Individual Desserts

Green Apple Charlotte with red currant coulis, clear vanilla sauce, red currant sorbet, and apple chips.

Warm apple charlotte with apple compote, apple caramel sauce, green apple sorbet, and caramel decorations

Baked Pineapple tart on puff pastry with lemon frozen yogurt, caramel sauce, and port wine reduction

Bruleed lemon tartlet with basil creme anglaise, berry sauce, raspberry coulis, candied basil, and mixed berry sorbet.

Pineapple tarte tatin with passionfruit pineapple butter sauce, kefir lime clear sauce, a pineapple chip, and lime frozen yogurt

Spinach, mushroom, and goat cheese Jalousie with Bechamel sauce

Kiwi Milk Marmalade tarte in puff pastry with kiwi coulis, kiwi pieces, kiwi cookies, and lemon frozen yogurt.

Classic creme brulee with shortbread

Creme caramel with candied kumquats, hippen cigarettes, and clear caramel sauce

Chocolate crepes with chocolate ganache, caramelized pears, caramel sauce, chocolate sauce, and cranberry swirl ice cream

Orange crepes with orange pastry cream, orange butter sauce, orange supremes, meringue petals, and blueberry sorbet

Chocolate marquise with creme chantilly, cranberry compote, mint, chocolate sauce, and mint creme anglaise
This is the entire section, because I have been a lazy, lazy bum! Happy Holidays all!

Chocolate final

On our very last day of chocolate we just had to make a Queen of Sheba torte, seen below, and make a box of chocolate, just to test whether we could temper two kinds of chocolate.


Mines in the bottom row, in the middle

Chocolate Candy Stands

We had our last day of the chocolate section (part one) today! Unfortunately we spent the whole time learning to temper, which I already knew. So when we got our final chocolate project, I was excited to be able to use a higher level of difficulty. I found some shoe molds which immediately made me think of Jewels, so I made this stand in honor of her. The shoes inside the box say Manolo Blahnik on their tags. I'm also including some other ones that I thought were really cute and/or good

Amy's

Rachel

Krystal

Jess (my current partner)

Kelly (former partner) This was definitely my favorite one of the day, though she had to alter the design due to breakage

Violetta

Mine
My favorite part about it was the "tissue paper" I made by coating a transfer sheet with a super thin layer of tempered white chocolate, letting it set just a little bit, then placing it transfer sheet up in the box, letting it set completely, and peeling off the transfer sheet. The color is cocoa butter.

Midterm cakes!

I'm going to post some other people's cakes first, because some of them were brilliant. Our assignment was to make a special occasion cake with the components we were assigned, and with decorations and some piping of royal icing. Keep in mind that we have worked with all of the components we were assigned only once before today. Some people, myself included, tried things we had never done before.

The Brilliant Josh

Krystal

Amy

Kristyn

Jess (Who will be my partner after this section)

Claudia

Troy

Violetta

Rachel

As for my cake, I am more or less pleased with the way it turned out. It was a little messy, and my design was a little overpowering, but for my first time painting on fondant, I am happy. I went a little crazy with pictures...






Chef Tom cut my cake in half :(

Cakes

My plan for my midterm cake. It will be done on tuesday. I'm painting on fondant to achieve the stained glass effect.

our first rolled fondant cake. We made the fondant ourselves, which was fun. I now have a better recipe than the one I've used before. We did royal icing string work on it, as you can see. This is a chocolate roulade cake with pistachio cream.

This was the teacher, Chef Dianne's cake, which she cut into to show us how cool it looks.
As I said, our midterm is tuesday. We each picked a kind of cake, filling, and covering out of a hat. My cake will be the same sponge that lady fingers are made from and a bavarian filling, with plain buttercream and fondant. I can't believe I'm halfway done with the program!