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 been fun, a little change of pace from the hecticness of petit fours.

This week is more fun, yesterday we made the doughs and some fillings for croissants and danish and we start making them tonight.

In class on Thursday we’re carving pumpkins for the class to submit to the school’s competition between all the classes. The winning class win a meal in Ventana the school’s restaurant.

At home we’ve been excessively busy. We’re making a cake for Halloween.. Both wanting to try new things and be as extravagant as possible we’re making a full sized (measurements based off of DmentD!) zombie coming up out of the ground.

DmentD got to flex his sfx muscles and make a brain mold out of silicon that we then used to make a white chocolate shell that has been filled with a blood sauce. Copper armatures have been made, that I covered in lurid green krispie treats for the arms and hands. The torso is a green velvet sponge with a wonderful muscley fleshy tone of pinky red buttercream with gummi bones between the layers! And the head, aside from containing the brain has white chocolate eyes and teeth and is covered in krispie treats. And it’s all been covered in fondant!

We’re down to final details now, this morning I’ve been covering the board in fondant rocks and made the dirt yesterday and in the evening’s DmentD has had the airbrush out to paint and colour it all.

I can’t wait to see it finished.