31 May 2011
Posted by Sozi
There was one thing at my exhibition that everybody scrambled to get in line for. And that was the googly-eyed cookies and idea bicuits.
They were made by my friend Orlando who bakes cakes, brownies, buns and tarts. She then takes delicious photographs and puts them on her blog Projekt Puderzucker.
She has to do all this when she gets home from school though. Because Orlando is seventeen.
I asked her how she learnt to bake and she explained that she taught herself.
There is no amazing little trick, no little secret button I can tell you about that one can press and then you think "Oh! lets make cakes & cookies" and they actually turn out yum.
My grandfather is good at making cakes but it was never a "watch and learn" process. He always had them there and ready to eat. I never got to see him make any. Maybe it's in the genes?
Where do you ideas come from?
Inspiration is all around me. When somebody asks me to make cookies or cake I usually have one or two weeks until I need to come up with an idea. So i think about it...
The good thing is that I get to go to school and am forced to use my brain on a daily basis. Most of my inspiration comes when I am in school. Either the teacher says something that sparks my cake imagination or I am so bored that I drift off and have a flash of genius.
The problem then lies in transferring the idea of the taste, texture, colour, shape and detail onto lined paper with only a blunt pencil or a smudgy fountain pen with purple ink!
What do you want to do when you finish school?
Both my parents have worked freelance in creative jobs for the largest part of their lives. I grew up with that, so I could not imagine doing anything other. I don‘t know if it will turn out to be cake for the rest of my life, but I don't mind getting my hands dirty and never doing the same thing twice. Or at least not in exactly the same way.
I would like to study design. But at the moment the easiest way to express my creativity is by baking. Butter, eggs, flour and sugar are cheaper than most other working materials. And I must say the feedback is very gratifying.
Photographs by Orlando Lovell. Join her baking adventures on facebook.
There was one thing at my exhibition that everybody scrambled to get in line for. And that was the googly-eyed cookies and idea bicuits.
They were made by my friend Orlando who bakes cakes, brownies, buns and tarts. She then takes delicious photographs and puts them on her blog Projekt Puderzucker.
She has to do all this when she gets home from school though. Because Orlando is seventeen.
I asked her how she learnt to bake and she explained that she taught herself.
There is no amazing little trick, no little secret button I can tell you about that one can press and then you think "Oh! lets make cakes & cookies" and they actually turn out yum.
My grandfather is good at making cakes but it was never a "watch and learn" process. He always had them there and ready to eat. I never got to see him make any. Maybe it's in the genes?
Where do you ideas come from?
Inspiration is all around me. When somebody asks me to make cookies or cake I usually have one or two weeks until I need to come up with an idea. So i think about it...
The good thing is that I get to go to school and am forced to use my brain on a daily basis. Most of my inspiration comes when I am in school. Either the teacher says something that sparks my cake imagination or I am so bored that I drift off and have a flash of genius.
The problem then lies in transferring the idea of the taste, texture, colour, shape and detail onto lined paper with only a blunt pencil or a smudgy fountain pen with purple ink!
What do you want to do when you finish school?
Both my parents have worked freelance in creative jobs for the largest part of their lives. I grew up with that, so I could not imagine doing anything other. I don‘t know if it will turn out to be cake for the rest of my life, but I don't mind getting my hands dirty and never doing the same thing twice. Or at least not in exactly the same way.
I would like to study design. But at the moment the easiest way to express my creativity is by baking. Butter, eggs, flour and sugar are cheaper than most other working materials. And I must say the feedback is very gratifying.
Photographs by Orlando Lovell. Join her baking adventures on facebook.
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I love ideas.
The only trouble is,
I can't seem to ever finish them.
I decided it was time to ask
my friends for advice.
I thought it was a good idea.
They told me to stop procrastinating.