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This image is really old from when I was still in school studying pastries!Date is from 2005!!
This is a wedding cake topper that I made.
The swan is made of pulled and blown sugar. For the body, it is all blown sugar and the head and neck was pulled out from the end to create a solid piece. The wings were pulled and then given their texture and shapped and attached later (as well as the tail).
The hearts and the rest is made of pastiallage.
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Comments: 16
I love sugar blown and pulled pieces! This is just gorgeous!!!
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That's a master piece! I wanna eat it, but it's so pretty I don't want to eat ir at the same time
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Thank you! Even though I made it soooo long ago, I still like it.
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I'm in my second year of school studying pastry, I can only hope to become as wonderful as you are with desserts!!!
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oh second year?
Dang, I only got one incredibly pull year + 4 month extern XD But anyway, I've been in the industry working now for 3+ years under a very talented chef, so I've learned a lot. (But there's still more to learn!!)
Thanks for your comment!
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lol pull?XD that should be "full", sorry for the typo!
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wow very pretty ^^ i've wanted to try doing these kinda things before but i'm not really great at cooking and such lol =_="
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Whoa, pretty damn good job with the swan, it's beautiful! The wings turned out amazing (love the detail). I also enjoy the contrast of white on white, as they still differ not making the cake look simple, the design is lovely
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Thanks so much for the comment! <3 It would be fun to do more wedding cake toppers like this! (It seems so many people just get the fresh flowers).
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Some imagination is always welcome and yours was a damn good example of an unique cake. Flowers are nice, but I think your option was way better as it differs from everything else. The couple who'd have that cake would be thankful for the fact that it's not an everyday cake, if I may say, hehe
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The swan is just amazing. I love its carefully detailed wings.
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Thanks so much! I want to create more pieces from sugar in the future.
The detail on the wings is not too hard actually. We have a leaf press which after pulling and shapping the wing, before it hardens we press it between to create the pattern. So easy to add that detail.
The hardest thing is creating the swan body, you have to keep the sugar warm while shapping, but at the same time, once you got it blown to the proper shape you want to cool it immediately or else it deflats. Hair dryers come into use XD
Ah sorry, sometimes I feel like I go into explanation of things and annoy people 
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I would love to see your future efforts!
Oh, I see. That simplifies that end of things, but now that you describe making the body... x_x
No, it's interesting. You realize most of us non-pastry-chef types have no clue how this stuff is created, right?
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Thanks so much! I want to create more pieces from sugar in the future.
The detail on the wings is not too hard actually. We have a leaf press which after pulling and shapping the wing, before it hardens we press it between to create the pattern. So easy to add that detail.
The hardest thing is creating the swan body, you have to keep the sugar warm while shapping, but at the same time, once you got it blown to the proper shape you want to cool it immediately or else it deflats. Hair dryers come into use XD
Ah sorry, sometimes I feel like I go into explanation of things and annoy people
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