Throughout are project we met several challenges but overcame them in little time. For example, we tried to make our own gum paste, but it just turned out all sticky and it wasn’t a gum paste consistency at all. So, we decided to play it safe and buy the gum paste instead of making it ourselves. This turned out fine because we still got to use the gum paste and learn how to work with it. Another problem we ran into was figuring out how to work with the gum paste. This took us some time because if you leave the gum paste out for too long, it hardens and it is hard to work with. But, if you work with the gum paste for too long, it becomes sticky and hard to work with too. So, we tried several ways to make flowers and in the end we decided to make simpler flowers that were easier to make with the gum paste.
We learned many things in are project that impacted how are cake came out. One thing that stood out for us is it is extremely difficult to make realistic gum paste flowers. It takes years of practice to master gum paste flowers. If we had more time, we would most likely bake the cakes a little longer because two of the four cakes did not cook thoroughly in the middle. We would also spend additional time to learn more on how to make our flowers more sophisticated and realistic. If we had to give any advice, we would say to maybe to keep the cake for your family because it can tremendously hectic to serve to everyone.
In total, our project cost around $22 , not including the ingredients we used to make the cake. Overall, we think that our project turned out pretty good and we’re glad we had a final product to show at the maker faire.
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