Baking 212 Day 1 Intro to Cake Decorating

I am back from break and ready to get done with these last two classes!
This is the cake decorating class. We only have one practical and that is, of course, a wedding cake.

Today we started making a Croquembouche. It is a French wedding cake made out of pate a choux and nougatine. For a wedding, the pate a choux balls would be filled with a bavarian cream, but ours were left empty. We are going to finish it off tomorrow with pulled sugar ribbons.

nougatine base. pate a choux balls

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Baking 113 Day 1

I missed Monday because I had a doctors appointment. I went in early today and made this St. Honore Cake. It wasn't as hard as I thought it was going to be. This is the only thing that will be on the practical Friday. Let's hope I don't burn my caramel Friday like so many other students did!

One thing I learned while making this cake-boiling sugar BURNS. It pretty much sucks when it gets stuck on your fingers. That is something I am not looking forward to on Friday!

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