For your entertainment -
me in my school uniform.
Dazzling, isn't it? :)
It kinda looks like I'm wearing a parachute.
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The finale of Intro to Pastry...
NEW YORK CHEESECAKE
Your typical cheesecake recipe - creamy and speckled with tiny flecks of lemon zest, leaving a light twinge of summer on the tongue.
BLUEBERRY PIE
Your favorite - with a handmade crust and beautiful blueberry filling, made from scratch.
MERINGUE NOISETTES
Hazelnut meringue cookies sandwiched around a coffee buttercream...melt-in-your-mouth goodness. Would be delightful if paired with coffee and Baileys.
ECLAAAIIRRRRSSSS (Eclairs)
Those beautiful little ovals of bliss. Gorgeous puffy pastry surrounding a vanilla pastry cream, the dipped in chocolate. Perfect when popped in the freezer and taken out for a quick snack.
CREAM PUFFS
Similar to the eclair because they utilize the same dough, aka as a Pate a Choux. Inside these tasty little pastry sandwiches is hand-whipped vanilla cream along with strawberries. Soooo good!
MY sad LEMON MERINGUE TART
Yes, it's sad. Because it's meringue didn't get whipped enough. So the "peaks" were more like blankets and didn't look as spectacular as they should've when torched. Alas - it tasted AMAZING. With the handmade sugar crust and lemon curd, ya really couldn't go wrong.
PEAR FRANGIPANE
Or, what I like to call, Mollusk Pie (because it has a creepy looking mollusk face). The pears are poached in red wine, sugar, cinnamon and other spices. The cream surrounding it is a rich rum concoction of sweetness. Extremely rich and unlike anything I've ever had.
COOKIES
MORE COOKIES
Sugar cookies, Linzer cookies, Chocolate Chip and Palmiers
My presentation for daily grading. Guess who totally got an 'A'?!
Aaaand drum roll, please! The FINAL presentation! In a matter of hours, I had to make a lemon meringue tart, Linzer cookies AND Cream Puffs! No pressure. While my tart STILL had issues because of my meringue - big thanks to the other students who dropped yolks in the egg whites. (We keep a collective bin of egg whites and we had some real pistols who don't know how to remove a yolk from the white. THANKS for crushing my meringue!) Overall, I got an 'A' in the class and, thanks to all my leftovers, made MANY friends in the process.
Up next...meat fabrication. :( No bueno.
