Loving my baking stuff

Here are more pics from the past couple weeks.  :)

Vanilla Bean Bavarios

 Lemon Mousse Torte with Blackberry

 Me, flat icing the large portion of our sculpted cake - While I have to admit this isn't my favorite cake done, it was my first sculpted cake that I have ever done.  The chef said that we did a good job on it for our first time, I just feel that my work is better than this.  I found out after we finished that this cake was going to be on display for an open house of about 200 people.  The only thing that the chef thinks we could have done to make it better for presentation was to use the steamer to make it all shiny and pretty, but it wasn't available to use when we all finished our cakes.

 A piece cut out to show that it is cake. :)

Newest Baking Adventures

Here are my newest pics of my work.  Some fun stuff here.  :)

Le Fraisier Torte

This one was amazing.  I loved the look and the taste!!!

 Plated Desserts: Cream Puffs filled with Coffee infused Pastry Cream

with Chocolate Coffee Sauce,

pecans and a chocolate twirl

This is a showing of the three that I had a hand in, one being my own, and the other two being a combination of myself and members in my group.

Last Quarter - Week 2

Wow, the time is really flying.  I am enjoying this last quarter, even though it has been very fast paced and there isn't much time for anything else.  Here are some of the things that I have done for week two.  :)

This is a fresh fruit charlotte - it was VERY good.  Everyone loved it. :)

 This is called a Dobos Torte. Very rich torte, but so far was a favorite of several.  :)

 Fondant covering

 Royal icing work - practicing

 Plated desserts - strawberry bavarian with almond lace cookies and a chocolate rum sauce. This was one of the better plated desserts that I have ever made up to this point :)

 Biscotti

 Peanut Butter bread - this was a tester recipe and it turned out pretty good.

 Blackberry coffee cake and apple cinnamon coffee cake.

 Regular Coffee cake.

 Fruited bread pudding

 Bostoc - done wrong, but oh so good, mmmm...

 Blueberry, blackberry, and apple cinnamon muffins

A LOT to catch up on - hope you enjoy the pics

There are a bunch of pics that I need to catch up on.  I hope you enjoy the newest pics of cakes and stuff that I have made.  :)  Some I am happier with than others, lol.

This was for my nephew, Tyler's, birthday. He plays little league and so this was very fitting.

 Baby Shower #1

 I loved making this cake.  This one was for my husband, Josh, who loves golf. :)

 Baby Buggy Cookies from Shower #2

 Josh's uncle takes pics for the Indy 500 every year so I made him this for his birthday.

 Baby Shower #2 - my best friend here in Indy is expecting and the baby's name is going to be JB.  I am so excited for her!!! She loved this cake. :)

 I absolutely LOVE the daisys on this cake.

 This is the production from my bread class final exam.  There is ciabatta, challah, baguette, and croissants.

 I made cupcakes for my bestie to do a food photo shoot for her class.

 First cake done in Advanced Patisserie class this quarter.  I did orange because my daughter LOVES orange, and the reason I put welcome Katy is because she is moving up here in a few days and I am excited to have her finally here.

 I was practicing for a wedding cake that I am going to be doing in October.  She wanted the brown and burnt orange, with ribbon and dots.  The daisies were a surprise, and the surprise is on me, because now she wants them on her wedding cake, lol.

 I was part of a demo at Michaels for a Wilton class and I made and decorated this cake.  I fell in love with the fondant/gumpaste calla lilies. :)

 This was my chocolates class final exam application layout. :)

 Raspberry Ganache Marshmallow Puffs, Chocolate Dipped Pralines, and Turtle Truffles

 Chocolate dipped pralines

 Raspberry ganache marshmallow puffs

 Turtle truffles

 Cupcakes (regular and LARGE) for a birthday party for a beautiful 1 year old boy.

 Grandma Rose's 80th Birthday - Cake #1

 Grandma Rose's cake #2

 This is my first cake from European Cakes and Tortes class this quarter: Sacher Torte

 This one looks a little "busy" in my opinion, but it was for a demo on how to do all those decorations, lol.