Gradients and New Knowledge

I've just recovered from all the body aches I got from my class with Sharon Wee... Don't get me wrong, she's a wonderful teacher but I just didn't know a double barrel cake would require such great amount of physical strength... ;D 


I had the privilege to attend a course by the talented Sharon Wee from Australia who came all the way here to Singapore... Wish I could attend all the courses but my schedule and financial means only allowed me to attend one class... I was attracted to it because of the Peony flowers that we get to learn and also the skills to cover very tall cakes... There are so many things you can learn technically from Sharon. The most stress that I got from making the cake was contemplating on the design of the cake.. The next stress was covering the 2 tiers of cake.. Hahaha.. The last stress was making the flowers...


The design was killing me since the past few days even before class.. I was going through pictures of beautiful cakes in the internet like an addicted person every night before I sleep... Im not kidding you. I think even my husband was lazy to entertain me. Hahaha.. Poor him.. I just know I wanted to do something simple yet eye-catching.. Colourful yet subtle.. Fascinating yet clean.. Modern yet vintage-y.. See what I mean.. I'm contradicting myself at every thoughts and imagination I have.. In the end.. I decided on a colour scheme which was not so common but had the vintage feel to it.. But actually I got the inpired by a lady who wore the colours that I chose... It was just one random morning where I was walking behind a random lady who was wearing a 3/4 teal coloured skirt with a sleeveless peach-salmon coloured top.. I just knew there was no turning back.. As for the designs, I wanted to do something modern and clean.. I kept thinking over and over again whether my white peonies will go with the colours I chose.. I was ultra stress!! But I just did it and guess what.. It's beautiful and unique! 


While watching Sharon demo how she covered the double barrel cake, I actually held my breath until she finished covering the sides in one swift movement.. I was thinking to myself, can I do that?? Suddenly, my palms became sweaty.. It is usually not.. Hahaha.. I was really nervous.. Hence, I covered the smaller cake to warm myself up for the challenging task ahead... When I had to finally cover my tall cake, I took a deep breathe and stood straight.. I was really scared something bad would happened.. But I was really paranoid as the cake is ganach-ed all around.. Any mistakes would mean I would have wasted the fondant which was a lot of hardwork to roll.. Well, I still manage to cover it with no problem.. 

It's been a long time since I make wired flowers.. Honestly, I'm still not good at curling the petals and the peonies needs to be really curved to be nice.. I was initiall having problems wiring the petals. I had to the each petal over and over again as none of the petal I did was good enough.. I hate being so critical of my own work and such a perfectionist at times. I just like to stress myself... Finally after some time, I just had to not bother about being perfect.. I realised I was wasting time and I was really lagging behind everyone.. 

I was really happy with the end result.. Im very very proud of myself.. Although I was really tired and my back was aching like crazy from kneading and rolling strips of fondant, it was all worth it.. I'm not really sure I can repeat all this task or this cake after this class.. Actually, I'm more worried about whether the chocolate ganache will set if I do not have the luxury of having aircon at home unlike in class.. I really need to experiment.. I also learn from Sharon that beautiful looking cakes and flowers can be achieved with the simplest tool that you have at home.. You don't have to buy special cutter from different flowers.. All you have to have is imagination and creativity.. And being happy with what you do.. "Do what you like, don't have to follow others".. That's what she always says... 

A friend I made in class who has the same taste as me.. How cool is that? I love her falling petals idea..

I'm definitely going to work towards making this kind of modern, clean cakes because it's very me.. It's what I love and it makes me really happy.. 


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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~