AGM

This is by far the 'largest' cake I've ever done. Its for Gerard's ESC AGM held on 28 June 07, for a crowd of about 120 pax. It was also the 'toughest' cake to do as building the layers was challenge, being a large cake. This was not as tough as doing the logo. First I tried to enlarge the logo by it did not work as it would take 'forever' to do that. Finally, I decided to just enlarge by drawing the logo out manually, then reducing it using the photocopier.. that worked wonderfully, thanks to the suggestion from my kiddo. Well, I am proud to say I think the ESC came very close to the real thing that Gerard sent over, though I can't say the same for the smaller workings...I then used white chocolate to 'draw' out the logo..this was done over nights as I had to have a thick layer so that it would stand out on the cake..Finally, after three late nights (ahh finished at 2 am), I was satisfied with my work. On the night before collection date (28 Jun), I was assembling the design onto the cake. Horror of horror, some parts of the logo started to crack! I was soooo...upset. But I had no choice, so I had to transport the cracked pieces with chopstick onto the cake so that it did
break further. I was getting desparate as it was getting quite late and I still had to decorate the rest of the cake, so used more white chocolate to 'seal' the cracks to cover up. That worked pretty well and eventually I finished the cake. Phew! Hope everyone was pleased and more importantly, that everyone had a taste of it. Thanks Gerard.