because they ARE sweet
I seriously cannot stress how MUCH I miss LCB, like er, the classes and chefs and friends. *sad sad sad*
Anyway, back to the original post. I’ve been lagging much and I reallly dont know how working people can still blog every or 2 days. Oh, I better remind my mum to PLEASE call someone fix the oven I wanna make french macarons, not coconut ones. *because I have sooo much almond meal lying around* Anyway that’s not the point, I JUST want to make ‘em. 
Oh, right, as you can see the picture above. It’s my .. best looking piece of sugar work, I mean considering I only have less than a week of experience in handling them. It’s a Fruit basket. I wonder what happens if I replace this as the regular visitors fruit baskets. Obviously they’re gonna die of diabetes, *evil laugh muahahah* But I’d be good and just go buy some real fruits instead of making them because they’re really, really, finger-burning-good (KFC style).
The making of these sugar works starts from cooking sugar, water and glucose to about 148-155 C (Trust me, you need a sugar thermometer). Then pour the molten sugar onto a silpat under a heat lamp, let it cool abit till it’s pliable, not too soft not too hard. We start aerating the molten by pulling twisting and folding them, oh of course colouring is added to the sugar after it has reached the desired temperature while boiling. The more it’s aerated, the shinier it would be, but it would be harder to handle cause it starts to harden. Then a piece is cut out, shaped into a ball and blown. Ya, with a sugar pump of course it’s still burning hot. It gets a bit tricky on the blowing part, if it’s too cold, or too hot, it won’t turn into the desired shape. So, practice is really the way to get around with it without pulling off hair and scratching backs.
It gets pretty fun once you get a hang to it which I finally did.. u know. The satisfaction really paid off, I mean, compared to the earlier attempts. (don’t laugh ya.) This corn was a banana turned corn. While my friend was pumping air into it, it got kinda outta control and she kept pumping and pumping. So, the shape of it looked like a corn instead of a .. banana. So the chef helped turned it into a corn.mm yum..
This was the last day last lesson in LCB, we had real fun. One of my classmates even took up the apple and had a bite onto it. I asked a stupid question how does it taste. Apparently it was sweet !! Haha, and hard too. bad apple… There’s a video of it but I’m not going to put up because apparently it’s gonna spoil the reputation. HAHAHA…
Oh, I forgot, the reason they look ‘kinda’ real is cause they’ve been airbrushed as well ! Ah Ha! Air brushing works wonders.
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