4/16/19 April Escoffier Dinner

4/16/19 April Escoffier Dinner
Video: https://animoto.com/play/dBug70IIt6uSqT7XzNo07A

Amuse Bouche

Bread Service

Bread Tray

Premier Plat

Deuxieme Plat

Dessert

4/10/19 Skills USA Competition

4/10/19 Skills USA Competition
What an exciting day! Five students from the Baking and Pastry program won the 5 places in the Commercial Baking Competition! Video of our competition:   https://animoto.com/play/rZpyO7DLye40mODE27KzBg

The Fab Five

Sheila, Sue, Nina, Ayanna, and Heidi

4/8/19 Lemon Curd and Cream Cheese Braid

4/8/19 Lemon Curd and Cream Cheese Braid

The ease of purchased Lemon Curd

Caught in a bind and need a quick fix? Purchase lemon curd. It is located in the jelly section of your grocery store. Whip 1 1/2 cups of whipping cream to barely stiff peaks. Fold in one jar of lemon curd, Voila, Lemon Mousse!!

For Prayer Breakfast, I prepared a Cream Cheese Braid with Lemon Curd using a jar rather than homemade..

3/28/19 Bridge Club Lunch

3/28/19 Bridge Club Lunch

It is exciting to try out new recipes on the bridge club. For this bridge club luncheon, I served Tomato, Sausage, and Spinach Quiche with salad and fresh fruit. For dessert, Chocolate Mousse Bombes.

3/26/19 March Escoffier Dinner

3/26/19 March Escoffier Dinner

The Baking and Pastry students prepared the dessert: Coffee and Cake
Video:  https://animoto.com/play/ik3mp78MypuNANREeQ55AA

3/25/19 Strawberry Cake for Prayer Breakfast

3/25/19 Strawberry Cake for Prayer Breakfast

3/18/19 French Apple Tart

3/18/19 French Apple Tart
A Mary Berry recipe for this wonderful tart was a fave for Prayer Breakfast.

3/4/19 Cream Cheese Danish

3/4/19 Cream Cheese Danish
Cream Cheese Danish for Prayer Breakfast in a different shape.

2/26/19 February Escoffier Dinner

 2/26/19 February Escoffier Dinner
Video: https://animoto.com/play/0Pi7DrmTS6zgBN2IuTpJnQ

Our Menu

Dessert from Baking and Pastry

2/23/19 I'm Into Pain

2/23/19  Pain au Chocolat
A favorite for prayer breakfast.

Need to work on uniformity in serving

Love the layering of laminated dough

So pretty!!

2/19/19 Piping Practice

2/19/19 Piping Practice

Wave

Wave and rope

Wave, scroll, rope

2/18/19 Monkey Bread

2/18/19 Monkey Bread

A favorite for Prayer Breakfast, Monkey Bread fits the bill for a small gooey bite of sweetness. Used the last of my fall pecans. So sad...

2/12/19 Iced and Filled Cake with Icing Roses

2/12/19 Iced and Filled Cake with Icing Roses
During class today, our assignment is to iced and filled a cake and then decorate with roses make from Italian buttercream. It was a rather warm day and our buttercream was not cooperative!

Mise en Place

Buttercream Prep 

Buttercream Prep

Cake prepped

Rose Practice but buttercream to messy

Decor Prep

Crumb Cake on Cake but project abandoned 

2/11/19 Gum Paste Roses

2/11/19 Gum Paste Roses

Practice molding gum paste roses. Not there yet.

2/11/19 Cream Cheese Danish

2/11/19 Cream Cheese Danish
For Prayer Breakfast, prepared tasty and beautiful Cream Cheese Danish. A laminated dough cut into strips and twisted and formed into a bun. The center was pressed down and filled with sweetened cream cheese.

2/5/19 Piping and Shaping Gum Paste

2/5/19 Piping and Shaping Gum Paste

Cake Decorating is progressing into decor for the cake.

2/4/19 Pain au Chocolat

2/4/19 Pain au Chocolat

Prayer Breakfast gets a special treat today. Chocolate Croissants. The buttery, flaky, chocolatey goodness: Oh my!!

1/31/19 Chinese New Year

1/31/19 Chinese New Year

Chef Clarkson of the CCC Culinary School is the featured chef for a Chinese New Year's Dinner at Turner Street Market. I volunteered to help with food prep. We made Chinese Steamed Buns for the dinner. The dinner was sold out and was a success. A wonderful to welcome the Year of the Pig!!

Resting Dough

Kneading Dough

Shaped Bun with Green Onions