Baking 220 Day 1& 2

On day one of Baking 220, Chef started us out making three different truffles. Orange truffles (hand rolled), Casis-black current-truffles (piped), and Rocher truffles (clusters).


orange truffles waiting to be dipped in chocolate


Casis truffles


Rocher (has a macadamia nut in the middle)

Today, we finished them off using tempered chocolate. The orange truffle and rocher got dipped in dark chocolate, and the casis got white chocolate.

Orange truffle ("haystack" style), Casis, & Rocher

These were so good!!!

After we finished those, we learned to make poly-carbonate molded truffles.

To do this, we have to use tempered chocolate. If the chocolate isn't tempered correctly, there is no way to save the truffles. You have to start completely over. It is so frustrating. But when the truffles pop perfectly out of the molds, the satisfaction is worth the frustration!

Mimosa truffles-half filled.

White Chocolate Mimosa truffles.

I was so happy when these came out perfect!! =D

Tomorrow=peanut butter fudge and caramels!!

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Gingerbread House Competition

Get ready for it.

Here it comes.

Loads of pictures.

Jill, my partner, and I looking at the pieces of gingerbread.

Jill assembling the house

Working on the roof pieces

Me

Jill

The roof pieces waiting patiently to be put on

It's coming together....

I absolutely loved this piece. Isn't it the cutest abominable snowman?!

So cute!! The winning team had these pieces on their display. They made them about of marzipan.

Almost there!

Done!

Jill and I both had a lot of fun putting this together. I absolutely love working with Jill. Even though she had previously been out of school for three days because of strep throat, she still showed up. She is amazing!

This is the winning team's gingerbread house. It was amazing! They had little Cindy Lou on the inside of the house.

*All pictures were taken by my gracious boyfriend, Kyle.

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