Last night the main objective of our cake decorating class was patchwork cutting and garrett frilling.
Sounds painful doesn't it?
Patchwork cutting involves rolling out flower paste within an inch of its life then proceeding to use detailed cutters to press out the shapes. These shapes however do not just simply fall out of the cutter oh no - you have to extremely carefully use a matchstick to carefully prize the flower paste away from the cutter being wary not to break the delicate paste. The tedious thing is you have to keep cutting out the shame shape so you can layer them on top of each other so to form a decoupage effect, this in my opinion was not my favourite cake decoration however effective it looks.
Garrett frilling is then once you have cut a shape out you have to gently take a match stick around the side of the shape ( a flower in my case ) and to roll it around the edges, this again takes a whole lot of saint like patience as the flower paste can repeatedly tear if you press too hard.
I cant help but feel that the types of decoration we are learning are slightly old fashioned, i just hope that in the next few weeks we learn more piping skills and more modern techniques although i cant ever see me taking it up as a new career or as a hobby as its quite expensive , yet the classes are enjoyable and i crave to learn more new skills, I'm just wondering what i could do next...
Sounds painful doesn't it?
Patchwork cutting involves rolling out flower paste within an inch of its life then proceeding to use detailed cutters to press out the shapes. These shapes however do not just simply fall out of the cutter oh no - you have to extremely carefully use a matchstick to carefully prize the flower paste away from the cutter being wary not to break the delicate paste. The tedious thing is you have to keep cutting out the shame shape so you can layer them on top of each other so to form a decoupage effect, this in my opinion was not my favourite cake decoration however effective it looks.
Garrett frilling is then once you have cut a shape out you have to gently take a match stick around the side of the shape ( a flower in my case ) and to roll it around the edges, this again takes a whole lot of saint like patience as the flower paste can repeatedly tear if you press too hard.
I cant help but feel that the types of decoration we are learning are slightly old fashioned, i just hope that in the next few weeks we learn more piping skills and more modern techniques although i cant ever see me taking it up as a new career or as a hobby as its quite expensive , yet the classes are enjoyable and i crave to learn more new skills, I'm just wondering what i could do next...
Mmmmm this is my favourite view of this cake!
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