Lesson 68-69 – Chocolate Ribbon Cake

A chocolate ribbon cake sounds easy enough to create considering we had already been through molded cakes. It is made up of three 6-inch round cake layers of chocolate nut cake, imbibing syrup, mousse, and chocolate plastic. Well, instructions can … Continue reading

Lessons 65- 67 – Separated Egg Sponge, Tiramisu and Symphonie Cake

In the next 3 lessons we tackled the separated egg sponge cake method, in which you whip the egg yolks with ½ the sugar and separately whisk the whites with the other ½ of the sugar. After both have thickened, … Continue reading

Lesson 56 – Petits Fours

We had been warned that this would be one of the toughest classes in the entire curriculum, so I entered lesson 56 with great trepidation. The almond cakes were already baked and filled with raspberry jam and the class was … Continue reading