It started, Party People!
School has started and am crazy happy, no matter how many Pâte de Fruits burned (it was only one batch!) and how many cornets one still has to make until they are perfect! Our chef-instructor was kind to offer my team some of her Pate de Fruit (from the demo) to take home and I have to say tasting them fresh is a delightful departure from the boxed ones.
Other than Pâte de Fruit, we’ve baked yummy Ginger Snaps, weighed a lot of different ingredients (yay Metric!) and (total middle school throw back) did a LOT of cross multiplying! Thank you Baker’s Percentage! Oh we’ve also covered sanitation and I walked into a walk ins for the first time.
I realize now how little Ms. Cherryspoon knew about Pastry as a whole, cake decorating is the very last module and that would be the topic one guesses I’d know a little more about, but this is in no way a bad thing, quite the opposite, I very much enjoyed reading about the history of Baking, starting with flatbreads going through the Middle Ages all the way to Carême.
We’ve just completed lesson five and I already feel that it’ll go by too fast.
I also feel that I should work on my French!
Chu!
It’s so good to hear you’re ‘crazy happy’!
Next time you come for a visit you have to show us your new skills! =D
Beijos!
Or maybe when you come here!!!
OK! I have to tell you something! There are a couple of secret ingredients in the filling… Beside apple slices, tehre are sugar & cinnamon, nuts, raisins, dried apricots, and some bread crumbs (to keep things dry!). Simple, easy and tasteful!
Ha this is for the Baklavapple!!
AHHH!! wish i was you! i wanna go to pastry school too!