March 22 - April 1st

College has been fairly quiet after all the excitment from the competitions. Apart from making fudge and having a little play-around with spun sugar, we've really only been killing time because we're now off for two weeks (woohoo!)

When we get back to college we've got six weeks to come up with something. Exactly what it is that we need to come up with isn't quite clear, but we have the choice of marzipan, sugar, pastillage, or chocolate. Pastillage is usually used for some sort of construction, like how you build a gingerbread house; cut all of the pieces out, let them dry, and then assemble them. A sugar piece should include a couple types of sugar; pulled, blown, poured, rock sugar, bubble sugar, or anything else you can do with sugar. I use marzipan pretty much just like clay for modelling. And for chocolate you can do moulded chocolate pieces assembled, carved blocks of chocolate, or you can use modelling chocolate, again, sort of like clay.

I've already started my pastillage; a wonky house. I've already put together all of the walls and some of the roof, I just have a last section of roof to pop on, and then I have to cut out some accent pieces, let them dry, and put those on as well.

I also brought home some marzipan to work with over the break. So far I've made a rather large cupcake, but I won't share any more in case it doesn't turn out.

I also want to do a chocolate centerpiece and maybe some more chocolate petits fours, and practice making sugar roses and ribbons.