Model Students at SCOLA (Sutton College of Learner Adults).

 Learners at SCOLA are on the Novelty cakes course where they are taught how to make lifesize handbags, shoes, baseball caps as well as undertake a little bit of modelling.  The task set was to make a standing model figure out of 50/50 which is harder than making a "person" sitting down on a cake.  See how they got on...I think they rose to the challenge brilliantly.

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?