Baking Project

ICES Day of Sharing

August 09, 2008 By: Min Category: Baking notes, Cake decorating techniques 1 Comment →

Beads made from isomalt

Today has been a wonderful day for me. I’m still tired, but excited to download all the pictures from the above event. ICES stands for International Cake Exploration Societe, and the Malaysian rep is our Miss Rosalind Chan (of ICCA, PJ). Here’s the brief description about ICES Day of Sharing :

West Meets East/ ICES Day of Sharing

Watching and learning from two renowned cake decorators. Ms Rosalind Chan and Mr Alex Tan See Fong demonstrating the latest techniques in cake decorating from the West and East.
Ms Rosalind Chan will be showing the method of creating ladies accessories like jewellery box, high heel shoes, necklaces, cosmetics, etc with the latest cake decorating tools. Masterchef Alex Tan will be showing his popular simple and fast yet interesting ways of creating cartoon character cakes from his latest book, Cartoon Cake Decorating.

So the day begin with Rosalind showing us a few new gadgets like moulds for shoes and swag, lace cutters, beadmaker and new designs using isomalt. Here’s her doing the demo.

The purse, shoes and jewelry, all from sugar.

ICCA is also selling moulds to make these beautiful babies, to be used with chocolate or tinted isomalt. Cute ya ?

You can check out ICCA shop in PJ, for cake decorating equipments - Wilton, FMM, Patchwork cutters and some Canadian brands.

After lunch, Chef Alex Tan showed us about 7 cake demos using his product. He is quite funny and the shy-shy type . Rosalind and us had so much fun teasing him, since he’s the only guy there and the rest are all girls/ makcik-makcik.. Mainly his technique is colouring with the airbrush and using lots of compound chocolate.

(looks like a phone to me )

How to use this mini airbrush ? Chef said - on the machine, put some oil-based colouring in the round cup, and then press that little button thingy. When you need to change colours, just wash the round cup and put in new colour. Sounds easy (in theory la..) .

Chef at work :

Yummy chocolates..

Cartoon characters made using Tan See Fong’s moulds. Easy to use, just melt the chocolate, pour it in the mould and put in the fridge for a while.

The completed cakes. Alex was using non-dairy whipping cream to frost all these cakes.

Some sample of flowers using their piping tips and air brushed.

Well, all in all I enjoyed the event and learn a few new things. Hopefully I’ll be able to attend more of ICES Day of sharing. Oh yes, I also met Miss Jo, who created MyCakeDecoClub. (Check out the link !) Happy caking .