This week our showpiece is out of pastillage and it didn't go a whole lot better. I had thought that working with pastillage would be pretty easy, it is kinda similar to chocolate only you don't need to deal with tempering or anything. Unfortunately, it wasn't. Working with it is like working with fondant or gum paste. However it dries extremely fast so it gets very difficult to work. It is also very brittle and delicate and very prone to breaking. We didn't really have proper time to allow it to fully dry so when working with it it was still soft and prone to breakage, and a lot did just that.
In the end however, it managed to come together. Every other group colored theirs but we opted to keep it pure white, at least for me because I didn't want to deal with the hassle. It is pretty rough-we were supposed to have sandpaper to clean it up but the Chef didn't get any. It is passable however, I suppose.
Unfortunately my dragonfly didn't make the final cut.
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