Cake Decorating Classes for April, May and June

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Angry Bird Workshop

Come have some fun with your favorite characters out from the game screens.

Workshop will be held on 15th October 2011 (Saturday) from 1.30pm to 5.00pm at ICCA Kota Damansara. Bring back a fully decorated cake of your own design.

Contact ICCA at 03-61408835 to reserve a place if you are interested.

See you there!

A Chinese Wedding

ICCA had organized an Annual Cake Decorating competition at Sunway Giza, Kota Damansara on 1 - 3 October, it included wedding cake decorating, teen category and kids cupcake decorating.

This was the piece I submitted for the competition. It's way below competition standard but it was a great experience. Plus I get to hear personal feedback directly from the international celebrity cake decorators, which was priceless!

Really grateful that ICCA organized this event and that I had a chance to enter the competition. At least my cake got to be displayed in public and from what I saw, pictures of the cake were taken by a lot of cameras :)

The wedding couple figurines. Given more time, I will make them their head gears, and add more details for the costumes.

The top layer of the cake as the bed, with pillows and comforter.

Brush embroidery, which needs to be refined.

Chinese buttons and knots.

Pictures of the competition at Sunway Giza, Kota Damansara, is in my FB (personal) picture profile.

Squire Kitchen 5 day Diploma - String Work

This is beautiful! Trust me. Above is the star insturctor, Rosalind performing, what I thought before I started, the impossible.

Also trust me, it's actually not difficult when you get started, so long as you have the perfect icing. Of course you also need to have a good eye sight and the temperature has to be just nice so that the icing won't turn too dry. We had to request for the air conditioning to be turned off when we were half way through because our "strings" kept breaking.

Oh, having a good mood and patience are definitely plus points. :) If you talk or laugh while pulling the strings, they will break. Can you imagine if you have less patience, try to rush it or lost interest half way? Being in a bad mood will for sure not help. So, stay calm when you do this. Haha...

Here's to show the bridge that was built prior to the string work. (forgot to take picture on just the bridge, was so into getting on with the strings...). The bridge consists of 6 layers of thin icing.

This were the best parts of my strings (can you imagine the worse parts?) where I managed to at least get some what consistent with the distance between the strings.

Huh! Just when I thought I was loosing my eye sights and the hard work is over... we needed to put little dots ON the strings. Okay... I have to admit that it got kind of fun at one point - just stay calm.

Oh before that was piping on the scallops, pearl borders... You will be so pleased with yourself when you get here. Trust me.

But of course that was not the finale. Now... Little patterns like these need to be piped (I gave up, actually my hands had given ways, so I had requested for SOS - Thank god for all the help given the other instructors! Nancy did these for me) and these were supposed to be stuck on to the cake...

Like this!

Don't you love the sight of this too? It's very classy and elegant, isn't it? (Just don't look too close at the bad workmenship).

We were told that the charges for string work is like three dollar (US dollar!) an inch. ONE INCH. Wow... but actually one might still think twice before accepting such order, even at that price.

I got this!!!

Here is my 5 days 5 nights of hard work! :)

Squires Kitchen 5 day Diploma - 1st project completion

This is one really intensive class and one very satisfying one.

We were doing things non stop until we didn't want to go lunch. There were so much happening but I don't really have time to tell now. Need to get some sleep to get myself through another 3 full day of intensive brain and eye work!

Here are some picture of our first completed project, brought home. A cake covered with royal icing, colour flow to cover the board and same technique to make the flowers.

It's so cute and so much like a display cake till my mum didn't know whether to cut it up to eat.