July 2013- Week 2

ORGANIZATION SKILLS

This week wasn’t very productive at all, as I was on vacation. I did look at some cake decorating books and watched some cake decorating tutorials, but I haven’t really taken any notes. I also haven’t continued my Craftsy tutorial videos, which I am planning to finish next week.

COMMUNICATION WITH SUPERVISOR

I didn’t communicate with my supervisor at all.  

INFORMATION

I have decided that I am going to use dummy for four of my cakes, and the bottom tiers of my fifth cake. I am only going to bake one real cake as the top tier of the last cake. I went through Youtube and got some inspiration of different simple and elegant cake designs used in weddings from these videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDkpJDL5fX8 and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GtNUddAjJg. These videos also show how the cake decorators achieve a nice, smooth, and thin sugar paste on top of a cake. As I watched through the video, I also got the idea of telling a story, like a fairytale through one of my cakes. I would make silhouettes out of black fondant about the story and build them up from the bottom of the cake to the top tier of the cake. I don’t think it’s going to be easy, but definitely challenging and worth a try. I also looked through some cake decorating books with chocolate, and found a great technique that I might use. It’s called the chocolate swirl decoration technique. First, melt some compound chocolate on top of a double boiler. Then, put the melted chocolate in a piping bag, and begin to create swirls and squiggles on top of a parchment paper depending on your cake size. Let the chocolate cool down for a few seconds, then quickly take the parchment paper and wrap it around the cake. Cool the chocolate completely and then remove the parchment paper in the end.