It's taken me a while to get round to writing this blog post, I've had the busiest few weeks recently, having to reapply and re-interview for my job (it's a long and very boring story- I got it though which is good news), but better late than never!
So our 3rd foodstyling session was with Katy, and it was cake night. Katy gave a few demonstrations of different icing techniques, and showed us how to make the filling look abundant, whilst still creating a nice clean picture. She also showed us ways to cut it, to make a nice clean slice, and some techniques for dribbling icing down the sides of the cake. She said that she particularly likes doing cakes, because you get a bit more freedom and can be more creative with them, which I can understand.
We were then put into groups, and got given a challenge on a piece of paper. My group had to make a 'homely, achievable, women's institute' style cake. It was a lot of fun, and nice to try out some of the techniques she showed us. Here are some photos from the night, enjoy!
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| Working on our filling- doesn't it look delicious |
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| My groups 'Women's-institute' style Victoria sponge |
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| Pretty tasty looking hey?! |
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| Mastering the controllable-ooze with the filling... |
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We made a stencil out of strips of baking paper to create this criss-crossed top
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| One of the other groups 'Afternoon tea' inspired cake- isn't it lovely? |
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| Lovely piping on the Donna Hay inspired cake |
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| I think this was my favourite - the Marks and Spencers cake- I love how clean it is, they piped the icing on beautifully. |
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| All of them together- comparing cakes. (NB this is showing the bad side of our cake- the other side was it's front!) |
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