Lesson 11: Delice Caramel

Today i made Delice Caramel, its lady's finger layered with caramel bavarian cream and pear mousse and in between slices of pears. I have not tasted it yet. But the chef said its good presentation (on the small cake, the big one i didn't temper the white chocolate properly), the big one he doesn't like my presentation that much. Taste he said its good, montage could be better (coz i didn't chill my base cream so it was too warm when i whisked in the whipped cream and it became dense), but he said everyone made the same mistake. Other than that it was a good day.
Here are my presentation:

Lesson 10: White Chocolate Mousse with Blood Orange

Today i made a white chocolate mousse with blood orange. This week is the toughest cake i ever had to make! Its a lady's finger sponge layer with white chocolate bavarian cream and blood orange mousse. In between is a layer of chocolate flourless sponge with sides of "joconde" printed biscuit. The cake is not hard to make but giving the time we had what makes it hard.

Today is not a good day. I was behind and time wasn't on my side! But i did get to finish decorating and stuff. The new chef instructor told me that my lady's finger was a bit overbaked but presentation is good, montage is good and taste is also good.

Here is my presentation of todays' cake:

Evaluation Day!

Yesterday we had our evaluation. It wasn't as bad as i tought it would be but it was kinda bad. I had low marks for organization, hygiene and presentation haizz the most important part i got low points. Other than that my chocolate tempering i got 4pts for that and some other parts i got 3.5 or so. Overall i didn't do bad; total pts i receive 3.28pts..its okay.

Yesterday also we had a new chef instructor supervising us. He's looks young and kinda cute ;P hahahaha now its fun to go to class (its always fun but this is GREAT..eye candy). Yday we made praline millefeuille, its a puff pastry layered with praline crisp and praline pastry cream. For the first time in intermediate i finished first (or second). My organization is good yday, i kept my area clean and work quickly. I was the first one who fininsh the detrempe (puff pastry dough) and the first one to assemble it. Though the puff pastry was a bit underbaked but its good montage, presentation and some other stuff.

Here is my presentation:

Tulips, Tulips and more Tulips

We went to the tulip festival yesterday. It was amazingly BEAUTIFUL!!!

Lesson 7: Mini Tarts & Lesson 9: Plated Dessert

This week i made mini tarts and plated dessert. The chef made a mistake we were supposed to be on lesson 8 instead of 9 but we gonna do our lesson 8 on wednesday.

Here are the two lesson:

Mini Tarts



Pistachio Dacqouise with Fresh Fruits



Warm Chocolate Cake with Cigarettes Tuiles

Went shopping for Summer shoes.....

After i did my Demostration Shift at school i went shopping @ Rideau Mall. I bought a top for $25 and i bought 3 pairs of shoes today. All 3 pairs were on sale, 2 i receive a 1/2 price coz i bought 2 pairs. I actually wanted to buy 1 from this store but the cashier told me if i buy 2 pairs i'll receive a 1/2 price for each shoes so i bought 2 for $31.99. Weehoo!! Than i bought this other shoe for $10.11 coz its was on sale! that is so cheap! Now i have 5 pairs of shoes over here and i'm not sure how to bring it back when i go back..hhmm maybe gotta a buy a new luggage bag if i keep buying a lot of stuff here.

5 and counting :P

*The red,green and white i just bought today.

*The beige and red pointed i bought a month ago.

Lesson 6: Chocolate Bonbons

We made chocolate Bonbons (candies) today. We gotta make 10 truffles,10 rocher, 10 truffles au miel (honey truffle), 10 muscadines. The rocher is really good coz its made of praline paste so you know by now i LOVE pralines. I "tempered" my chocolates correctly so thats good news. I think some dooshebag broke my chocolate decoration while putting it in the proofer!! I'm missing an antena!

Taste: Truffles is a ganache with rum, its not that bad, i'm not a fan of rum. Rocher is so good it taste like Ferero(?) Rocher mmm yumm my roommate can't stop eating them he said its so good i told him he can have more if he wants but he said he's afraid he will get addicted to it hahaha... Honey Truffles is also good. Muscadines i have not tried it yet.

Here is my chocolate box with bonbons:


The back is chocolate Truffles. Middle is Rocher. Bottom is Honey Truffles.

(ooppss sorry senget uh)

The white one is actually icing powder and thats Muscadines.