Semester 2, week 8, class 23

Today we finished up the Petit Four Sec cookies

The Sable covered in chocolate, with pistachio.

Linzer Cookies, with raspberry jam inside, covered with sugar and almonds
I think these were Sable as well, with Macaroon heart outlining, with raspberry jam inside.

These look funny, but were really good.
Marzipan between two pecans, dipped in chocolate.

The cookies in the front: Graham ginger cookies, dipped in white and dark chocolate, with pistachios on top.



All plated up

Semester 2, week 8, class 22

Today we finished the opera cakes.
we took the big slabs...
Le slab
Then cut em up...
Then put ugly writing on them...

We also made really big ugly ones..

They tasted all right, but I didnt really like the way they looked.

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Too lazy to upload shit.
Do it later.
Did Opera cakes.
Tomororw- Petit Four Sec.
Night <3

Semester 2, week 8, class 21

Today, was another prep day.
We are making Opera Cake, and Petit Four Sec, which is not quite the same as the Petit Four Glace, but similar concept.
An Opera Cake is a I think a 7 layer cake, consisting of an Almond sponge, chocolate coating, rum simple syrup, Ganache, Coffee Butter Cream, and Glaze.

It was a rush-rush day due to the fact that again, we got in 30 minutes late.... Thanks to the class in front of us. I don't quite blame them because I had that teacher last semester and my class always ran late as well.

so, here are some shitty pics.
The coffee butter cream.
The Almond Sponge base covered in Rum Simple Syrup (looks so gross lol, I swear its not tho)
Really awful picture of the chocolate coating.
The Rum Simple Syrup
mixing the cookie doughs for the Petit Four Secs.
The Ginger ..something.. I forget.
There were 2 other kinds I can't seem to remember.
But I'll find out.

Don't forget...









J/K!

School this week.

Semester 2, week 6, class 20

Today, we made petit fours.
They were pretty time consuming, these are what made us late the past two days.
So instead of making 48, we made only 20-24, to save time, and so other classes behind us could continue on with their day.

We started off with the slab cake
Which we cut up into strips.
Slab cake with lemon filling, covered with a thin layer of butter cream and marzipan.

Then, we took those strips, and cut them into various shapes.
Various shapes, diamonds, squares, triangles, rectangles.

Theeeeennn, we covered these things in fondant.
My group chose, orange, pink, green, and yellow.
But there wasn't enough food colouring in this shit, so it didn't turn out quite..bright.
Anyways...
This was pretty annoying.
Trying to get it even along the sides... which it wasn't quite yet here.

Yah. I'm a pretty big fucking slob.

So, colour them bad boys up with the fondant, and then we get again, shitty piping gel.
This time, chocolate... This is when it got really fun!!! (not)

The rectangle. Colour- Orange!!!!!


Diamond. Colour- Pink!!!
(and yet again, my photo gets flipped..wtf?)

Triangle. Colour-green!!!

Square. Colour-Yellow!!!

Them in the box.
I was pretty bummed about the colours. They all looked white.
Too runny, not enough colouring in it.
Also, pissed about spending all the time on it, and then using a shitty piping gel.
It piped on nice, and then 2 minutes later, splooged out, like you can see in this picture.

Petit fours. I hate you.

Semester 2, week 6, class 19

Uhm, what a shitty class.
We, for the 2nd day in a row, got in over 30 minutes late due to the class ahead.
We also ran 45 minutes late..getting out..
Which sucks cuz I was actually the first one done for once.

It was a really stressful class, and I didn't get ANY good pics of the pulled strudel we made.
Which was hard to make.

1) make your mix
2) take the dough, plop it on top of a clean table cloth
3) roll it out a bit
4) stretch till it is as big ...as the fucking table.
5) butter it up
6) add some bread crumbs
7) sprinkle raisins and walnuts all over
8) put apples tossed in cinnamon sugar on one edge..
9) roll it once by hand
10) roll it ..over..and over..and over again, with the table cloth.

The end product is this weird, lumpy roll the size of the table, filled with stuff.

I only got one pic, of it cut up, in a box :(
Yah I know, they look like shit.
mmmmmmm
Apple pulled strudel or w.e
On top of a lame class, bitch at subway didn't heat my pizza sub.. who does that?