How good is Zhou Yi's fondant?

Writing this character note in early 218 is actually about Zhou Yi in 217.

In the past year, Zhou Yi and his team's friends kneaded the sweet and soft fondant, and created a lot of doll cakes, such as Wu Zetian in her girlhood, the Monkey King (made by her teammate Tang Juzi), Jordan chan and Liu Ye, celebrities in online games, and countless people, such as the bride in a wedding dress on the castle and the chubby baby in front of the bell and drum tower ...

Until the end of the year, he and the team relied on.

"amazing! After 8, the young man won the international gold medal for making cakes! " After being frequently "exposed" by the major media, what made the majority of netizens even more "worship" was Zhou Yi's reply: I have made this kind of fondant cake many times, and this time it is normal!

The gold medal work "Wu Zetian" which was screened on the Internet was awarded as "the best in the world".

according to the theme setting of the contest highlighting national and urban characteristics, this cake Zhou Yi chose Wu Zetian as the theme of her girlhood, and her characters are graceful and charming. It is accompanied by Suzhou gardening designs such as stone lions and white marble, interspersed with traditional China cultural elements such as traditional Chinese painting, carving seals, and sugar-pulling palace lanterns.

Zhou Yi's idea is: As a craftsman in China, the world competition must be Chinese.

this is a very complicated work. Generally speaking, fondant dolls are like sculpture art, and the plastic materials are different. Zhou Yi uses healthy and edible fondant mixed with pectin, fruit acid, milk powder, oil and cream, and its texture is soft, similar to gypsum used in sculpture.

if classified by professional methods, it is more exquisite than sculpture: if you want to be a beautiful person, you must be proficient in human structure and anatomy; To make a bun, you must be able to do beauty salons; To make jewelry, you should know something about jewelry design; To make clothes, you should be familiar with fashion design and production ...

Zhou Yi said that the above-mentioned craftsmanship is only a part of the work, and it is the more exquisite production techniques that can surprise the judges and international friends.

The gorgeous costumes worn by dolls, such as inner skirts, bras, waist guards, waists and belts, were also rolled thin by Zhou Yi and his team, which were put on by the figures layer by layer, instead of being carved into distinct layers with tools. "The hardest thing is that it is seamless, and you can't find any splicing points on it."

If the modeling test is the fondant technique, then the China elements displayed in the scene test the "meticulous attainments". Some netizens said, "Zhou Yi's hand looks like it was kissed by an angel." He painted on the sugar skin, decorated the Persian carpet with gorgeous bouquets with a pen, and gave birth to a pair of mandarin ducks with a few strokes on the big porcelain bottle. Even the seal hidden in the screen painting was painted by him little by little.

The work "Wu Zetian" took seven days from the conception of topic selection to the design and production, and then it was shipped to Britain to participate in the competition. Bright swords in the battlefield, carve and cast hearts. As soon as China's temperament works appeared, the judges and international friends were amazed.

Zhou Yi is a post-8s generation. Influenced by his father, he was interested in traditional China arts such as sketch and seal cutting when he was a child. He began to learn "sugar-making" in college, and was best at dough sculpture.

after years of practice, he quickly discovered the bottleneck of dough sculpture industry: because of its high price, finely carved dough sculptures are rarely sought after in the ordinary market, and the investment value is not as good as that of pottery and root carving. Where is the future of dough modeling technology inheritance? This has become Zhou Yi's heart disease.

"simply combine it with the western process of making fondant cakes." Based on this idea, Zhou Yi pioneered the use of China's traditional dough modeling techniques and food carving's techniques on the basis of Western techniques, and they developed a fondant that is more suitable for using various techniques, so that the fondant can create any desired image like 3D printing.

In life, Zhou Yi spends most of his time in inheriting and developing traditional handicrafts. He engaged in research and development, innovative training, trying to integrate a closed fondant cake industry chain. In order to make the best fondant cake, Zhou Yi basically works from 9: a.m. to 1: p.m., busy studying the ingredients and ingredients of fondant, as well as things like mold production. In a year's time, Zhou Yi finally developed a delicious and convenient new formula.

All the works in this international cake competition use the fondant invented by Zhou Yi and his team. "One of the difficulties in making fondant cakes is that if we roll sugar like a noodle, it is difficult to achieve the ultimate thinness of the sugar skin. Fortunately, the new formula we have developed has broken through the difficulties. This is the sugar we used in this competition, so that we can make clothes that are thin and fleshy." Zhou Yi recalled that subversive innovation surprised and delighted the judges. Some experts tried to beat the cake, but it was "unscathed".

To make lifelike dolls, Zhou Yi always believes that "sugar" is alive, and "turning decay into magic" requires "ingenious" pouring. "My dream in my heart is to make fondant the first brand in China, so that China's traditional dough modeling, carving and other skills can be passed on in another way, and then sail out to sea."

does the cake maker count?