This is effectively the end of class for me. Next week is five days of practical tests. We get assigned 3 mystery items per day to whip up. Who remembers how to make a baguette or a macaroon? That was months ago. It should be interesting.Our final project fell in the "this isn't all that practical but it's kind of a cool skill to know" category. Sugar sculptures only have showpiece value. You can eat a chocolate sculpture. Sugar sculptures are actually made with isomalt which is a sugar derivative. You don't eat it unless you want to spend the next day in the bathroom.
We were supposed to come up with a theme but I just took some of the components and did an abstract showpiece. There is blown sugar (the spheres), poured sugar (the disks), pulled sugar (ribbon), rock sugar (that white rock) and net sugar (the bubbly sheet in the background).
It was pretty challenging. I don't see a future in sugar sculptures for me.
