The first day of wedding cakes we made royal icing and piped all sorts of different designs. We learned different techniques such as cornelli lace, and embroidery. Eventually, we would move one to practice wedding cakes where we could apply royal icing if wished. The next few days we spent learning how to make gum paste flowers and roll out fondant. Both of which I found challenging to do. My fondant would keep ripping and I discovered it was a result of applying it on too slow.
The cake to the left was our first practice cake. It is a Styrofoam cake covered in plain white fondant. The cake is adorned with Calla Lillies and various hued billy balls (although, they are really fantasy balls). The border is a lace imprint. I thought this cake was a bit too plain. I could have worked on adding some more filler flowers to the cake as well as leaves. Also, Chef Webb said the placement of the lillies could be better. They should be facing one direction.
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