Krista’s adventure through culinary school

Cakes have always been one of my favorite things to bake.  I love the creativity that you can impose on a simple cake to make it whimsical.  Below are the cakes that I worked on last week.  Today we made a two tier wedding cake for our practical/test.  It was so much fun to make! We had a few requirements such as the topper that was made out of pastillage and royal icing, the modeled roses(made from marzipan), and piped borders.  Though there are things I would do differently, I am happy with the final product.

We worked with marzipan for the first time on this cake.  Which is very easy to use…it is almost like working with play dough.

The next two cakes are from working with chocolate flood-work.  Not my favorite application for cake decor, but at least I got the experience of working with it. The football cake I made especially for my nephew who just started his football season.  Good luck D-man!

And thats all the pictures for now.  This week we are starting advanced cake decor using such things as rolled fondant.  This should be a lot of fun…I going to make my first carved cake on Wednesday.