January reflectionBy Cassie M Cole

learning to make rose buds

Making rose buds are really hard to do in my open it took me like 4 hours of just working to make them look even kind of right. I was really mad when I could not make them look right so I had to stop and relax for a while before I could try again.

My mentor and I working.

Royal Frosting?????

My mentor called me and said that we were going to be making royal frosting and start learning to make roses. I had no clue what that was so I had to start looking up what it was, and how it was made.

Royal frosting roses.

Oh Now I Get It!!

Royal frosting is just egg whites water, and powdered sugar. Royal icing is a kind of icing that dries hard so you can make flowers or other designs ahead of time like for a wedding cake. It’s a little hard to see but these are drop flowers.

190 drop flowers

trying to find a new icing tip

My favorite type of flower is a drop flower, and the tip I have is a 115 and its make really really small flowers, and I needed a bigger tip for my cake. I went to 5 different stores before I just gave up and order because no one just have a 190 drop flower in the cake section of any store.

This is what a size 190 drop flower looks like.

Learning A New Technique

When I first started to make roses I would try to do what my mentor was doing, but I could not. My mentor said its like making a upside down U. I tried and tried over and over and could not do it until I tried with royal icing.

Things I Have Done This Month.

I have learned to make roses, rose buds , and royal frosting. These types of flowers and frosting are very often used. I also worked on righting in cursive,( which is not very easy.) I also made my mother a birthday cake.

Things I struggled With.

I really struggled with learning how to do roses, and rose

buds. I also really struggled righting in cursive because you

can’t stop you have to keep the same presser the whole

time and if you mess you there is no going back.

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