Ladies and Gentlemen . . . Debbi Stanicki . . . Debbi owns and operates Cakes to You and has been making cakes for almost 40 years. Her part of this blog will begin with cake decorating trends. Here's the first part of that: CAKES have gotten quite a bit more attention today, than in years past. Wedding cakes seemed to be the only cakes that create excitement before. However in the last few years, Ace of Cakes and the Cake Boss have created masterpieces for any occasion. Their influence has brought worldwide attention to the unending possibilities that can transform the average cake.
Their cakes are usually engineered to include heavy supports and mechanisms. These cakes are usually covered in fondant. Fondant is a sugar dough that is rolled out and laid over the cake to achieve an extremely smooth surface. Fondant, modeling chocolate and gumpaste are used to form figurines and various decorations to decorate these masterpieces.
You may have seen these techniques used on the Cake Challenges on the Food Network where contestants compete for $10,000! They are usually given a theme to create their cake designs around. Not only do they have height, width and time restraints, but they also have to move their cake to a display table after it is created. Moving it is always the most tense part of the competition. There have been many catastrophes. However, they are allowed to take the cake back to their work station, fix it and move it again. The judges for these competitions are very particular. Cakes are judged on creativity, technique and neatness of the work station.
What a delicious undertaking!
- Debbi
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