Today, I had marked the beginning of my independent component, which is actually getting hands-on training at a bakery. When I first walked into Cake Mama's, they had automatically given me the duty to unstack dried fondant, which was probably the hardest and most painful things I ad done today. I had done this for about 30 minutes until my actually trainer, Ashley, had arrived due to traffic.
When she had first walked in, she had gave quick introductions, then put me straight to work. She first had me cut our different colored discs of fondant for cupcake toppers. This took about most of my time, being about 2 hours 30 minutes. After I had finished making about 5 trays of different discs of fondant, she put me on another project with gum paste, and putting printed images on them, which was really cool and interesting because it is something I have always be curious about how to do.
I had made about some many fondant "toppers", that I was about to crack, until they gave me the chance to work with the fondant roller, which was so amazing! after that bit of excitement, I had gotten to work on the other orders that we had due this week, starting with the closest orders, to the later dated.I had worked on all the decorations for the orders for another 3 hours because of the amount of orders there were and they amount of decorations we had to produce, and while I was at it, Ashley has taught me a lot new techniques and how to work with certain pieces of equipment.
When it was about 2 hours before closing, we had just finished with the decorations for the cupcakes, and I had started to clean up, and soon after, help with the incoming customers for another hour.
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| Ashley teaching me how to use a new tool for a laces. |
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