10/3/18 Opera Torte

10/3/18 Opera Torte
An amazing class today! We prepared Opera Tortes. The different components tasks were divided among the students. I prepared Ganache and Coffee Simple Syrup. Others prepared Jaconde and Coffee Pastry Cream.

Video:
 https://animoto.com/play/PhCdO1OKkUMFntWq9bEylgera

10/1/18 Cream Puffs

10/1/18 Cream Puffs

Our class prepared Cream Puffs today. They were wonderful. The components for this confection were Choux Pastry, Diplomat Cream, and Hard Caramel Sauce.

Choux:

Preparing the Choux

Heating the Choux Mixture

Heidi fills piping bag with Choux dough

Chef demos Diplomat Cream

Begin Caramel

Color darkens

 Darker Color

Completed Caramel. Use quickly!

9/29/18 Beer, Bubbles, and BBQ

9/29/18 Beer, Bubbles, and BBQ

Chef Garnett sets up for the Beer, Bubbles, and BBQ

Beaufort Wine and Food is a fundraising group benefiting local charities and causes. They have pledged $100,000 for the new culinary school and these funds will help fit out our new facility. Occasionally, they will ask for volunteers to help stage various event.  I volunteered to help and went early in the morning to assist with set up for the day. It was a pleasure to work with the volunteers from this group. $15,000 was raised and donated to the Carteret County Public Schools Foundation to benefit teachers and students misplaced from Hurricane Florence.

Before Set Up

Now that's a Grill for BBQ

9/24 - 9/27/18 Culinary Serves CCC Faculty

9/24 - 9/27/18 Culinary Serves CCC Faculty

Hurricane Florence devastated our county and we were out of school for 2 weeks. While the faculty was cleaning and reprogramming, the Culinary School treated them to lunch each day!!
Video: https://animoto.com/play/YMszhDG3wxFOGyH6Ghd2dA 

Chefs and Nina

Clarissa and Sue

Sheila and Chef

9/24/18 Prayer Breakfast Orange Twists

9/24/18 Prayer Breakfast. Trying a new recipe for Prayer group. These are Orange Twists. They were just Okay.  The twist came untwisted for the most part, but the flavor was nice.

Rising Orange Twists

Final Product

ast Orange Twists

9/9/18 First Piping Assignment

9/9/18 First Piping Assignment
The first attempt at our piping assignment was a bit rough but, a beginning.

The Gel

First Piping

9/5/18 Sacher Torte

9/5/18 Sacher Torte for Thursday Culinary Lunch

During class Team 1 completed our Sacher Tortes for Lunch Service tomorrow!! Team 2 begins Spanish Vanilla Cake.

Video: https://animoto.com/play/2y8A3GW6Ton0sgIGwQ1hLA

8/29/18 European Cakes Tres Leche and Sacher Torte

8/29/18 European Cakes Tres Leche and Sacher Torte

Our class completed Tres Leche Cake and began components for Sacher Torte in class today.
Video: https://animoto.com/play/WxzJp7Ex0F1xZH150TnYoA

Nina Begins Scaling for Tres Leche Cake

8/27/18 Petit Fours Class

Brit Makes Truffles

8/27/18 Petit Fours Class

During Petit Fours Class, we received our first assignment to practice piping. The class prepared gel to pipe on a template. We also practiced making parchment paper piping bags.

For the rest of class we practiced making Truffles. Video of the Day: https://animoto.com/play/Y6nplco1doV8foKEyxQRPw 

Class Making Piping Bags

8/27/28 Morning Buns

8/27/28 Morning Buns for Prayer breakfast

A repeat of one of the faves for my Prayer Breakfast group. They love Morning Buns and so do I. From Cook's Illustrated, this laminated dough is made using the blitz method,

8/22/18 Basic Sponge

8/22/18 European Cakes and Tortes

To open our Cakes and Tortes class, we begin with a basic sponge cake. We employ a Warm Foaming Method for this cake. Notice the sponge like appearance of this cake.

Interior of Sponge Cake

Video
https://animoto.com/play/dDE8lFt4R5rw0JslOTgsvA

8/20/18 Back to School

8/20/18 It's Back to School Day
 This semester at CCC I am taking Petit Fours and Pastries and European Cakes and Tortes
My first class in Petit Fours and Pastries we prepared Key Lime Mignardise.  This was an easy recipe to follow without difficult techniques. But, the slicing of the squares was exacting to produce an acceptable mignardise.

Video

https://animoto.com/play/vDgI6lBLF8xlFXq7kzKF9g

2018 Summer Bakes

2018 Summer Bakes

While out of the classroom this summer, I haven't baked much. But see the bakes of the summer:

Sweet Potato Rolls for a Bereavement Dinner  6/2

Sticky Buns for Prayer Breakfast 6/4

Sticky Buns

Chocolate Croissants 6/25

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Sweet Potato Rolls for Bereavement Dinner 6/28

Red Velvet Ice Cream Cake from the cover of Southern Living 6/28

Strawberry Filled Kolaches 7/8 Prayer Breakfast

Swedish Tea Ring  7/15

Swedish Tea Ring

One Cinnamon Bun 7/30

Peach Sour Cream Coffee Cake 8/6 Prayer Breakfast

 

5/20/18 Chocolate Croissants

5/20/28 Time for a challenge and to practice skills. Laminated doughs can be difficult but so worth the effort for the end result. Using a recipe from our Baking textbook, I prepared the dough and followed the techniques learn in Artisan Breads class. The Monday Morning Prayer group loved these pastries.

The Dough ready to roll and cut and proof overnight

5/21/18 Service

Oh!! Look at the lovely layers

Oozing with chocolate 

Small and Large sizes