In the past year, Zhou Yi and his team of friends kneaded sweet and soft fudge and created many doll cakes, such as Wu Zetian in her girlhood, Monkey King (made by her teammate Tang), online game celebrities, Liu Ye, and those who can't name them, such as the bride in a wedding dress in the castle and the fat baby in front of the bell and drum tower. ...
It was not until the end of the year that he and his team won the best record of 3 gold and 2 bronze medals in the international cake competition with the Chinese style work Wu Zetian, and he was known by more people.
"It's amazing! After 80, the young man won the international gold medal for cake making! " After being frequently "exposed" by major media, what makes the majority of netizens more "adored" is 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" on the Internet was rated as "the best in the world".
According to the theme of the contest highlighting national and urban characteristics, this cake Zhou Yi chose Wu Zetian as the theme of her girlhood, with elegant and charming characters. It is accompanied by Suzhou garden designs such as stone lions and white marble, interspersed with traditional cultural elements of China such as Chinese painting, seal cutting and sugar palace lanterns.
The idea of Zhouyi is: As a craftsman in China, the competition in the world must be China's.
This is a very complicated job. Generally speaking, soft candy dolls are like sculpture art, and the plastic material is different. Zhouyi uses healthy and edible soft candy mixed with pectin, fruit acid, milk powder, oil and cream, which is soft and similar to plaster for sculpture.
If classified by professional methods, it is more exquisite than sculpture: to be a beautiful person, you must be proficient in human structure and anatomy; To make a bun, you must be able to do a beauty salon; To make jewelry, you should know something about jewelry design; To make clothes, you should be familiar with the design and production of clothes. ...
Zhou Yi said that the craftsmanship mentioned above is only a part of the work, and what surprises the judges and international friends more is the exquisite craftsmanship.
The gorgeous costumes worn by dolls, such as inner skirts, bras, waist protectors, waistcoats, belts, etc., are also made thin by Zhou Yi and his team, and are put on layer by layer by characters, rather than carved into distinct layers with tools. "The hardest thing is that it is seamless. You can't find any splicing points on it."
If the modeling test is about the technique of fondant, then the China elements displayed on the spot test the "meticulous attainments". Some netizens said, "Zhou Yi's hand looks like it has been 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 a large 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 transported to Britain to participate in the competition. The sword is bright on the battlefield, and the heart is carved. As soon as China's temperament works appeared, the judges and international friends were amazed.
Zhou Yi is born after 80s. Influenced by his father, he was interested in traditional China arts such as sketch and seal cutting when he was a child. The university began to learn "sugar transfer" and was best at dough modeling.
After years of practice, he quickly discovered the bottleneck of the development of dough sculpture industry: finely carved dough sculptures are rarely sought after in the ordinary market because of their high prices, and their 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 the heart disease of Zhouyi.
"Simply combine it with the process of making fudge cakes in the west." Based on this idea, Zhouyi creatively used the traditional dough modeling technology in China and the technology in food carving on the basis of western technology, and they developed a kind of fudge that is more suitable for various technologies, so that fudge can create any desired image like 3D printing.
In life, Zhouyi inherited and developed traditional handicrafts most of the time. He is engaged in R&D and innovation training, trying to integrate a closed fondant cake industry chain. In order to make the best fondant cake, Zhou Yi is busy studying the ingredients and ingredients of fondant, as well as making molds and the like from 9 am to 1 pm. In a year's time, Zhouyi finally developed a delicious and convenient new formula.
All the works in this international cake contest use the soft candy invented by Zhou Yi and his team. "One of the difficulties in making fondant cakes is that if we roll sugar like rolling noodles, it is difficult to make the sugar crust extremely thin. Fortunately, the new formula we developed broke through the difficulties. This is the sugar we used in this competition, so that we can make thin and fleshy clothes. " Zhou Yi recalled that disruptive innovation surprised and delighted the judges. Some experts tried to beat the cake, but it was "unscathed".
Being able to make lifelike dolls, Zhouyi always believes that "sugar" is alive, and "turning decay into magic" requires "ingenuity". "My dream in my heart is to make fondant the first brand in China, so that China's traditional dough sculpture, sculpture and other skills can be passed down in another way, and then go out to sea by the wind."
Does the cake maker count?