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Cat cake carving workshop, Sydney

30th September 2009 by Lindy Smith

I’m now home after my Australian cake adventure… and have lots of pictures, thoughts, tips and ideas from my travels to share with you all.  To get the ball rolling, I’m starting with the second workshop I taught at Iced Affair in Sydney – the novelty cake carving class.

Cake carving class – cat cake

This cake was designed, literally, on the back of an envelope, whilst talking to my publishers on the phone. They were asking for a ‘sassy’ cat cake design to be included in my ‘Party Animal Cakes’ book. The result of my rough sketch is my ‘purrectly exotic’ cat, on which this class is based.

None of the students had ever carved a cake before, so this class was a challenge a few were a little nervous about. By the end of the day, however, the comments I was hearing were along the lines of:

“I’m never going to be afraid of carving a cake ever again”

Of course, this was all I wanted to hear!

Students creating their edible cats
Students creating their edible cats

White chocolate cake – perfect for carving

The cakes, baked by Evan, were a dense white chocolate cake. A new flavour for me, so I couldn’t resist sampling a few offcuts… delicious, but disastrous for my waistline (I don’t usually eat cake!)

The finished cakes were a treat…hope you’ll agree.

cake carving workshop - The finished cat cakes
The finished cat cakes

If you are interested in attending a similar course in the UK then please do get in touch.

Sweet wishes

Lindy

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  1. Elizabeth Solaru says

    1st October 2009 at 11:25 am

    The cakes look just puurrfect (see what I did there).

    I am looking forward to seeing more pictures from your Aussie trip and counting the days till the ‘Lily cake’class next year.

    XXElizabeth

  2. Tamara says

    12th March 2010 at 2:27 pm

    I was wondering if you have a good basic cake recipe for carving?

  3. Jane Dolder says

    16th March 2010 at 12:55 pm

    Hello Tamara,
    We would recommend the Madiera cake for carving as it is a dense cake. Look in “Cake Chat and Recipes” link and look at “Baking the perfect madeira”
    Jane

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