Year 9 Cake Decorating Incursion
On the 5th and 6th of August, students in Year 9 Food Technology participated in a cake decorating incursion. During the incursion, the students learnt how to decorate cupcakes using fondant. Throughout the day students created cake toppers and made cupcake designs in the form of a rabbit, giraffe, fox, hot air balloons and some of their own designs. The valuable skills learnt on the day will be used by the students in their upcoming assessment task for Food Technology.
We were very grateful to have Rosemary from Cake Decorating Solutions, Arndell Park who has been delivering this workshop to us for many years at our College. We thank her for sharing her gifts, talents, tips and tricks to ensure we are able to achieve our Personal Best for our assessment task.
We also would like to thank Mrs Bylsma who helped organise and set up all our resources for this event as well as Mrs Numan and Mrs Akkoumi who continue to help us strive for our personal best in every lesson.
Student Feedback from the day:
During week 3 of Term 3, our Food Technology class was able to learn new skills and practise them at a school Incursion, where we got to experience working with fondant. Rosemary gave us techniques and ideas to follow on our cupcakes. We focused on the skill of manipulating fondant and making unique designs to guide us with our approaching assessment. It was fun and we had an amazing time with our classmates and Rosemary. We thank teachers for providing us with this opportunity to start and perfect our skills. - Tanisha Kumar, Abie Macasuba
Earlier this week the Year 9 Food Technology classes were given an amazing opportunity to explore cupcake decorating and learn new skills required for handling fondant. We were introduced to Rosemary, a professional cake decorator who demonstrated a variety of essential fondant techniques, such as rolling, cutting, moulding, imprinting and fondant glueing, allowing us to implement these skills into forming the detailed animals. Her professional guidance and demonstrations made the lesson both engaging and educational, allowing us to turn regular cupcakes into pieces that were unique for each student. Rosemary’s ability to simplify complicated steps into smaller, more manageable parts ensured that all the students were able to follow the steps at the same time and fully understand the skills that we were being taught.
Using her guidance and demonstrations, we were able to practise these techniques by designing and decorating the cupcakes we had baked in our previous lesson with colourful fondant designs. Rosemary not only helped us enhance our baking and cupcake decorating skills through a practical experience but also provided valuable tips on how we could use the cake decorating skills we learnt in that session in the real world. Additionally, working with Rosemary allowed us to use her knowledge to prepare for our upcoming assessment, where we have been asked to showcase our cupcake-decorating ability. The skills that she has taught us and the extra advice she has provided have been essential in helping us get ready for our task, ensuring that we are well-prepared to decorate our final cupcakes. Overall, our day with Rosemary was an exceptional experience that helped us improve old skills and learn new ones that could be seen as highly beneficial for not only our assessment task but also for any decorating tasks we may experience outside of school. - Sophia Zerafa and Banee Atwal
