End of Week 7

So i left out thursday and friday on the last post, i also had Wine class this saturday!

Thursday was cakes. We made a flourless chocolate, Pound cakes, Genoise, and Chiffon.
More Egg foam cakes.
I am not a fan. lol. they are so easy to do incorrectly, or just mess up and im not a huge fan of how they taste haha I didnt take any pics of the cakes i made. But i did take a picture of how chef kat explained them.

 Genoise is an egg foam cake which doesnt have any chemical leaveners so how does it rise?
Like a hot air balloon? Thats right! Well not excatly but when you heat air it expands which makes the hot air balloon rise so that same thing happens in the cake. the air bubbles created heat up and expand.  In the picture is Chef Kat as well Jessica :D


Friday was the exciting and nerve racking day!
We put together cakes!
We Masked and Decorated our Genoise with Italian Buttercream.
We had to split our cake into thirds, and i did it without cutting myself!  And then i tried doing a mosaic firework on the top (as that is something i have never done) But it doesnt look very much like a firework...
I should have make the distinct line the outside and then filled the inside with the colors, while i did the opposite.. I made the inside very distinct.. opps, at least now i know!

Next we did the Pasuwa, which is the cake of my school.  
the Pasuwa is named after the founders / co-founders,
PAtrice Suhner
SUe Singer
WAlter Messiah
It was an honor to be able to make this cake, Still does not seem real that im in Culinary school!
Maybe ill treat my family and friends at christmas and bring one home with me on the plane... 
This has chocolate mousse in it and you have to heat the chocolate correctly as well as temper it into your Whipped Cream and not make chocolate chips, and you only have a specific range of temperature to work in before it cools downs too much and then you cant make it smooth.
So Needless to say i was just happy that we finished it and that it worked out so i forgot to take a picture of it



We finished the day off with opera cake.
Which is  a layered cake. starting at the bottom it goes Chabloner, jaconde, buttercream, jaconde, ganache, jaconde, buttercream, jaconde, ganache and then a glaze all around the cake.  First time i glazed a cake! 

 

 So that was school this week.

Saturday was my last class for Wine and Spirit Education trust.

This class was bit more indepth, tried 12 more wines, talked about how to serve, present, what affects the wine and went into how to pair wines with the food.

Special glasses are made so they deposit the wine at certain spots in the mouth to bring out a specific aspect of the wine.  

This is a Pinot Noir Glass and i  :D

This is Rebecca (She is in PM Pastry with me) and a Chablis Wine Glass

You can see how they are designed differently.  I also got to open a bottle of wine! First time ever! And i did  it :D  I was proud of myself :)

Well Hope everyone is having an awesome weekend, (especially those who got snow :P tee hee)

<3 Amz