Lab Experience: Cake Decorating!

(winning!) Cake for our cake assignment, portraying the Global Food Issue of overfishing.

One of my favourite experiences this year in culinary arts was the baking and cake decorating assignment and contest. Because we learned the basic cakes and methods, I now feel prepared to perhaps tackle more complex cakes, to build onto the skills I have now acquired. I also had a lot of fun designing the lay out for our cake and actually decorating it (and learning about world food issues at the same time!) Although I am not very artistically skilled, I think I did a fairly good job at decorating my practice cake (the triangle-shaped one) and that my contributions to the group contest cake benefited our project as a whole. I am very proud of our final product!! Now that I see the amount of time, effort, creativity and detailing that goes into cake decorating, I am able to appreciate well-decorated cakes even more. It’s amazing that people get to do this as a career, and that they can be so skilled at it.