Sucre avec Stephane Treand MOF

The past two evenings I attended a pastry demo at The Art Institute of Atlanta. This particular demo was Stephane Treand MOF teaching different sugar casting techniques and airbrushing. It was insane. I have never seen anyone airbrush faces, and cats so realistically. Its nice to go to these demos, to see the people you've worked with over the years, learn something new and be inspired again. Chef Treand showed us how to make a puzzle out of pastillage and then cover it in sugar to use in a showpiece. We learned how to make flowers and airbrush a pastillage mask. For those of you who don't know, Pastillage is a sugar dough made with gelatin and powdered sugar, used to make showpieces as it dries very hard. His work was flawless and exciting to watch. Here are some pictures from the demo.





You can click on the pictures to see them in their true splendor.

Stay tuned in next month when I attempt to mimic what I saw Monsieur Treand create.