Birthday Baking with Wilton Ultragold

February 1, 2010 | 20 Comments | 2,001 views

I would say I’m like most women creeping towards 30, silently hoping and praying the day never comes. While I swore I’d never be one of those women, the ones that celebrated 29 until so many years passed that their own children don’t even truly know their true age. But I am. Yesterday, I turned 27! Gah! I know, anyone over the age of say…30, probably wants to smack some sense into me and give me the “you’re so young, you have no idea what old is” speech. Don’t, I’ve heard it and turning 27 just stinks to me. Having my husband tease me about being “old” all day long didn’t help either.

What did help was baking! I know, that sounds like an old lady thing, but it’s true. Nothing makes me feel more warm and fuzzy than cracking eggs and whipping batter. All of the icing and decorating is fun too!

What made today more special was last month I received a beautiful package from Wilton that included the new ULTRAGOLD bakeware and lots of decorating goodies. I was like a kid on Christmas morning, poking through the box, dreaming up future baking projects.

Then Sunday came and I couldn’t wait to put them to good use. As nice as it would have been to have my husband bake me a birthday cake, it was much nicer to do it myself and actually have it edible. Sorry honey if you’re reading this, please stick to boiling water!

Gearing up for my birthday cake project, I prepped the shiny gold Aluminum 8 inch square baking pans with grease and dusted them with flour. Not that I didn’t trust the bakeware to do the job of keeping my cakes from sticking, it’s just a habit of mine and is actually quite fun.

In the oven my pans went, filled with confetti colored cake batter. My favorite feature by far, the large handles sticking right out front. I have quite the habit of losing my oven mitts, yes, all dozen or so of them and typically end up grabbing a folded clean sock to pull hot pans out. The handles made this so much easier and less likely to burn myself or drop the finished cakes in the process.

As you can see, the cakes came out just beautifully. No burning on the bottom, evenly baked throughout, perfection!

Of course, the best part was decorating. A thick coat of some rainbow chip icing, topped off with these cute little Sweet Dots Royal Icing Decorations from Wilton made this part easy on me. As much as I love decorating, it’s definitely not a talent of mine. The prepackaged decorations made it easy to give my cake a little flair without any work on my part.

This was definitely the highlight of my birthday considering what a disaster our dinner out turned out to be. I’ll share more on that later, including my little tiff with IHOP. And special thanks to my my husband for cleaning up my baking mess!

Fortunately for you and me, this isn’t the end of my birthday chatter. Our youngest daughter, Emma, is turning 1 this month and we have a lot of topics coming up surrounding birthday parties, baking and even a special giveaway from Wilton that will include the cake pans and decorations plus a TON of more goodies!

And a very big THANK YOU for all the birthday wishes on twitter and Facebook yesterday. I promise I was ignoring everyone, just busy baking, eating and reading.

The product(s) featured in this review were provided free of cost to me by Wilton. Opinions expressed are my own and are NOT influenced by monetary compensation.