Saturday May 14, 2011
Saturday is the day that Eileen and I come in early and learn how to bake and frost cakes. Saturday is my personal favorite day at the bakery. Last Saturday, I described my experience with frosting a cake, but Saturday was all about making roses. Because Sandy is left-handed everything that she shows or demonstrates to us is actually the opposite of what we are supposed to do. This is just an initial challenge to the creation of roses.
Making roses involves a very handy tool that looks like a witch's hat with a screw coming out of the bottom of the hat. It's made out of metal and it is the main tool that we use to making roses. The first step is to stiffen icing in order to make it easier to form petals. This is done by adding powder sugar to the frosting. Once the frosting is stiffened, you put together a frosting bag. A frosting bag has three parts to it. It has a cylinder of plastic that goes inside the bag, which will hold the metal tip. Once the metal tip is inserted, then a plastic cap is put onto the bag so that it holds the metal tip securely. The next step is to learn exactly how to hold the bag and the witch tool. If you are right handed then you hold the bag of icing in your right hand. The left is then the one that holds the witch tool and rotates the witch hat, as the flower is being formed. The petal rotation is that it starts with a beginning petal, the next layer is three petals, five petals, and then seven petals to complete the flower. It takes a lot of practice to get the motion of forming the petal down, but once that has been accomplished then the flower starts to form. In the end, Eileen and I were able to make several beautiful flowers.
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