Week 5

Areas covered:-

1. Marzipan a square cake
2. Textured board and cake
3. Starburst

For homework we prepared a square fruit cake to use for the next 3 lessons.

We first learnt how to make the cake level using a spirit level and adding marzipan to balance.  We also used the marzipan to fill in any holes.

We covered the cake with a layer of marzipan and used smoothers to make the edges square. We then left it to dry.

We then iced a board using a dark coloured sugarpaste we had chosen.  A textured rolling pin (deep basketweave) was then used.  This was put to one side to dry.

We rolled out the same colour sugarpaste to cover just the top of the cake, again this was textured using the rolling pin.

The cake and board were then put aside to continue next week.

We created a starburst for one of the later cakes.  This involved cutting small flowerpaste shapes and threading them onto wires.  We left them white for now. They will be painted later in the course.