Baking Midterm

 

 

Great work everyone!

Easter Cake!

Just over a week ago, we celebrated Easter. For dessert I made a two tiered cake with two layers in each tier. I covered it with cream cheese icing and garnished it with mini eggs. Last week I made angel food cake for the first time and yesterday I made ladyfinger sponge, which is a light spongy cake. I really enjoy baking and learning new things, especially if they turn out (which they don’t always do J)!  In the past couple of months, I’ve learned how to make things that I didn’t even know how to pronounce before, such as challah (hol-ah), which is a braided bread. I really enjoy working in the bakeshop!

 

 

 

 

Vocational Awareness

Vocational awareness day was a bit crazy no doubt. Our chef went home sick so as a group, we got everything ready just in time. Even if that meant that some of us had to stay late the day before!

The Vocational Awareness day was to promote our course. All of the RRTVA courses that are offered at NPC were all in the commons and were trying to promote their course as well.

Most of the desserts we had gotten ready the day before the awareness day. All we had to do was complete them and put it all together. Someone had already gotten all of the chocolate into the cups for the mousse, and so all they had to do was put the whipped cream and hazelnut crumb on top.

The cupcakes were all baked so all we had to do was decorate them, and with the choux paste, all that needed to be done was for them to be filled, placed in the little cups, and chocolate drizzled on top.

The desserts we were displaying weren't hard to make, well for us anyway :) We had 3 very different desserts, each one being spectacular and award winning!!

Our 3 desserts that we had were...... Chocolate Mousse, Choux Paste, and both Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcakes. (My favorite was the Mousse!)

The experience was really different, with not having any chef and being on a tight time line with getting everything done. I really enjoyed it though.

 CHOCOLATE MOUSSE

CHOUX PASTE

CHOCOLATE AND VANILLA CUPCAKES

Titanic Anniversary Cake

 Last week, I did this Titanic Anniversary cake, but things aren't going as they expected. The fondant was dry, I try to form the fondant to the way it was but it had dried piece which to me makes it useless and it's brittle when trying to make the shape of the ship. Also is the butter cream icing I used made the cake dry so that it's thrown, it should be used for cake pops. Next time if I made an Anniversary cake, I better give the new one some improvements.

First Month in the Bakeshop!!!

We`ve been working in the bakeshop for about a month and a half. We have made many things including cheesecakes, cookies, pies, tarts and much more! We have also made yeast products like cinnamon buns, bread, bagels, and challah. I love decorating the desserts and seeing the finished product. I have had fun learning many new things while working in the bakeshop. I’m super excited to continue baking!!! 

Red Velvet cake w/ buttercream frosting :)

Chocolate Mousse!

Awesome First Month :D

It has been a great first month for me in the baking course. I really love making all the delicious things like cakes, bagels, cheesecakes, cookies, and even cinnamon buns. Today I have made a carrot cake, and also baked bagels for the cafeteria. It is a huge change for me to be switched from a welding course into a baking course, because I did not know where anything was mainly located in the bake shop. My favorite thing to bake so far was probably the apple pie, because it took me only 1 class to make it, and it turned out really amazing. I am learning new things every day, and am trying to improve on some things as well. I have been given lots of help from Chef Nikkle, and my classmates. I think that this course is one of the best courses I have ever taken, and also one of the funnest ones. I hope that I will be able to keep taking this course in the future to complete level 2. I am really excited for the mid terms that are coming up in April, and also for the all the things that I will make/bake in this class.

Cake Pops

Second semester has been an exciting time of learning lots of new things. From yeast raised products like Challah, to layering up cakes. I thought cakes and custards would be my favorite station because that’s what I enjoy doing most at home. Although after visiting all the other stations I cannot choose the one I enjoy the most! The one I dislike the most would have to be pies and tarts. It’s just so difficult to add exactly the right amount of water to the pie dough so that it holds together properly.

I forget what station I was on when I made these cake pops. They were really easy to make. All they are is mushed cupcakes with the icing, then formed into balls and frozen. Then dipped in chocolate and decorated with sprinkles and chocolate drizzle. They tasted really good!