No More Cake!

So... today was our written mid-term and Cakes practical exam. I think I did pretty well on the written portion and I think I did ok on the practical. As stated in my last post, I chose to make an "Easter" cake. We had to draw a diagram of our cake and hand it in, so there wasn't much leeway while preparing it today.

I ended up having five layers of cake with four layers of filling. I made a lemon bavarian cream which was SUPER SUPER tart! But I balanced it out by alternating layers with a lemon curd/mascarpone filling. The combination of the two tasted really good together. Yum. Love me some lemon. :)

I've also decided that fondant SUCKS. It's just a real pain in the ass to deal with. I should specify - I don't mind making the decorations but it was really hard to cover the cake with the lavender layer. I rolled it out too thin so towards the base of the cake there were lots of cracks. I tried to cover it up as much as I could.

My "special occasion" cake:

We start our section on CHOCOLATE tomorrow! I think most of tomorrow is going to be lecture which will be a nice change.