Boston cream walnut doughnuts

A few days ago I made these delicious Boston cream doughnuts. These doughnuts are filled with Boston cream, dipped in some chocolate ganache and topped off with some coarsely chopped, toasted walnuts. This dessert was fairly easy to make and has a great combination of flavors.

Black Box Challenge

A while ago we got a black box challenge. We were given 3 ingredients that all had to be used to create a desert. The ingredients we got were coffee, almonds and sweet potato. I made a sweet potato donut with coffee pastry cream filling and a vanilla almond glaze. I had to work fast to make sure my dough was ready to fry before 11:25. I barely finished on time.  Next time I wouldn't make a yeast dough that would need to be fried. I had trouble filling the donut with the pastry cream. The pastry cream was really thick. It actually tasted really good even with the sweet potato.

A few weeks ago, we had a customer service assignment. My customer was Mrs. Giesbrecht. She was very communicative with what she wanted, so I had no trouble making her a fruit tart. I got a 19.5 out of 20 on my assignment.

On May 17 we finally drove to the chocolate factory, it was a lot of looking at the different kind of chocolates they had for sale, there were chocolate grape wine bottles, Shoes, white bear and sooo much more. For tasting we got some kind of hot chocolate and they added some kind of spice I don't know what that was but that was quite spicy I would have liked it we they hadn't put some weird spice into that delicious hot chocolate but other than then everything we tasted was delicious even those cocoa bits were delicious. thank you:)

A couple of weeks ago we had a customer service assignment it didn't turn out I wanted it to turn out but this is how they looked in at the end. We had to get to know our customer ask what they wanted and then we looked online and found some cute  key lime cheesecakes and so my customer wanted some key lime cheesecakes. For some reason the dough was very breakable but my customer said they were very delicious so that made me happy. But I must say I really enjoyed this project.

Second Level baking has been so much fun, I have learned a LOT of new things like these cute little flamingos, its the first thing I have learned with Fondants so far and it has been quite fun. I was so happy how these cute little flamingos turned out. First I made the cupcakes I added butterscotch chocolate chips and then I used up the pink frosting we had in the fridge, a couple days before I made the cupcakes I made the flamingo heads and the flowers and the wings and put them in an air dry container and let them harden a couple of days and then I assembled them together.

Back Again

It feels so good to be baking again. The first few days were a little slow as we were all getting back into the routine. I have really enjoyed making level two items. I have made angel food cake, chocolate mousse, 5 minute artisan bread and mousselie buttercream. My angel food cake didn't turn out very well because I didn't cool it off upside down, so it collapsed back into the pan. My mousse didn't turn out the first time because I cooled off the chocolate too much before I added the whipping cream, so there was hard chunks of chocolate in there. it was a lot of fun making chocolate cages for my mousse. it is so hard keeping the mousse frozen but not letting the chocolate set to much that it can't be molded. I also made white velvet cupcakes and added mousselie buttercream for the frosting. I also made roses using Russian piping tips. They didn't turn out as well as I wanted them to but it still worked.

 Making chocolate cages

 White velvet cupcake with mousselie buttercream