Dessert-o-licious

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, there is no need to be intimidated. Baking is all science and math, and like [...]

    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 basic instructions on the structure that our pieces needed to have. The first class, we [...]

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 chocolate, which can sadly, lead to mold growing in the filling. We started with dipped [...]

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, considering that I am one of the world’s largest chocoholics. When I was about twelve [...]

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 be deceiving…I had no idea what I was about to get myself into.

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 upstairs where we entered a room with a long white runway which ran the length [...]

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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 [...]

Our our third day we visited Montmartre and walked by the famous Boulangerie there. After coming back to the center of town we decided to walk the Champs Elysees and wound up at a delicious chocolate shop called Le et Gourmet Chocolats on Avenue Franklin D Roosevelt. This shop had such wonderful looking chocolates. Everything [...]

On our second day in Paris we decided to take a trip to Versailles, but of course had to stop to get food for the one hour train ride and we decided to go to La Boulangerie de papa in the Latin quarter for some Beignets. The one I got was filled with raspberry jam, [...]