Pink Grapefruit Sorbet

 

 

     This class, we made pink grapefruit sorbet. I'm very impressed with the ice cream maker and its ability of keeping so cold for so long. The process of creating sorbet is surprisingly easy. The recipe is also very simple.

 

     The sorbet was a little too sweet for me. However, the texture was exquisite. It was very light and had the same texture as fine, powdered snow. Overall, I found this fun to make and would definitely make this again. 

Ice Cream Sandwiches

 

     In this lab, we created ice cream sandwiches! The cookie was a really rich chocolate cookie and the icecream was vanilla. I don't really know what happened but our icecream turned out really watery and pretty unworkable. I saved some ice cream in a piping bag though, so it was easier to pipe it onto the cookie.

 

 

 

     Overall, the cookie was delicious. I really would've liked trying out the ice cream but it melted before I could taste it! I would definitely try making ice cream again.

 

Fondant Cake

 

 

     This is my complete cake! I created all the decorations on this cake; from the small strips of pink and white on the side, to the bow on the top. Even though this was very stressful, I think that the end result was definitely worth the effort and time! The cake itself is a simple white cake and the 3 layers are held together by plain buttercream.

 



 

     After dirty icing the entire cake, I laid my sheet of fondant overtop. We created marshmallow fondant in the previous class. However, I found this fondant extremely dry and had absolutely no stretch. I couldn't even roll it out without it cracking and splitting. Due to the non-workable nature of my marshmallow fondant, I decided to cover my cake with store bought fondant by Wilton. After covering my cake with the fondant, I applied strips of pink, then thin strips of white fondant. I cut everything out with a pizza cutter to get even lines.

 

 

     The bow topper is my favourite part of the cake. I made a bunch of little ribbons and connected it onto a base in the middle. It was actually pretty easy to make because I was following a tutorial that I found on Pinterest. The link is here: http://rosebakes.com/rose-bakes-how-to-make-a-poofy-bow-fondant-or-gum-paste-part-1-gender-reveal-cake/ I originally planned to place the roses on the side parts of the cake, however, after seeing the bow, I just decided to use them as fillers.

     Overall, I was very satisfied with my final product. The cake I was inspired by was the middle tier of this cake: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/436497388861408864/.

Daisies and Leaves

 

 

     In this lab, we created pretty daisies. I only had time to do one but I think the result was pretty nice. I find that all the fondant flowers take a really long time. The daisy was really simple to make, since it was just 3 cut outs.

 



 

     Beside the flowers, we also created leaves. I didn't find these leaves very realistic and they were way too weak and thin in my opinion.

Roses

 

     The method for making this rose is really not efficient. I found that the rose didn't look very nice. When I threaded the petal through the spaghetti, it was very dry and would just crack when I was trying to work with it. Due to this problem, I couldn't really follow the instructions fully since I was panicking trying to scrap the petals together as they broke off of each other.

     In summary, fondant dries really fast and is not willing to work with you.

Mums

 

     I absolutely hated creating mums. They were extremely time consuming and the petals would keep breaking off of the spaghetti because they were way too dry. I found that the petals were way too thick to look anything near realistic. Also, the end result wasn't pretty at all. I would probably never use these on a cake

Button Flowers

 

     I found that these button flowers were the easiest ones to create out of all the flowers. This is because they're made with a simple cutter that cuts the fondant into the exact shapes you need.

     The button in the middle is really cute and I learned that you need A LOT of cornstarch to get the textures on the petals without them sticking!