Some of the Final Projects - More Coming!
My winter study baking class ended this week, and I'm definitely going to miss spending 4 hours in the bakeshop every afternoon. I could not be more proud of my students and their super impressive final projects though - they were great! The bakeshop even offered them all jobs after watching their progress over the past month.
Our final class was at my house this week. Everyone brought their goodies to share and discuss with the class. Everyone left in a sugar coma. Here's a look, and you'll be seeing them in a lot more detail soon.
First up, Vanessa teaches us how to make petit fours.
I have always loved petit fours—deliciously tender cakes enrobed in elegant fondant and beautifully
decorated (and miniature, which makes them even better)—but have never had the courage to attempt
them myself. So, I decided to give it a shot.
The cake is the determining factor in the success of petit fours, and I consulted several cookbooks for a good sponge cake recipe that would be very moist, or even close to a pound cake consistency (my favorite petit fours of all time are hardly spongy—much more buttery—and I was attempting to match
that texture).
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