I know, I haven’t written in a while. I was putting it off last week, working on the wedding cake every day I had nothing new to say until it was finished. Then with yard work and being busy, and now I’m working on a scholarship application. Suddenly it’s been nearly two weeks! My doesn’t time fly.

So, anyway, I finished the wedding cake. It came out pretty well. There was plenty wrong with it, especially if you looked closely *grins* but I got an A for it, I learnt lots from making it and I had fun with it. I find the last two there more important than the grade.. though of course a good grade is nice. It meant I got an A for the unit overall. More photos in the gallery as usual, along with some of the cakes from other members of my class.

Now we’re onto chocolate.. Well, it’s chocolate, a chocolate showpiece, a sugar showpiece and then our final exams covering everything from the past nine months. It’s hard to believe I’m on the last unit already, not long now til externship. I’m still searching for a job that will keep me here, no luck so far, I’m hoping my externship will be able to help me out with that a little.

So far we’ve made dark chocolate truffles, cafe cognac truffles and rocher truffles, we have one more rolled truffle today to be presented tonight with the rest for the first project then we move onto molded truffles. As a bonus and extra credit Chef showed us how to make Easter eggs, I got one made yesterday, if I get the time today I’d like to have another go.

Last weekend DmentD and I worked hard in the garden. We had a few beans to plant out and the peanuts but the big project was setting the posts for our hammock. It took longer than anticipated, DmentD using a post hole digger to break up the ground and get through the limestone, and then I was laying on my stomach getting the loose soil out the hole with a cup! We set them with cement and I got to test it briefly.

We took a break in the evening to go and see Monsters vs Aliens, it was cute.

Now I’m spending all my free time working on a scholarship application, about the only one I’ve found that doesn’t say non-residents aren’t allowed. It’s for the Texas Wine and Food Foundation. I have to make four items (a restaurant dessert, a tres leches cake, a creme brulee and 3 petit fours) using a set pantry list and submit recipes and photographs of the items along with an essay and some letters of reference. Three finalists are chosen and there’s a cook-off at the TCA when you make the four items, and a yeast bread, the winner gets $5000, the two runners up $1000. So now I’m figuring out recipes and trying to make everything so I get the application sent off.. Wish me luck!