Dessert-o-licious

This week is definitely all about eggs! After spending hours in lesson 8 whipping eggs, we finally got to make things out of them in lesson 9. We started out learning all about meringue. I never realized there were 3 types. Ordinary, Swiss and Italian. Also, I’ve always seen recipes call for a pinch of [...]

The official first day of Summer is June 21 and this cupcake seemed like the perfect way to welcome it! I love the use of coconut as sand and the mini-umbrella. So creative! Originally posted on Flickr by be cheery.

Back in December I went to the Grapefruit Gala at the French Culinary Institute and got to meet Jansen Chan who was the chef for the event. Immediately, I fell in love. His warm personality and his delicious food got me straight away. Ever since then, I’ve been meaning to go to the his midtown [...]

Lesson 6 was all about fruit. We got to taste all sorts of different varieties: stone fruits, tropical fruits, melons, citrus, dried, candied, and more. Did you know that candying fruit should be a 30 day process to remove all of the water and replace it with sugar? Each day boil the fruit in a [...]

In order to have a better understanding of pastry, I think it’s important that I taste lots of different pastries all around town! It’s always nice to have a good excuse to eat desserts and as a part of school sometimes my homework is go to the French pastry shops. This week I went to [...]

Pastry school is now in full swing and I’ve got 2 weeks under my belt! In lesson 3 we continued doing lots of math problems and eventually got to make our first recipe using a pot, hard caramel. The caramel was made by mixing some sugar in a pot with a little bit of lemon [...]

I’ve decided to do a mango taste test. It seems like lately every time I go to the grocery store a new variation of mango has arrived, but I’ve never ventured away from the conventional mango. So now it is finally time to take on 2 more. My taste test consists of (shown above from [...]