Friday, February 5, 2010

Wilton Course 3 - Finale Cake

Today I learned life has to move on.. The past may hurt us so bad.. leave us alone and hanging.. so many questions running around.. doubts dangling in your head.. and there will never be answers.. Filled with utter sadness, anger, vengeance.. :'( At some point of time, you know things will never be the same again.. So what are you to do? Well, just accept things as they are.. What can you do?? Where can you go?? Hence, just accept it and learn from it.. Hopefully.. :)

Well, I've completed my Wilton Course 3.. Wow.. What a challenging course! I dare say that.. Maybe cos I am troubled with other matters too which is why it was so challenging for me.. But the challenge was the one that made it all worthwhile to see the results.. Seriously, it is the most satisfying course out of all 3.. It took me a lot of planning and preparation too..

The flowers took like 1.5 days to dry.. I had to do 2.5 batches of recipe for the cake.. The covering of the cake with fondant was so intimidating.. and I failed cos there was not enough fondant to cover the whole cake.. Haha.. Colouring the fondant was so tiring.. I had to knead the fondant until I developed muscles.. hahaha.. But thinking of ideas on how I envisioned the cake to be was the most stressful.. I wanted a more modern, funky, contemporary looking cake.. But I had class requirements to make it kinda formal with the flowers and borders.. I was stressed for a few days thinking of how I want the cake to be and the colours to choose from.. Thank you to my 3rd sis and Wafi for giving opinions.. 

Finally, the dream came came to be.. haha.. I chose a stacked cake cos the pillars were kinda formal looking and didn't go with the cake that I envisioned to be.. I wanted to make it orange colour cake cos I just love my orange colour and people always ask me what colour did I buy.. I assume it's the most attractive colour of all.. I decided to do laces border around the cake cos i hated the frill borders that I learn in class cos I think it looks typical and boring.. and hated doin it cos it never looks as nice as the ones in the book.. haha.. At first, I wanted to colour the lace pink but my sis said purple would be nicer.. It was challenging to get the deep purple that I wanted.. I had to mix my violet, red and bue colours.. And still it wasn't what I really wanted but I was too tired to mix anymore.. The flowers took 1.5 days to dry and I was worried it won't be enough.. I've always like lilies and I think it was the easiest to make.. Hence, I chose lilies.. I wanted to use Petunia too but my sis told me it would be too much have 2 different flowers.. Ok.. Lesser work for me anyway.. As a result, you got what you see.. trust me.. It's a lot of work but it's really really worth it.. *Pats on tha back.. Alright.. here's the inside

The whole class did a good job.. All the ladies did a wonderful job.. really.. I think it was really stressful for all of us cos while we were decorating our cakes, the class was so quiet and you can see each one of use intently decorating the cakes.. Only stopping to take a short break and give our fingers and wrist a short time off.. haha.. Here's the  lovely ladies.. Germaine in black.. Im in green.. out instructor Chermaine with the blue apron.. Indul in pink t-shirt beside me.. Melody with the rainbow top.. Su in white apron and Veronica in pink in front.. Thank you all of you for making the class enjoyable..  

This is Germaine's sweet looking cake.. Just lovely..
Melody's masterpiece.. Her garden.. It was really beautiful.. Especially her roses.. It looked so real.. with the different tones and the lustre dust that she used with it on the edges.. The cake also had some imprints which she highlight with some lustre dust.. She has like a whole collection of lustre dust.. with all the interesting colours.. One passionate lady for decorating cakes I would say...
This is Indul's cake.. The wonderfully crafted and colourful roses.. I love her borders too.. I don't even dare to make borders.. But she did a very good job..
This is Veronica's cake.. She used chocolate fondant.. Which was really cool and unique.. It smelled really nice when she took the cake out.. I'm sure it taste nice too..
This is Su's cake.. She mentioned the word gothic.. She also said it wasn't really completed yet.. She wanted to put some feathers on it.. I'm sure it will be really prettier after that..
As you know already.. That's my work of art.. Finally.. Alright.. I'm ready to take orders!! Ahaaks.. :P

~I'm missing your laugh..How did it break
When did your eyes..
Begin to look fake
I hope you're as happy as you're pretending to be~

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