Baking 220 Day 12

I have no pictures from yesterday because my entire underwater showpiece collapsed before I could snap a picture. But I don't mind too much. I thought it was rather ugly.

Today we practiced making this evil-looking flower. There are going to be three of them on our practical showpiece. I am glad we get to start our practical tomorrow! 

evil looking flower =) 

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Baking 220 Day 10

We finished our blown sugar fruits today by airbrushing them. We made a fruit showpiece by gluing them to a base. A couple of my fruits broke =( so I ended up with this. 

I thought it looked sorta bland.
Chef told us there is going to be a huge laminated ribbon bow on our practical, and I am not very good with laminated ribbons. With my extra time today, I practiced making ribbons. I made a small bow and because I didn't want to throw it away!, I attached it to my fruit showpiece. =)

Monday we are making an underwater showpiece with little fishys and a small crab! =D 

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Baking 220 Day 8 & 9

Despite blistered fingers, I am having a blast in this class!

Yesterday we learned the blowing sugar technique. In order to learn spheres we were instructed to make snowmen. We also had to learn laminated sugar ribbon. We were only required to make one snowman, with a laminated ribbon scarf, but I was having so much fun, I made two. =) 

Today we also learned how to make fruits. We will airbrush them tomorrow and build a small showpiece. We also will be making candy canes. =D Yummo! 

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Baking 220 Day 7

Today was the first day of working with sugar for this rotation. For the rest of the rotation, we will be learning different techniques each day. Here is today's showpiece.

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Baking 212 Day 6

Class today consisted of finishing our pastillage pieces, and making fondant roses for a fondant love cake. (more on that tomorrow.)
I am not a fan of pastillage! My piece turned out okay, but I didn't love it. Because we were out of school last Friday, we didn't get to airbrush our pieces. But, I like how the white accents the color of the marzipan fruits.

Pastiallge showpiece with airbrushed marzipan fruits and royal icing lace work.

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