A new experiment!
I'm trying something out way early as a trial run for my wedding. Yes, it's time to branch out from my comfortable abilities into...pastry. Yes, that's right. Specifically: chocolate work. And not just any chocolate work, but white chocolate work (with cocoa butter), the most difficult kind. Why you ask? Because white chocolate needs to be melted at lower temperatures and a steadier temperature overall than any other kind, and if it's not the chocolate overheats and gets grainy. I know because this already happened to me once. But I must do it in white chocolate because our colors are dark blue, silver, and cream.
I am attempting to do two things. First, make white modeling chocolate. Second, out of the modeling chocolate, I am trying to make at least one wine goblet to be used as a cake topper. This is extremely frustrating, as I don't even know if it's possible - the cake I got the idea from (Wedding Feast by Kim Morrison) had two goblets as toppers but I am nearly positive they were made of sugar, perhaps gum paste. It's really challenging since I can't sculpt well on the best of days but we'll see how it goes.
If it doesn't turn out I already have an alternative. I'll buy some plastic clear glasses, and paint them with glass paint to look like I want, then use them. But it would be really cool if I managed to pull it off. Wish me luck!
I am attempting to do two things. First, make white modeling chocolate. Second, out of the modeling chocolate, I am trying to make at least one wine goblet to be used as a cake topper. This is extremely frustrating, as I don't even know if it's possible - the cake I got the idea from (Wedding Feast by Kim Morrison) had two goblets as toppers but I am nearly positive they were made of sugar, perhaps gum paste. It's really challenging since I can't sculpt well on the best of days but we'll see how it goes.
If it doesn't turn out I already have an alternative. I'll buy some plastic clear glasses, and paint them with glass paint to look like I want, then use them. But it would be really cool if I managed to pull it off. Wish me luck!