When making candies or decorations from chocolate – and I mean real chocolate, not candy wafers bought at a craft shop – the only way to achieve a shiny, snappy finish is by tempering. Professionals do it by smearing and … Continue reading
When in doubt…chocolate. Although chocolate on Valentine’s Day is a bit predictable, sometime predictability can be a good thing. Usually on Valentine’s Day, I try to think out-of-the-box and spend weeks coming up with the perfect Valentine’s Day dessert for … Continue reading
I find that many people are intimidated by baking because they’ve always been told that they need to be very careful to measure everything exactly or their cake, pastry, icing, etc will not turn out correctly. While this is true, … Continue reading
After completing our lessons on molded, filled, and dipped chocolates it was time to move onto the conclusion of our chocolate module by building out our chocolate showpieces. We were broken out into teams of two and given … Continue reading
Now that we had our feet wet a bit we moved onto filled and dipped chocolates. Whether filling or dipping, it is important to make sure that the chocolate shell is even or you make a stress point in the … Continue reading
Mod 4 was here, signaling our ¾ mark in the program, we only had 25 more lessons in the classroom and then we were off to our externships. I had been looking forward to this mod from the very beginning, … Continue reading
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
This past week I had the privilege of volunteering at the Chocolate Fashion Event which kicked off the 13th annual New York City Chocolate Show. The event was fantastic! When we arrived at the event space we were immediately shuttled … Continue reading
Check out this great video from Cybrtrayd, a seller of a large varieties of Chocolate Candy Molds, Cookie Cutters, Baking Supplies, Pizza making supplies and much more! … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading