Final semester cakes

Hi once again,

as you may remember we spoke in class about the two tier cakes you will be making as part of your final assessment. I have posted several photos of previous work to give you a few ideas on the different styles students have come up with. Remember to start thinking about what you would like to achieve or learn and bring your ideas along to class.

Some thing to think about:

• Decide on the occassion, is it a birthday, anniversary, wedding.
• Think about the style, is it a traditional classical cake or a novelty cake.
• Decide on the shape of the actual cake, round, oval, square, heart or is it to be built like a castle or dragon.
• Look at books with colour wheels and see what works well together. The library has an abundance of books and magazines on cake deocrating and the internet is also a great place to search for ideas. There is also additional information on chapters 15, 16 and 17 in your module book.
• Ask yourself if the cake displays the skills we are looking for when it is to be assessed. Does it show piping skills, have a top, side and base design.
• Think about the length of time you will have to produce this cake and what tasks you will do on each of the allocated days.