Last week we did a lot of prep work and made our lovely bow. It was an incredibly busy class, but we didn’t have a lot to show at the end of the night.
Class #2 was a totally different
story!
We made several flowers with
stems, calyxes (the outermost part of the flower) and leaves. Something else happened too… I didn’t feel
overwhelmed! I truly enjoyed working
with the gum paste and fondant and could have done it for hours more.
Here is what we covered in this
night from the class lesson plan for this course:
- Gum Paste and Fondant 101
- Bow Loops
- Mum Base, Rose Base
- Carnation Base
- Assembling a Bow
- Tinting Gum Paste and Fondant
- Basic Principles of Floral Cake Design
- Calla Lily
- Rosebud and Rose
- Carnation
- Calyxes and Leaves
- Assembling the Calla Lily
- Daisy
- Mum
- Covering a Cake Board with Fondant
- Elements of Fondant Cake Design
- Creating Geometric Designs Using Cut-Outs, Overlays, and Inlays
- Eyelet, Ruffle, and Ball Borders
I’d also like to note that this
is a different teacher than the other classes.
They both have distinct teaching styles and I love them both! Maria, our instructor for this course, does a
high-level overview at the front, then walks to each table critiquing our work
and giving us a close-up demo on how to fix it.
The great thing about this is if we go a little faster, we can make more
flowers or give them more detail.
I LOVE IT!
We started with Calla Lilies.
We had to form the petal and center first to let them dry. Then we assembled the dried pieces and finished
with the calyx. The end result is this:
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I am pretty happy with these,
although I think I’ll go with yellow pearl dust in the center rather than the
yellow sugar.
We moved on to Roses which made me very nervous. My buttercream roses were a disaster. The royal icing ones, while better, weren’t
all that impressive. I figured it would
be another disaster.
And I was very wrong.
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I love this flower! Look at the delicate little Leaves I made.
It was like I finally figured out how to make a gorgeous rose. It only took me 3 classes to do it. I practically wrapped these little babies in
bubble wrap and cuddled it all the way home.
I wanted it to survive so I could take pictures. Now I have to find a cake worthy of its
beauty.
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Okay, that is a little over the
top, but I was really proud.
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The Carnation was next and after watching Maria and then
reading the book, I couldn’t figure out how this was going to work.
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Trust the process, G… trust the
process.
I got done quickly and had time
to do one of the book’s suggestions for enhancing the flower by putting a
little pearl dust. At first I wasn’t
sure if I liked it as much as the others, but I think this really is the
favorite thing I’ve made from all 3 classes.
My friends applauded my effort when I posted them on Facebook as well.
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I can’t believe I’m half-way done
with this class already. Next week we
use the last of our bases from the first class and make mums. We also make Daisies and learn how to cover
things with fondant.
I promise I’ll try to blog about
it in a more, ahem, timely fashion. Until
then… happy decorating!
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