Wedding Cake Maker?

Yeah you read correctly. Finally got our outline for final exams. I have already got my idea but I'm not to sure if I should make two tiers out real cake (we have to have a minimum of one real cake). Oh well. I plan make a pound cake and fill the cake with raspberry curd and cover with chocolate buttercream.

The base colour is going to be ivory. On the bottom tier (10") it is going to be covered with white X's and silver dots. The second tier (8") is going to have silver dots and the last tier (6") is going to have white X's. The crown is going to have a bouquet of Calla Lilies and Light Pink Roses with their leaves and buds. Each tier is going to have a spray of you two lilies and a rose.

I have other cakes planned too. One for Mother's Day and My sister's and father's birthday. The birthday cake is going to be Topsy turvy I hope to have pictures up within the next two weeks. Mother's Day cake is going to be a small cake covered with green fondant and daisies.

Soon that is the 411 for now coming with picture soon. Happy baking everyone.

Iron Chef Prep

Well I was invited to join a team for an Iron Chef competition that is going to take place in school. I am a bit excited, I had to submit a final sheet on what I am presenting on the actual date. So on the menu would be:-
1) Dessert soup with a tangy citrus curd and strusel bottom
2) Pop'ems with raspberry sauce
3) Mini coffeecakes

It is going to be a trio displaying different ways to present the secret ingredient. So I have to come up a time sheet planning every half hour of my four hours. It is going to be fun. My mind is just running on what the damn secret ingredient is going to be.

For the time being I have to get some practice in before the real thing. So I have been working on my dessert soup, the first attempt was not really successful. I originally wanted to put a mousse instead of the curd but the mousse was not giving the tang I want so I changed to a curd instead. I will do the coffeecake pastry later in the week.

Oh plus I have pastry shop management to look at I have to try a brownie recipe, to find the yield and my food pictures are going up in school. Oh um.

Lastly I would like to thank the followers for the comments....duly noted.

Over-due

Indeed this has been overdue. I have been baking though. I have done a few projects well. So far I have done:
- Chocolate Bavarian Charlotte
- Mini Black Forest Cakes
- Cakes, Cobbler and even Crisp

The Charlotte was the most interesting. I finally got all the ingredients that I needed to make the damn thing. Most of it was actually made in the middle of the night. I made the cake base at 9 then the Bavarian Cream at 10 and around 12 I put the final thing together, it was kind of exciting actually I want to see what it would look like it the end because I did a design of the cake ring. After tasting I realized that the cake was too dry and I now detest Bavarian Cream (at least the recipe I used).

For the Mini Black Forest Cakes that was another cool one. I decided to use a moist chocolate that I got from my friend's mother. Bad choice though. The cake came out really great tasted good but I should have something more sturdy because I had to build the dessert; the constant moving kind of destroyed they look of the final product. The dessert comprised of a chocolate cake muffin soaked with some rum, cherry pie filling and whipped cream topped with chocolate shavings and cherry bits.
I have photos so you'll will get to see.

Finally the cakes, cobblers and crisps were done in school. The cake we had to do was shitting hard. It was a mousse cake and the mousse refused to set. So my partner as I caught our ass to put all the basic components together. And we did the cake started to slide...so we had to keep the damn thing in a collar all the time.