Author: Sweets
Gardening
We were at it again this weekend, up at silly o’clock for a Saturday morning and heading to Home Depot to rent an aerator. We got to the store before 9 and they were already out (it is the season!), luckily the guy rang up another store and got them to hold one for us. […]
Continue Reading...Caaake
At the start of last week we finished off our poured fondant cake. We covered it in marzipan then glazed it with poured fondant, made some marzipan roses and a marzipan border along the sides. Finishing it by tempering some chocolate piping a double pass border and writing Happy Anniversary. It was a white cake, […]
Continue Reading...Carnival Time
After class on Friday we packed everything up, loaded the car and set off to New Orleans! Arriving at 8 in the morning I napped though no one else did. I definitely needed it having stayed awake all night to help keep DmentD awake as he was driving. We met up with some people for […]
Continue Reading...News
On Monday I had my work test at one of the bakeries I had interview at. It went alright, I cut and filled and masked two chocolate cakes with a rich fudgy icing, and then I made a dozen key lime pies. I was done in a hour and a half and I set off […]
Continue Reading...Crunchy In The Mouth
aka the Croquembouche. We started advanced cakes on Monday, first making the croquembouche. We finished it yesterday. It’s one of two items that’s made in pairs (the other being the gingerbread house) and we scored a 94 on it, so I’m happy. It went a little wibbly at the top and the base isn’t level […]
Continue Reading...Finals
Now they’re over, for me now at any rate, I can talk about them *grins* I didn’t want to jinx myself by telling the world that they were going well! Our menu’s had to be in last week, so we could say what we wanted ordered and most people had spent the previous week going […]
Continue Reading...Time Is Flying By
We had a very busy week this week and it flew by! The holiday plate up went mostly well. I had a few problems with the doughnuts. They’re made and then frozen (given no time to proof) so that they fry consistently, and in a restaurant situation you don’t have to keep an eye on […]
Continue Reading...This Made Me Smile
It’s a video of a ballerina (if you see the other video of her dancing in the Nutcracker, she’s freakin’ awesome) dancing to Dragostea Din Tea (the Numa Numa song), having a fantastic time *grins* I never expected to ever see the moonwalk done ‘en pointe’ but she does it, and does it well!
Continue Reading...February Already
We finished last week with fruit. First we had the fruit report, in partners we drew a fruit out of a hat (we got Kumquats) and then got an hour in the library to research that fruit so we could come back and give a report on it. I knew nothing about kumquats so it […]
Continue Reading...Week Four
It’s hard to believe I’m almost done with week four of this unit already. The time has been flying by, and the last two weeks are guaranteed to flash by we’re going to be so busy. First let’s catch up. I finished last week with the apple trio of desserts. Well, it was apples and […]
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