Warm sandwiches were brought to the table, the fruit salad was mixed, and Zhang Yanming boiled some milk and made a cup for everyone.

"It's delicious, grandma, this is super delicious." The little girl held up the sandwich and ate it, nodding with satisfaction.

"If it tastes good, eat more. Oops, foreign breakfast. It's not bad, but this salad is too inappropriate to eat with chopsticks. It's hard to pick it up."

Zhang Yanming smiled and went to get a fork.

"That's right, you have to use foreign food to cook foreign food. This is great." Zhang Ma expressed satisfaction: "Not to mention, it feels good to eat it cold, but you have to use your hands to grasp it and it's not very good. I feel like doing it."

You are a mother, everything you say makes sense.

After finishing the meal and cleaning up, Zhang Yanming went to take out the cake from the mold and prepare for decorating. It was very easy to take off the mold, and the cooled cake fell down with just a tap.

The cake needs to be completely cool before decorating, otherwise the butter will melt when you put it on.

Zhang Yanming was operating, and the whole family gathered around to watch.

"Xiaohui, you don't go to work?"

"I have nothing to do today. I'll just go over and take a walk later." The civil servant is really comfortable.

Making a multi-layer cake is completely different from decorating a single layer. You need to consider the position of the support frame. The flowers should be placed in the center and edges, leaving a circle free.

The largest layer below is made of peonies, then a layer of longevity flowers, a layer of carnations, a layer of multi-color roses, the top layer is placed with a wax birthday star in the middle, then piled with longevity peaches, and the edges are brushed with some seven-color pansy. .

All the flowers are not made of solid color, but are made of three layers of gradients to make the flowers appear more three-dimensional and realistic.

Single-color gradients are relatively simple. When adding cream to the piping bag, just mix white and color. For multi-color gradients, pay attention to the fact that the color levels must be loaded parallel to the nozzle, and the amount of each color must be calculated.

For example, if you want to draw a rainbow piece, the amount of each color must be consistent to make it look good.

In fact, many things depend on proficiency. Just practice more and practice will make you perfect, and you will naturally become handy. Well, you also need a little talent.

Li Wulan looked at Wang Jiahui: "Do you understand?"

Wang Jiahui scratched her scalp and looked at Li Wulan with innocent eyes, a look of confusion on her face.

"She's so beautiful, daddy is so awesome." Zhang Xiaoyue looked attentively with her big eyes wide open, her little face full of admiration.

"What a talent." Zhang's mother babbled: "When did you practice it? Tell me, it's all turned into a work of art."

Zhang Yanming glanced at his mother, changed his mouth to pull the blades, and then began to pack the boxes.

The five-layer cake was packaged separately and tied firmly with ribbons. Zhang Yanming wrapped four colors of cream in sulfuric acid paper and made small holes. After installing it, he used it to decorate the cut edges of the goblet.

"If you do it normally, you need to mark the positioning of the stand on the surface of the cake to prevent the center of gravity from being unstable during installation. Generally, just dot it with cream. If you use a plastic stand, you need to mark the position accurately, or dig a hole first. "

He gestured and explained to Li Wulan and Wang Jiahui: "You can practice flowers slowly, but you have to remember the method."

"It takes a while to practice. It feels very difficult." Li Wulan was a little unsure.

"Rose flowers are relatively simple." Zhang Yanming picked up the flower stick and flower nozzle, and squeezed out a blooming rose in a few strokes: "The flowers cannot be made all the same. They must have buds, some in full bloom, and some half-open. As long as you squeeze out Just change the angle of your mouth a little when you do it."

"The petals should be layered, with the center high and the edges low, so it looks better when placed up there." As he spoke, several flowers of different shapes were squeezed together and placed on the operating table.

Li Wulan looked at Wang Jiahui: "Can you do it? It's like a magic trick."

Wang Jiahui burst into laughter and shook her head.

"You're doing it too fast. Neither of them has ever touched the basics and can't understand where to go? Slow down, take it one step at a time." Zhang Ma came to the rescue of the two ashamed girls.

Zhang Yanming looked at the time and saw that it was still very early, so he simply gave it to Li Wulan and Wang Jiahui and taught them how to make roses.

The little guy followed with his eyes wide open. After a few glances, he ran to the flowers on the operating table: "Grandma, I want to eat that, Huahua."

"Want to eat?" Zhang's mother picked up the flowers with chopsticks: "Here, take one bite. Is it okay for this pigmented child to eat?"

"It's okay," Zhang Yanming turned around and glanced: "The ones extracted from plants are the best ones I bought."

There are many types of pigments on the market, including powders, pastes, and pastes, with different ingredients. Pure plant-derived pigments are the most expensive (generally color pastes) and the most harmless, and the colors are uniform, durable, and bright. .

Powder is the worst, mostly industrial synthetic products, but cheap.

"Actually, the best way to adjust the color is to post-dye it. Make it all with white cream, and then use an airbrush to paint it. You can have the effect you want according to your imagination. The shades are also easier to control. I will teach you about that later."

"An airbrush? Is there one?"

"No, I didn't buy it. Let's talk about it after you finish this first. There are flowers and twelve three-dimensional zodiac signs. You need to practice including using fruits to write. You need to know at least seven or eight types of flowers, and each zodiac sign needs to be practiced. There are two postures.

Writing generally means happy birthday in English and Chinese characters, plus blessing and longevity, which must be practiced well. If the writing is ugly, the whole cake will not look good. You need to be able to write the word longevity in at least three ways."

"That's it, my handwriting is not pretty." Li Wulan pursed her lips.

"Writing with Guozhan is different from using a pen. You can practice it, and it doesn't require a lot of energy." Zhang Yanming took Guozhan and wrote a cursive Chinese character longevity on the console: "You can also trace edges, like drawing. Trace the edges the same way and then fill them in."

"The characters are beautifully written." Dad Zhang gave a rare compliment.

"Okay, I don't want to watch it with you, I forgot to open the door." Zhang's mother put Zhang Xiaoyue into Zhang's arms and went out to open the store: "Hurry up and bake the cake, we won't sell it today?"

Zhang Yanming cleaned up the work surface, scraped up the butter and fruit and threw it into the trash can: "Okay, you two bake the cake first. If you want to bake bread, you can try it. After baking, I will go and deliver the cake."

The two of them were skilled at this. They weighed the dough, weighed the sugar, and beat the eggs, and then they began to work. Zhang Yanming cleaned the fancy tools and put them away. He sealed the unused cream with plastic wrap and put it in the freezer.

"Dad, I want to eat cream." Seeing the things being put away, the little girl became anxious.

"I just finished eating, can my stomach still hold it? Eat in the afternoon, and let my aunt and old aunt make flowers for you in the afternoon."

The little girl pursed her lips, a little dissatisfied, but still obeyed: "Well, then I want to eat a lot of flowers."
Chapter completed!