Thursday, 28 June 2012

CALAT Cake Carving Project - Car

The car above was the car that I completed in the lesson as well as supervising the students.

Sad to say that we have reached our last lesson of this term.  Our final project at CALAT was to carve a Madeira (Pound) cake into a small, what I call, bubble car.  This is a  cute nondescript vehicle which the student could colour or decorate in any way this car is suitable for both children and adults alike.  I taught the basic principles of using a template, carving cakes, crumb coating (ie covering the cake in buttercream) and then covering in fondant.  Although we had a very limited time only 2 hours, below are some pictures of how my students got on.  The cakes were were frozen before they were brought into the classroom to make it easier for the students to carve.  I think the students did very well, this again, is the first time that most of the students had ever carved cakes so their efforts were, in my view brilliant.
   


Students crumb coating (covering the cakes with buttercream)

An example of one of the cakes covered in buttercream.


Covering the carved cake in fondant.

Shaping the fondant over the carved cake



Putting windows on the car cake.

Various stages of decorating







Deep in concentration...


Smiling Student

Some of the final cars




The CALAT Sugarcraft Cake Decorating Family...However whose the bloke in the background lol?


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