Out with the old, in with the new
For the past five school sessions my class has been working on making wedding cakes. More decorative then edible (literally so, as we make them to put on display, in addition to learning the business of wedding cakes), this project has come to completion. It was quite the event.
First we rolled out the wedding cakes of our predecessors from six months previous, in a ceremony that can only be described as the cake toss.
As an after thought, that particular cake was quite beautiful with gum paste flowers crowning it; it was also quite durable, as it remained mostly intact after its disposal.
But at the end of the day we got work done too, each of the us thirteen students completed a wedding cake. Here is mine, as well as several others.
It was a good project. We all worked hard and discovered the rigors of one of the bigger parts of the bakery business. Honestly I think we each overawed each other with our decorative ideas, especially so when they were in tangible form on this last day. At least for me, it was humbling and empowering. We even got to bond a little at the end.
Collectibles from the labor of thirteen cakes, all together!
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Now if that isn't a great Three Stooges moment waiting to happen... :)
So these cakes...they dont get eaten? Do they sit on display somewhere for 6 months?
Yeah, they're showpieces. We put them on display for what looks like four months, then we change them out for the next set of wedding cakes.
I think a catapult would add a dramatic flair to the destruction of those cakes!
Your cake is lovely and quite sophisticated.
Food Network Challenge next?
Oh, just in case you were wondering, mine has chocolate roses and drapes on it, its not one of the other, more pastel cakes.
A catapult would be an interesting touch...we were talking about bowling!
I'm not a very good cake decorator. I can do it, but that creative, artistic flair might be not so natural to me. Cake decoration also seems kind of tedious to me, to do all those flowers and such. But that doesn't mean I'm particularly bad at it. I can make the flowers and the drapes (as you can see), but it might make me go crazy.
So I probably wouldn't do so well at foodnetwork challenge, haha.
The chocolate roses cake is actually my flavorite. If you're not good at cake decorating I probably should never even try! LOL Al
I'm speaking in comparison to my classmates. From the beginning of our join journey down the road of pastry, they've been dreaming about their wedding cakes, and planning how they'd design them.
I didn't really pay it much attention. I was mostly concerned with the artisan bread section, and the plated dessert sections. What I knew, comparing with the other side of the baking and pastry industry. But wedding cakes? Making things pretty? I make things clean, but I don't care much for extravagant decorations, which came through in my cake I'm sure.
So I'm not so good at cake decorating because it doesn't come so naturally to me, I didn't even know how to make a cake, until I started attending my school.
Thanks for the fun... Just so you know when I looked at your cake it took my breath away. I love the simplicity and clean lines of it.
What a fun post! Thanks for pics...your cake is lovely!