the location of the class to be held….thanks

  7. shainaz says:

    Please let me know what I should take to the first class for wilton gum paste course 4

  8. Linda says:

    I would love to take the course 4 Advanced Gum Paste Flowers here in Kansas.

  9. melisse Mitchell says:

    i love you products. how do you smooth out butercream frostings ?

    • Hannah says:

      Melisse,
      In my class, our instructor showed us to let the icing crust slightly. Take a piece of waxed paper and cover the desired area and smooth lightly with your finger. It is amazing what it will do.
      Good luck,
      Hannah in Ansonia, Ohio

  10. brandy says:

    is this a mandatory class now in order to be an instructor

  11. grethel garces says:

    I taking this class and l love…….it is fun

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