Our pastry exam is making a sugar sculpture in 5 hours. To do this, you cook sugar, water, glucose, and tartaric acid to somewhere between 315 and 330 degrees, add coloring, and let it cool about to about 200 degrees. Then you make stuff out of it.

So here is my 1st attempt at a sugar sculpture. Notice that I am not an artist. Sugar is extremely fragile and in the 5 and a half hours we worked on these I made about 12 flowers. These are the 3 that survived. I like the colors. The best thing the chef could say about it was, "You seem very happy with your work." Oh well. I have one more attempt before the final.