aka the Croquembouche.

We started advanced cakes on Monday, first making the croquembouche. We finished it yesterday. It’s one of two items that’s made in pairs (the other being the gingerbread house) and we scored a 94 on it, so I’m happy. It went a little wibbly at the top and the base isn’t level but I got to play about with extension icing (the loopy bits on the base) and it was fun to make. Ours won the height award for being the tallest!

I’m really excited about this unit now, there’s so much we’re going to be making and it’s all going to be great! Today and tomorrow we’ll be doing an ‘American’ style cake covered in buttercream with buttercream flowers, and then we move onto covering them in marzipan and poured fondant, modelling chocolate (we make a devils food cake for that!) we’ll be painting designs with cocoa butter on that one. We’ll spend a week on gumpaste flowers and pastillage. We’ll do a sculpted cake and then we finish off with a three tiered wedding cake where we’ll go through costings, consultations and tastings.

We had a good weekend, DmentD and I swapped cards for Valentines and left it at that. He was so touched by the card I made him that we went and got a frame for it.. Which made me all happy that he was so moved by it.. lots of being moved and happiness (yes, we’re sickening, deal with it! *grins*)

Then we bought some frames for several pictures we had needing it, and we hung them up.

We went on a trek to buy lumber and on Sunday DmentD started building the doors for the kitchen cabinets, they need to be assembled and stained, but they’re looking good.