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Lesson 70 – Cookies!
It was cookie day! I had been hearing about this class for weeks and was excited it was finally upon us. Our chef warned us that we were about to make literally hundred of cookies and should invite...
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Lessons 71-75 – Plated Desserts
Next we moved onto plated desserts. In these next couple of lessons we took some of the most successful recipes of famous chefs and recreated them in class. We started class by discussing what some of...
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Lessons 76 – 78: Moving on to chocolate – Chocolate tempering, clusters and...
Mod 4 was here, signaling our ¾ mark in the program, we only had 25 more lessons in the classroom and then we were off to our externships. I had been looking forward to this mod from the very...
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Lesson 79 – 82: Filled and dipped chocolates
Now that we had our feet wet a bit we moved onto filled and dipped chocolates. Whether filling or dipping, it is important to make sure that the chocolate shell is even or you make a stress point in...
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Lessons 83 – 86: Our Chocolate Showpieces
After completing our lessons on molded, filled, and dipped chocolates it was time to move onto the conclusion of our chocolate module by building out our chocolate showpieces. We were broken out...
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Lessons 88 – 90: Piping borders, rose buds, and full and half roses
After finishing up with our Marzipan fruits, we moved right on into learning how to pipe borders, rose buds, and full and half roses. So much time was spent on learning how to make shells, reverse...
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Lessons 91 – 92: Styrofoam Dummy Cake with Chocolate Plastic Rose
Now that we learned all sorts of piping techniques, it was time to learn how to cover a cake! After all, in 2 lessons time we were going to start working on our final wedding cakes and we had yet to...
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Lessons 93 – 99: Gumpaste Flowers
With only 7 lessons until the end of school, it was time to get down to business on our wedding cakes. We started off making generic flowers, everyone was required to make 1 full blown rose and leaf,...
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Lesson 100: The Final Wedding Cake Assembly
Wow, we’re at the last class. Crazy. I came into class with a plan of attack on how I would finish my cake. I was so nervous about all the work I had left to complete that I came in an hour early to...
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That’s all folks! Pastry School is Done!
Well, now that all 400 hours of classroom instruction were over, all that was left to do was graduate and head off to our internships. The room was all set with our cakes, portfolios and treats we...
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