Wilton Icing Fun Workshop

As I mentioned in another post, one of my co-worker's daughters is in Girl Scouts.  In doing the research for the Valentine Day cupcakes we did at work, I came across Wilton's Icing Fun Workshop and their Girl Scout Sampler Kit.  The workshop is designed for Scout or youth groups (or in our case....companies, lol).  The Kit comes with a piping bag, three tips, coupler, instructions and a Patch.  Wilton provides everything you need to know to run the workshop via free downloads (teacher instructions, Certificate, practice page for piping). 

Well, my co-worker and I were talking about it and she thought her daughter's troop would love to do it.  She is their leader, so we set about setting up a day/time to do the workshop with them.  I provided each of the girls with four cupcakes, a cupcake container, icing for the bags, etc.....  The Workshop has the girls color the icing and fill their own bags...given the time constraints of the Troop Meeting I demonstrated how to color the icing and fill the bags and handed them filled bags ready to use. 

I baked the cupcakes and prepared everything ahead of time.  It probably took two to three days of preparation just for the cupcakes and icing/bags.  Ahead of time I put together a folder for each girl to bring home that had the instructions, Certificate, practice sheet and cake/icing recipes I used.  The girls helped me set up the tables at the meeting (took about 15-20min).

After demonstrating how to color the icing and fill the bags, I showed the girls how to pipe the different things they were going to learn, and explained the different tips they would be using.  Here are there practice sheets!  They did pretty good - though some had trouble with the leaf tip.

After sufficient practice time, they set about to decorate their cupcakes with their own imagination!  Some of them were very creative!!!  One of the girls made a Minion (from Despicable Me) and another figured out how to make flower petals and a butterfly using the leaf tip!!!!

It was a lot of fun and everyone enjoyed themselves greatly - including me!!  It was so great in fact, that my co-worker presented it to her monthly Service Unit meeting and the workshop has since been posted on a State-wide message board for Girl Scouts!!  I already have three workshops scheduled and can't wait to schedule some more!

Here is the flyer that was posted on the website:

I did learn a few things while doing my first one, and will take what I learned to improve the workshop for future troops.

~Chelle