December Birthdays

Red Wine, Chocolate, Raspberry Cake

Strawberry Cream Cake

Holiday Pies

Key Lime - Apple

Chocolate Silk - Pumpkin

Plated Desserts

Chocolate Mousse Plate

Poached Pear Gingerbread Cake

Poached Pear Chocolate Lava Cake

Mint Chocolate Bavarian Creme

Creme Caramel

Creme Caramel

Tasting plate. Three different flavors come together on one plate for our Italian themed plated desserts. On the left is coffee toffee gelato with toffee crumbles and chocolate garnish. The middle is moscato sabayon with blueberry sauce and garnished with fresh fruit and tuile cookie. The right is a classic canoli garnished in chocolate.

Banana Caramel and Macadamia Nut Cheesecake

Advanced Breads

Our final project was to create two sandwiches and actually make them for other students to try. My group made a chicken parmesan sandwich on a focaccia load and a BLT with arugula, mustard, on a pretzel bun!

National Sandwich Day 

Chicken Parmesan on Focaccia Loaf

BLT on a Pretzel Bun

Golden Sesame 

Bagels

Traditional Baguette

Multi-grain

Cheddar, Apricot, Walnut Crackers

Sour Dough

Light Rye

Sugar Sculptures

Completely edible and absolutely stunning!

Pastiage Swan

Contemporary Sugar Art  

Under The Sea Theme 

Sugar Roses

Entremet and Petite Gateaux

Entremet is a french word literally meaning "between servings". But for our purposes it is a mousse based dessert with multiple layers, similar to cake. Petite gateaux is also french meaning "little cakes" and is just a smaller sized entremet. Here are my designs from class.

White Chocolate Raspberry

Mudslide 

Tiramisu 

Chocolate Strawberry 

Bamkuchen

Chocolate Banana 

Advanced Cakes

Year two of my college career and my first class was advanced cake decorating! Here are some of my creations:

Praline Torte

Buttercream Wedding Cake

Snoopy Themed Cake

Gold Gift Box Cake 

Floral Cake

Peanut Butter Chocolate Overload

Cupcake Party

Pretty Sugar Candy Roses

 Cupcakes are one of my favorites to decorate, and so cute! Here are some cute cupcake ideas for little kids' parties: roses, Spiderman, and shark fins.

Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman

Shark Fins

Happy Birthdays

 Two dear friends of mine, best way to celebrate is with cake! Chocolate roses or buttercream daisies, both are yummy!

Super Mom

 I participated in a cupcake competition at my school, the theme was mother's day. My team won first place, here are our creations. The wonder woman tiara topper cupcakes contain chocolate cupcakes filled with peanut butter ganache and topped with chocolate fudge icing. The super mom hearts are on top of a praline buttercream and vanilla cupcake filled with toasted almonds and caramel sauce. The last cupcake is a lemon poppy seed cake filled with passion fruit curd and marscapone cream cheese frosting topping.

Assorted Cakes

Pink Gift Box Cake

Lace Cake

Outside of class I would return to the kitchens and make some cakes just for the fun of it. Here are two gift box cakes and a lace cake decorated in fondant, and a pistachio torte covered in buttercream and a rim of toasted, chopped pistachios.

Pistachio Torte

Purple Gift Box Cake