Wilton Cake Decorating Yearbooks

I do not bake much. Actually, I hardly bake at all. But I love cakes, cookies, brownies, whatever I can get my hands on. As a kid, my family would make bakery items from box mixes or get something from the many great bakeries in our area. Cake was always served at birthdays, and they were delicious, but I always dreamed about getting a fancy decorated cake. This was before the modern fancy cake movement, where the height of coolness was a cake baked in a Star Wars or other pop culture themed cake pan and then covered in icing to complete the effect. Despite wanting on those, it never happened. That is probably why as an adult, I am so attracted to images of them.Now, I could have gone for collecting cake pans. I certainly see them all the time while thrifting, but I know that I won’t ever bake one of them and if I tried, it would be very disappointing and the pans would just fill up my cabinets. Luckily I found a compromise. I started collecting Wilton Cake Decorating Yearbooks.…