<p> The 42nd annual cake show, organised in association with the National Consumer Fair, was inaugurated on Friday at St Joseph's Indian High School grounds.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The big attraction this year is the London Tower Bridge, a 24X7 feet structure made entirely of sugar and weighing over 500 kg. Making the individual towers, suspension cables, and getting the Victorian Gothic style right took over 700 man hours. Sam Ramachandran, one of the cake artists, said, “It took a lot of patience because everything has to be according to measurements. It is much like engineering.” <br /><br />C Ramachandran, started the cake shows back in 1974 with a 14-foot model of the Eiffel tower. “I learned the art of cake decoration in West Germany and England. I want this art to continue growing,” he said. The 76-year-old has now handed over the cake show to students from the Institute of Baking and Cake Art. <br /><br />Sugar is seen in its best form as a Thanjavur painting of a female dancer, finely detailed with edible lace and jewellery. The creator, Purva Sadvilkar took special Thanjavur painting classes six months in advance to prepare for the final piece. <br /><br />Apoorva Bhargava and Khadijah Madar imagined the issue of demonetisation in icing- new Rs 500 and Rs 2000 notes blooming on a money tree atop an India-shaped mountain. Explaining the concept, Madar said, “The rising sun behind the mountain shows that though people are struggling, they are hopeful about benefits of the move. The river flowing down is cleansing the system of black money.” <br /><br />Staying true to the traditional method of cake decoration, Avril Pinto used only piping bags and nozzles to create intricate meshes and designs for her wedding cake. “People prefer molds these days because they are precise but I wanted to show that it is possible to achieve perfection by hand as well,” Avril said. Planning and executing the 25 kg cake took two months and the weather made matters worse. “Royal icing is sensitive to moist weather. Because of the rains in the past week, the meshes became soft and dropped off. I had to redo most of it,” she said.<br /><br />Actor Shankar Nag in icing, a two-storey dollhouse made of cookies, a Rajasthan wedding themed cake, a queen in a Victorian Gown, a book coming alive with tale of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ are among the other attractions. <br /><br />The show will be open to the public from 11am to 9 pm every day till January 1, 2017. <br /><br /></p>
<p> The 42nd annual cake show, organised in association with the National Consumer Fair, was inaugurated on Friday at St Joseph's Indian High School grounds.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The big attraction this year is the London Tower Bridge, a 24X7 feet structure made entirely of sugar and weighing over 500 kg. Making the individual towers, suspension cables, and getting the Victorian Gothic style right took over 700 man hours. Sam Ramachandran, one of the cake artists, said, “It took a lot of patience because everything has to be according to measurements. It is much like engineering.” <br /><br />C Ramachandran, started the cake shows back in 1974 with a 14-foot model of the Eiffel tower. “I learned the art of cake decoration in West Germany and England. I want this art to continue growing,” he said. The 76-year-old has now handed over the cake show to students from the Institute of Baking and Cake Art. <br /><br />Sugar is seen in its best form as a Thanjavur painting of a female dancer, finely detailed with edible lace and jewellery. The creator, Purva Sadvilkar took special Thanjavur painting classes six months in advance to prepare for the final piece. <br /><br />Apoorva Bhargava and Khadijah Madar imagined the issue of demonetisation in icing- new Rs 500 and Rs 2000 notes blooming on a money tree atop an India-shaped mountain. Explaining the concept, Madar said, “The rising sun behind the mountain shows that though people are struggling, they are hopeful about benefits of the move. The river flowing down is cleansing the system of black money.” <br /><br />Staying true to the traditional method of cake decoration, Avril Pinto used only piping bags and nozzles to create intricate meshes and designs for her wedding cake. “People prefer molds these days because they are precise but I wanted to show that it is possible to achieve perfection by hand as well,” Avril said. Planning and executing the 25 kg cake took two months and the weather made matters worse. “Royal icing is sensitive to moist weather. Because of the rains in the past week, the meshes became soft and dropped off. I had to redo most of it,” she said.<br /><br />Actor Shankar Nag in icing, a two-storey dollhouse made of cookies, a Rajasthan wedding themed cake, a queen in a Victorian Gown, a book coming alive with tale of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ are among the other attractions. <br /><br />The show will be open to the public from 11am to 9 pm every day till January 1, 2017. <br /><br /></p>
