November 9, 2010.
For me and most of my classmates, today was the last day of dealing with our newly acquired enemy, marzipan. My prediction about my scene was correct... it’s one of the worst-looking in the class, because there’s really not much to it and all my animals look like they were made by a second grader. The animals are falling over, too... but that’s okay, because they’re doing something exciting.
Today we started preparing for the project we’ll be working on for the next few weeks-- pastillage centerpieces. In order to make this centerpiece, we have to build a box out of pastillage, then pipe eight large ornaments and thirty-two small ornaments with royal icing (plus extras in case we break some). The ornaments dry for a few days, and then we put them on the box. Sounds easy, right? We’ll see. What we had to do today was show Chef Gronert the designs for our ornaments. He called everyone up front one at a time, looked at their design, and told them all the things that were wrong with it. After seeing some other designs, I thought mine would be too simple, so I knew he would hate it. I was wrong. I was also shocked and amazed.
When I was called to the front, I was just about to start piping the border around my marzipan dummy cake. I’m glad that event was temporarily delayed, but I kind of wish I had further postponed it by passing out or something on the way back to my table. My border was really ugly. That’s all I have to say on that subject.
The one thing I was happy with today was my marzipan fruit. I wasn’t totally thrilled because my cherry didn’t have a stem, I couldn’t fit my last pear on the little fruit mountain, and I almost forgot to powder my peaches, but I think the awesomeness of my limes made up for all that stuff.
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