This
past week I had two parties that I was providing the baked goods for,
the first one, was an Alice in Wonderland themed Bridal Shower. I was
asked to make 24 cupcakes with six different variations and four of
each, half chocolate half vanilla. And 24 mini cupcakes half and half with an argyle look to them. These turned out beautifully! I was
very pleased with myself, I was especially proud of the clocks they
turned out amazing!
Last week I had the privileged to make a birthday cake for one of my best friend's grandmother. I was in contact with my friend's step mom who explained to me exactly what she wanted, and this was the result. The top tier is yellow cake and the bottom tier is chocolate, all covered in white fondant with a red bow on top. We both were very proud how it turned out! Have to give props to Mike, who made all those little pearls!
Last Wednesday, we tried out sugar sculpting again after practicing with it the previous week. Basically you boil 3 parts isomalt sugar and 1 part water, and place in the molds of your choice and you go from there. I am very proud of how mine turned out, would love to display it without attracting ants.
This past Monday I had my final exam cake due for my Advance Wedding Cake class. The cake could have turned out a lot better hadn't my cake slid off my cake stand and mess up the top tier, its a bit off centered and making the piping messed up to. Also I wish the icing was shades darker but I was running out of time and I had already spent enough time mixing it to get to the shade it is at. The flowers I was most proud of, we spent the previous week doing nothing but flowers and I think they turned out great. Over all I was very proud, I received an A and my teacher loved my flowers as well!
Last weekend I had the privilege to provide the desserts at my friend's bridal shower. The maid of honor requested almond petit fours with apricot filling with colors matching the rest of the theme. These turned out beautifully and were very tasteful too!
Last Week in my baking class we made these little chocolate candies and using the tempered technique. While making these we were able to fill them with fudge, peanut butter and caramel. Once I got the hang of it these were really easy to make and very tasty!
This week we prepared one of our two final exam cakes for the spring semester. This cake was entirely our own ideas, except, it needed to be covered in fondant, and have the minimum of 3 techniques that we learned this semester, so I did drapery, pearls and flowers. Very simple but yet elegant.
Last week we practiced with fondant over a square cake, learned how to work with stencils. I liked this technique very simple very beautiful.
