Too Good To Be True

So for my pie practical I was a little nervous of how my dough would turn out because the other day at home I was practicing but I did the whole process wrong and made the dough way to tough though I learned from my mistake which really helped me ace the physical test.  

1. I first made my mealy dough, I shared some flaky dough with a comrade then I made the apple filling and finally I assembled the pie.

2. I took a one of the flat pie sheets and rotated my dough and cooled it for 20 minutes then I rolled out my flaky dough and cooled that as well. 

3. I place the mealy dough in my shell and fill it with the filling I prepared. 

4. Afterwards I took my flaky dough out of the cooler, rolled the dough up a rolling pin and rolled it out onto the top carefully.

5. Finally I sealed the dough, did decorative slits with a knife, and baked it for 45 minutes.

Result

Flavour: *****/***** [Not too sweet and not too plain]
Aroma: *****/***** [Magnificent]
Level: Easy and simple. [Takes a few tries on the dough]

"Pingueeny" The Fondant Penguin

 

Ahhhh, at last, it took about 40 long minutes to create this and yet it's blurry :P . Oh well. This was a little project that our baking instructor had each of us do: mold a small ball of cake into whatever you wish and cover it with fondant. His hat is my favourite part!
Merry Christmas everyone!

COOKIES

Hi
 I am now in the cookie section. This is my second time in this cookie section. I made sugar cookies today and iced them. I piped on a mint green buttercream icing and put on some white circle sprinkles.

Fondant Cake-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle!

Hi,
    Today was my last day in the cake section. We worked on our fondant cakes it was really fun and cool. I made a teenage mutant ninja turtle. It looked really good. I also made pumpkin muffins with cream cheese frosting in the middle. They turned out really nice. I am almost don't my checklist and everyone has to finish by the end of the semester. I am really sad that this semester is ending I really love baking, but I will be doing it again next year. Hopefully im doing it will all my friends. So that's all.
Bye

Eclairs by Carolin

Baked Pies Week

A Little Bit Of Everything

Okay so we are now starting our third rotation so I have had the chance to be at each station twice. I can tell already that I have gained and improved upon a lot of skills. Our baking midterm was at close to the end of November, it definitely wasn't as difficult as I was expecting. I made a white pan loaf, cloverleaf rolls, chocolate chip scones and double chocolate muffins. It was a busy morning but I managed to finish all my products before I went for lunch(definitely a moment that made me proud:P). While I was at the pies station this time, I got to experiment with a chiffon pie recipe, which after being revised actually turned out really well. Also I got to make a fresh fruit tart where I got to slice the fruit in super thin slices and arrange it on top of the pastry cream in the tart shell, which to me was a lot of fun. Also I got a second shot at being manager....this station is definitely more challenging and comes with more responsibilities than the other stations. For the most part though I kind of enjoy this station because it truly lets you know where your weaknesses are and what you would need to improve upon in order to work out in this industry. We are now in the pies unit which I am really enjoying. Over the summer I worked in a bakery where we baked pies, rolls, buns, loaves and some other products for farmers markets, and every Thursday when I would work all I would do, from 6 in the morning when I started until when I was done at 12, was fill and top pies. the thing was though, I never got to make the shell so I'm really glad I get to learn that part now to.:)

Fresh Fruit Tart

Strawberry Chiffon Pie