week 9 cake decor!!!!

Da Bears!!!! This was my first venture into cake decorating and I think it went well. Chef showed me how to make the "scallops" which are in blue- and then I just praciced my accuracy and consistency with the orange with an homage to my beloved, but struggling bears. I am not a fan of the italian buttercream-- a little too stiff for me. The biggest problem is evening out the buttercream- very tedious

week 8

Unfortunately my pics didn't turn out for week 8- but my cakes turned out pretty good. They came right of the pans and were relatively fluffy. I really didn't care for the angel food cake. Tasted a little funny. I was impressed with the way the butter cake turned out-- although there was some tunneling due to overmixing. I had a lot of fun in this lab because I had never made a cake before so I was looking forward to the challenge.

Biscotti and lemon bars

This was alot of fun- I guess because every thing pretty much turned out good. Amanda and I worked well together- we had no bumps in the road and had alot of fun doing this lab. I really liked the biscotti- it went well with my morning coffee.

My first napoleon!

This was pretty easy since we didn't have to make the puff pastry. We just had to bake it off and then layer it with the pastry cream and creme chantilly. I wish I would have had some strawberries to make it more colorful.

Pate a choux swans

This was one of the more difficult items for me because I had major problems with the pipng bag at first but then I got the hang of it. You have to let the pastry bag do the work and just guide the dough into form. The swan heads were a little fat, but it was my first time so I am not getting too worked up on it yet.

week seven eclairs

The ecalirs turned out good. I do have to work on handling a pastry bag filling them properly but they turned out better than expected. The pastry cream was tasty too. I just have to remember to starin next time to get the texture right.