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Baking 220 Day 15. Last day at Le Cordon Bleu.

The day has arrived. My last day at Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts.
I have enjoyed every single minute of class time. I have learned so much, and I feel extremely prepared to hit the work force.

For the past two days I have been using hot sugar to make pieces for my last practical. Chef drew a showpiece, put it together, then told us we had to make one just like it for our sugar practical. 

Pieces from the past two days. 

Today I put all the pieces together to make this:

I was one of the lucky ones today. Nothing fell before she graded it! (There was about 3 or 4 people whose showpieces collapsed or broke in some way before Chef could grade them.) 

Want to know what this showpiece earned me? A freaking 100!!! =D 

What a way to end the day! 

I am off to Colorado to put my skills to use! 

Wish  me luck. ;)

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Baking 220 Day 12

I have no pictures from yesterday because my entire underwater showpiece collapsed before I could snap a picture. But I don't mind too much. I thought it was rather ugly.

Today we practiced making this evil-looking flower. There are going to be three of them on our practical showpiece. I am glad we get to start our practical tomorrow! 

evil looking flower =) 

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Baking 220 Day 10

We finished our blown sugar fruits today by airbrushing them. We made a fruit showpiece by gluing them to a base. A couple of my fruits broke =( so I ended up with this. 

I thought it looked sorta bland.
Chef told us there is going to be a huge laminated ribbon bow on our practical, and I am not very good with laminated ribbons. With my extra time today, I practiced making ribbons. I made a small bow and because I didn't want to throw it away!, I attached it to my fruit showpiece. =)

Monday we are making an underwater showpiece with little fishys and a small crab! =D 

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Baking 220 Day 8 & 9

Despite blistered fingers, I am having a blast in this class!

Yesterday we learned the blowing sugar technique. In order to learn spheres we were instructed to make snowmen. We also had to learn laminated sugar ribbon. We were only required to make one snowman, with a laminated ribbon scarf, but I was having so much fun, I made two. =) 

Today we also learned how to make fruits. We will airbrush them tomorrow and build a small showpiece. We also will be making candy canes. =D Yummo! 

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Baking 220 Day 7

Today was the first day of working with sugar for this rotation. For the rest of the rotation, we will be learning different techniques each day. Here is today's showpiece.

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Candy Cane Workshop

Kyle and I had a blast today learning to make candy canes. It really is so easy. Very doable at home.
They ran out of peppermint oil, so we used strawberry and lime to flavor our candy canes. Very sweet!

Sugar before it is pulled.

After it has been pulled

Candy Canes!

Yumm!

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