2.15.08: Fruit Miroir
A cassis flavored mousse cake. This is one of my favorites so far. The mousse was very tart.
A cassis flavored mousse cake. This is one of my favorites so far. The mousse was very tart.
2.19.08: Carrot Cake
The carrots are made out of marzipan. I love the way the carrots look on this - very cartoony.
2.19.08: White & Dark Chocolate Mousse Cake
The inside has alternating layers of the white and dark chocolate mousse. I didn't slice this one open - I'm not a big fan of white chocolate.
The inside has alternating layers of the white and dark chocolate mousse. I didn't slice this one open - I'm not a big fan of white chocolate.
2.20.08: Sacher Torte
This is supposedly a secret recipe that has been adapted from the Sacher hotel in Vienna. It's a very dense chocolate layer cake with apricot jam in between and on top. Then covered with a chocolate/fondant glaze. As you can see my partner, Janine, and I had some problems with air bubbles in our glaze.
This is supposedly a secret recipe that has been adapted from the Sacher hotel in Vienna. It's a very dense chocolate layer cake with apricot jam in between and on top. Then covered with a chocolate/fondant glaze. As you can see my partner, Janine, and I had some problems with air bubbles in our glaze.
2.20.08: Dobosh Cake
This cake consists of thin layers of sponge layered between chocolate buttercream. The top is a sponge layer that is covered with caramel and set on the rosettes for decoration.
This cake consists of thin layers of sponge layered between chocolate buttercream. The top is a sponge layer that is covered with caramel and set on the rosettes for decoration.
2.21.08: Chocolate/Hazelnut Cake
Inside this cake are five layers of Chocolate sponge cake layered between a chocolate/hazelnut mousse.
Inside this cake are five layers of Chocolate sponge cake layered between a chocolate/hazelnut mousse.
2.21.08: Flourless Chocolate Cake, decorated with Chocolate Meringue "logs"
My friend Kathryn and I sat around at the end of class eating almost all the meringue off the cake... I felt sick to my stomach when I left school that day.
I left this cake in the freezer overnight so I could take it my friend Lauren's Friday night. The cake was stolen from the freezer!
My friend Kathryn and I sat around at the end of class eating almost all the meringue off the cake... I felt sick to my stomach when I left school that day.
I left this cake in the freezer overnight so I could take it my friend Lauren's Friday night. The cake was stolen from the freezer!
This past week also ended our Cakes I section. For the exam we all had to make the same cake - a plain genoise (sponge) cake with buttercream frosting. We also had to practice our writing by writing Happy Birthday on the cake. I asked if I could write Congratulations or some variation of it because Friday night George and I were attending an engagement party for our friends Scott and Vanessa. When I asked the Chef this I forgot that during the grading portion of the practical the Chef's cut out a piece of cake to evaluate. Below is my cake: it's filled with a rasberry jam and the buttercream is flavored with vanilla. The almonds are caramelized to give them a sweet flavor.
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