My third food styling & photography class was all focused around ice cream. The first half of class was fake ice cream that we made out of shortening, powdered sugar and food coloring. I decided on cookies and cream and pistachio. It was so much fun! To make the ice cream look real, and all melty, we watered down the shortening mixture with cornstarch and applied it with a paint brush. Of course the fake ice cream was super simple to photograph as you could take as long as you wanted.

The second half of the class we focused on real ice cream. I made a simple sundae (as you can see below) and my partner held dry ice in a strainer over the ice cream until I had my shot set up, just to try and prevent melting. While I got over a 100 photos of the fake ice cream there was only enough time to take 7 of the real before it was too melted from all the lights. It was a good thing we had the lighting and props all set up before the ice cream was placed in the bowl, otherwise I am sure I would be lucky if I got one pic!

I just love the way this shot turned out. It looks so appetizing, whenever I look at it I just want an ice cream sundae!

Doesn't this look so real? My teacher's only complaint was that maybe the pic was too perfect, but said if I was shooting for someone like Baskin Robbins that is probably exactly what they would want.