PME Diploma - Royal Icing Course

My final module in the PME cake decoration. It is the most difficult one among the 3 modules. I took a straight 5 days leave to pick up this course at one shot. It’s tough and we are practically using a lot of the arm muscle to pipe and pipe whole day through, for a good 5 days. We did a total of 3 cakes in this course and the suspended cross stitch is the toughest for me. Have a look…

The 1st cake is relatively the easiest here. We learnt brush painting using royal icing for this cake. See the brush strokes on the flower?

The side view showed a very old English style of cake decoration, with trellis and lemberth.

This is the 2nd cake I’m learnt. The cross-stitch is tough and we had to strained our eyes to ensure all the lines are piped properly

Yes, the suspended cross-stitch. I had it collapsed on me twice. It’s so difficult to make it suspended in mid-air.

Finally, the side patterns here. These are the killers. We used the smallest piping tip, 0. **Fainted** I piped and piped and it kept breaking. But finally, still pulled through and here’s the wonderful completed work.

Lastly, the final cake with all those suspended (again!!) “octopus-looking legs”. This is another killer work. When I’m finally done with this, the satisfaction was un-describable”