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Friday, December 08, 2006

Sugar sculpture at Le Cordon Bleu

It's just a week from graduation and Susan's class is moving into their final phase, poured and pulled sugar sculptures. Basically you cook sugar (adding the color during this phase) and then either pour it into a mould (British spelling) or pour it onto a special mat, and then pull it and create shapes. And each of the petals on the flowers are individually pulled and shaped. Simple, huh? Yeah right. (photo right: Susan's sculpture.)

So do you eat it? You can. It's really like hard candy; for example, those green and red ribbon candies that some of you might remember from Christmas time.

Anyway, this is what they are going to have to do for their final exam next week. (photo below: Ann Chang with her calla lily sculpture.)



(photo above: Susie and her sugary work of art.)

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