Monday, 11 March 2013

String work cake (Stork imprint)

One thing that completely blew me away, when I first read through Mr Eddie Spence's book on royal icing, was the so-called "Oriental String Work", which is ever so delicate, requires an enormous amount of precision and an unusual level of confidence, as it entails turning the cake up-side down during the piping process!

I really really really wanted to have a go at it.

Luckily for me, some very dear friends of mine invited us for dinner - and I was allowed to bring a cake........ It was the perfect opportunity to make my first attempt a creating an oriental string work decoration, as they are both remarkably kind and understanding people, and therefore would bear with me, if the decoration of the cake wasn't completely perfect. And they did!


As they had just had some very good news, I added a little stork in the center of the cake. As the poor creature looked rather amputated I opted for covering it is gold; hoping that it would look a little for majestic... I need to practice ;-)


The actual cake was lovely: A gluten free chocolate/nuts/orange cake with orange/ginger syrup.
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous11 March 2013 at 14:52

    JA, jeg synes det ser næsten perfekt ud. Indtrykket er vældig artistisk og giver udover et orientalsk look også antydninger af vintergæk-eventyr. Straks tænker jeg dog: ..og hvad med topdekorationen? Det blev så en postuleret stork. Der er altså noget med de ben der ser helt mystisk ud. En kopi af storkespringvandet i 3D kunne måske være næste udfordring!

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  2. Signes pretty and fun cakes12 March 2013 at 08:04

    @Anonym (aka Ingolf); Benene ser (bl.a.) sære ud, fordi det ben, storken "står på", er alt for kort - og Storespringvandet i 3D lyder bestemt som en udfordring :-)

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  3. Mai-Britt13 March 2013 at 12:34

    Ihhh, hvor er du blevet dygtig!!! Det er superflot, for jeg ved jo, hvor hundehamrende svært det er. Hvordan i alversen pipede du med kagen vendt på hovedet uden at ødelægge toppen..??? Har du 3 arme eller noget? :-)

    Jeg må da vist spare sammen til et (nyt) piping-kursus.

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  4. Signes pretty and fun cakes13 March 2013 at 13:27

    Tak, Mai-Britt!

    Kom forbi en weekend når det passer dig, så viser jeg dig gerne, hvad jeg lærte i UK om piping og royal icing - lovede faktisk Mr Eddie, at jeg ville undervise andre, så du kommer bare :-)

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  5. Mai-Britt14 March 2013 at 11:08

    Wow, det tilbud hænger jeg dig bestemt op på!! :-) Fedt, tak. Vi tales ved!

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