A Miniature Macaron Tower

For my final piece in my Level 2 A.B.C. Sugarcraft course I wanted to make a miniature wedding table with a macaron tower as the wedding cake. I love French macarons and make them all the time so I thought it was fitting to recreate a tower for the table.

The piece is very small and delicate, the collar alone took over 2 hours to make and when my Tutor Dawn put the collar on I held my breath waiting to hear it break. I then had to put the macaron tower on top of the cake. The macarons were all individually piped out using Royal Icing and to make sure they looked authentic I piped Royal Icing inside each shell before sandwiching them together and putting on a cone. As everything on the cake has to be edible I made the ribbon out of petal paste and shimmered to make it look like a real ribbon.

I was delighted with the result, although I managed to damage the collar in my exhibition for a brief period of time the cake was perfect!

ABC Sugarcraft Exhibition

I can't quite believe an academic year has passed and I have finished my Level 2 A.B.C Sugarcraft course. What a year it's been, the opportunity to train under a fantastic Tutor - Dawn Pennington and to learn as much as I have has been amazing.

All the students from the Bournemouth and Poole College who took any of the courses in Sugarcraft were invited to exhibit their work to the public. It was great to see all the hard work that people had put in to make some fantastic pieces of work. I didn't realise quite how much I had achieved until all my pieces were together on one table. I was also delighted to hear that I had a provisional mark of 3 distinctions.

It's been an exciting year and I have made some great friends. My Friday mornings just won't be the same over the summer! Now it's all systems go to beginning Level 3 in September - watch this space!

Sweet Pea Fairy

I have been attending classes at Magic Moments in Poole on a Saturday morning with the owner Karen, normally we make flowers but as we had a few extra sessions before we finish for the summer Karen asked us if we wanted to do something special, which was this very cute Sweet Pea Flower fairy complete with little toadstool.

She took a little while to make but I think she is adorable and made from sugarpaste and petal paste. The head was molded using a special fairy mold and all her features were painted on. I particularly love the little fairy shoes complete with bows and the pretty sweet pea hat.

My daughters thought she was lovely and now she has pride of place on our sideboard watching over all of us!