Writing with Chocolate

I did some doodling practicing.

test bake - ver. 1.0

Two layers of 8" chocolate cake with PC's dulce de leche in between.

(In the voice of Gordon Ramsay from The F Word) Crumb coat. Chill.

(In the voice of Gordon Ramsay from The F Word again) Decorate. Done.

Can't tell you why the cake had to have a huge star or what the test bake is for. All I can say now is, the final product will look quite different from this one.

Mini rope border on top. Mini bead border on bottom. Five rosettes on tips of the star. Finally I started getting hang of combing, I think...

I had a slice. I might try different icing recipes next time. I'll use something else for filling, too.

*LOL*

Don't Eat This Cake

You could lick the icing, though. Just don't bite into the cake because underneat the icing is a cake-shaped block of wood.

It was really difficult to pipe roses with softer-by-minute icing :( So was transferring them from the flower nail to the "cake" :(

Well, at least it's showing some progress compared to the very first cake that I decorated, I think :)

Carrot Cake w/Cream Cheese Icing

The second cake decoration at school. It's a 13cm x 15cm carrot cake with cream cheese icing and 3 mini marzipan carrots. The border on top is supposedly Shell all the way, not Rope here and there unintentionally. Note to myself: Consistency!

Now I want to go back in time and make them more cartoon-ish, cute carrots.

No matter what, it's been packaged and delivered to our in-school bakeshop already...

Angel Food Cake w/Italian Butter Cream

Hurrah! We finally got to do cake decorating at school! Here's the very first one: Angel Food Cake with Italian Butter Cream.

There's a "Dots" border on top outer edge. It looks so simple but quite hard not to have such spiky tops as seen here. On top inner edge is a "Bead" border wanna-be. The "Shell" border on the bottom and 8 (4 larger ones and 4 smaller ones, in fact) "Rosettes" are okay compared to "Dots" and "Bead". Each "Shell" could have been a little bit longer, though.

The hole in the middle is supposed to be nice and round... It's not, I know.