Pomp and Circumstance

This has been the most amazing journey. I can't describe how awesome it was! Everyday I was learning and doing something new. Every morning I felt so proud to don my chef whites and put on my apron. The time really flew by in a blur. Here is a picture of some of my classmates. This experience will forever make me smile.

My Big Fat Wedding Cake

So this is the last project before the final test and practical. We were given a scenario for the wedding. The couple is young and fun. The brides dress is pink and yellow and the bridesmaids dresses are pink. The wedding is going to be in Fiji and the couple would like their cake to be made of macadamia nut sponge soaked in coconut malibu rum simple syrup, mango curd with mango brunoise, coconut daqcuoise, and passion fruit mousse. That's a whole lotta stuff in a cake!

Each one of my butterflies was hand made and painted out of pastillage and luster dust. I tried to paint them each a little different so that no two would be alike. The entire cake was covered in fondant.

Surprisingly this cake was able to survive all the way home! Even with my crazy driving. People thought I was crazy carrying a three tiered wedding cake through the streets of Manhattan. Now I've been eating wedding cake for the past 4 days. Anyone want to come over for some?

I'm So Over You Pastillage and My Mom Never Liked You Anyway

The theme for this week's project is to make a cake stand out of pastillage in the theme of something that represents your the first letter of your first name. I have no idea how they come up with such silly themes. My theme I chose was Gorillas. I think thus far this is my worst project. Good thing it was a solo project. I would have hated to disappoint my group. There was only two airbrush machines to be shared by 25 students within 4 hours. I knew it was going to be crazy just getting on the machine so I decided to paint the pastillage instead. I don't know why the chef assistant told me to mix lemon extract with food coloring as paint because it never dried! Not even after two days. I was so pissed but there wasn't anything I could do. I just had to wipe some of it off. You could see in the pictures my finger prints all over it. I should have mixed the paint with vodka. While I was gluing the pieces together the paint was wet and slippery and the glue wouldn't stick together. It was a nightmare. But I did what I could. Sometimes you have to understand the medium you are using and work with it. Sometimes making it work for you just doesn't cut it because this pastillage was not working for me....it was whipping my ass. However I do like the bananas I piped on the side of the boxes with royal icing.