Gingerbread Castle Project

It has been so long since I updated this blog! I regret it as I have so many things to post now, but starting today I am going to try my best to catch up and post all the delicious foods I make. Instead of being in Foods Art, now I am in Foods and Nutrition 12 for the new school year.

*These next few posts that I make would not be in the order I make them.

So as you could tell from this title, in this post I am putting up the pictures for this gingerbread castle that Faith, Wendy and I made for the Hyatt Hotel Gingerbread Contest! This is not a class project as it was last year but our teacher asked us if we wanted to enter this year and of course we said yes!

For our gingerbread project, my group mates wanted to do a castle and then somehow it became a penguin castle...and rainbow also became a theme.

The gingerbread recipe we used was the same one as last year and you can find it here.

The trees are mini ice cream cones that we iced in different colours to make a 'rainbow forest'

All the penguins are made out of fondant

The colourful 'snow' is just sugar with food dye

This is the rainbow bridge with nerds

We sadly did not end up winning but I hope we could win the People's Choice Awards if people vote for us!

Fondant Cake - THE CAKE

So for my cake, I made a cake with a top hat upside down with a bunny in it like a magic show trick!

I was really proud of my cake! Though the brim part of the hat wouldn't dry fast enough >.<
But I found it cute!

Fondant Cake - Fondant/ Decoration

To cover our cakes, we made marshmallow fondant! Marshmallow fondant tasted a lot better than the store bought fondant we were using for our decorations though it is a lot of work (cleaning) to do to make the marshmallow fondant! I forgot to take pictures of the procedure but the below picture is half of my marshmallow fondant.

Before we had to cover our cake with fondant, we had a day to make the decorations for our cakes. I spent the whole time making a bunny! 

I also make flowers to put on the bunny's ears.

 

Fondant Cake - Basic White Cake

To end this unit each of us had to produce a cake this is covered in fondant and that had decorations that are made of fondant. Everything on the cake had to be edible.

For the cake, we made a Basic White Cake that we learnt to make in Foods 10.

Fondant Flowers

For about two weeks, we learned  about fondant and how to make fondant flowers.

Rolled fondants (we used this type) are like sweet dough. They are made with sugar, water and corn syrup like poured fondants. This type of fondants is rolled out into sheets, and then you can color them and use them for decorating cakes. Fondant on a cake creates a smooth, stunning, seamless covering.

We learned to make 5 different flowers and leaves.

On the first day my group learned to make Ivy Leaves (below) and Lily Leaves (which I forgot to take pictures of). 

 The second day we learned to make Roses! This was actually really fun to make and pretty too! Way better than my icing rose.

The third day we made Mums (first two pictures) and Button Flowers (last picture).

 Fourth day we made Daises! I found the daises the easiest one to make though it took a while for them to dry.

 Then we made Carnations which was probably the flower that I didn't really like to make since it looked kind of weird.

Afterwords we made Calla Lilies. This one was also simple to do.

I found the fondant unit to be really fun! Fondant (to my) kind of reminds me of play-dough that you can eat.