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.
- 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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