Sweets – Page 14

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I Made It Out Of Austin!

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The weeks are flying by so quickly! The start of custards has been fun, we’ve made creme brulee and creme caramel, as well as bread pudding (with a bourbon sauce) rice pudding, and then Gateau St Honore and Religieuse, some very traditional French desserts, and well, it is a French school technically! It’s gone mostly […]

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Custards

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Laminated doughs finished nicely at the end of last week, the doughnuts and beignets were delicious and the exam went well, gaining me a nice A overall. We then fulfilled our tradition of going out for dinner at the end of the block, 9 of us this time, crowding into Magnolia eating and chatting and […]

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Pumpkins and Brioche

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We didn’t win the pumpkin carving competition in school. This was the finished product, the tongue of roasted red pepper grossed everyone out *grins* These were some of the others And this was the winner Chef is already coming up with plans for next year! It was a nice weekend. DmentD and I spent Saturday, […]

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Happy Halloween!

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The zombie cake got finished, pictures to follow, but suffice to say he looked awesome. I got DmentD to print off some of the photos so I could take them into school and show him off, impressing some of the instructors, including ones I don’t even know! *grins* This week at school has been a […]

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Busy Busy Busy

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Laminated doughs has been good so far. We made 3 different types of puff pastry and then a whole host of items with them, palmiers, pitiviers, chaussons, band aux fruit, tart tatin, mille feulle, brie en croute, salmon en croute and lobster newberg. With the exam on chaussons and pitivier. It went alright, it’s certainly […]

School

And The Verdict Is…

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I got my scores back for Petit Fours.. And I got an A I’m happy now First day of laminated doughs was interesting. Made 3 different types of puff pastry, I have a report on Antoine Careme due Wednesday and one due on a local bakery and the viennoiseries and laminated doughs they sell due […]

Domestic

Weekend Be Gone

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But it was a nice weekend. Starting Friday after class a group of us went to Magnolia and had food and drinks and chatting and gossiping and much relaxing and winding down after the exam! Saturday DmentD and I didn’t do much, through we went round to a friend’s house in the evening for dinner […]

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Three Day Exam

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So glad it’s over, though it went well. Tuesday this week was exam free, and we finished the battenburg, opera cake and petit four glace.. I love that opera cake so much, it tastes like tirimisu in cake form.. and I love tirimisu! Day one was mostly prep work, making as much as possible that […]

Photos, Random

Because I’m Bored

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I finished my presentation so since I now have nothing to do here’s some photos of it.. I’ll take some photos of the actual petit four tray on Friday so we can see just how similar… or completely unsimilar they are!

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It’s A Sad Day

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My exam on Friday… I got my lowest score yet in the practical exam… I only managed 190/200 *grins* I did however manage 102/100 in the theory! I lost the 10 points in the practical for my chocolate. 5 for it developing a fat bloom and 5 for having a bit too much on my […]