Mille Feuille

The flattened puff pastry slices

   To make this, I cut a sheet of puff pastry into three, pricked all over before putting it into the oven. As soon as it came out I put another tray on top to flatten the pastry down. Once cool, I thickly layered cream, halved strawberries and squeezed on strawberry sauce before dusting it with icing sugar to finish.

The Mille Feuille

Australia Cake

Cutting the cake into shape

Ready to decorate

   For the Australia cake I used a picture from an atlas to help me carve the right shape into the cake. The cake cut very well which surprised me a lot! Then I covered the top of it with pale orange icing. This was quite hard as the top of the cake kept falling apart as a result of cutting it. However a little muscavado sugar/sand covered up the worst. Then I arranged the pre-made animals on top of the cake. I felt that It needed a bit more so I embossed the word ‘Australia’ in red fondant and for the finishing touch, I put a white ribbon abound the cake, held on by glue and buttercream.

With the animals and ribbon!

Fondant Animals

The Koala!

   I went to my assessor’s house today and we were going to work on making cute sugarpaste animals. She laid out various coloured sugarpaste on the table and handed me a book on how to make animals. My sister is going to Australia this summer and I saw several Australian themed animals in the book so I spent a few hours making different Australian animals.

   First of all I made a koala bear and he went ok! The icing cracked but I think it is because I coloured it myself. I made his egg shaped body first before the arms and legs and finally the features. His ears were the hardest because they kept falling off despite the glue and spaghetti to hole him together!

my 3 snakes

The tiny pieces of the snake

   Next I made three snakes by rolling out sausages of red, yellow and black. I cut the sausages into segments and them mixed the colours up and attached them with glue! For the heads, I took a pea sized amount of icing an rolled it into a flat carrot shape before scoring a mouth with a knife, putting nostrils in with spaghetti and tiny black eyes.

The kangaroo looked quite similar!

   Then I made an orange kangaroo. His body and tail were all moulded out of one piece of fondant so it was quite difficult to manipulate the icing. Then I attached a pouch, rolled up his legs and stuck the arms on. I finished with a carrot shaped head, little black eyes and nose and orange ears.

   Lastly I thought I would make a crocodile. His body was one piece of icing and it manipulated better than I expected. His eyes were very fun to make because they were three circles layered on top of each other and cut in half. Lastly I stuck his legs on and he was finished!

The finished crocodile

I had to manipulate the fondant piece