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Working in pastry has made me very attentive to details of EVERYTHING! From desserts to even everyday life things. In school, they have a class for bakers called, "Individual Pastry Productions". That basically means, everything must be perfect, exact and consistent. A lot of people in my class and in the previous classes said that the class was "stressful" or that they "hated it". For me it was totally different. I loved that class because it showed me exactly of what I was capable of and how consistent I actually was. The class definitely helped me gain a lot of confidence in my self. 



Chocolate mousse, airbrushed with chocolate, decorated with tempered chocolate, candied nuts and a gold leaf. Airbrushing chocolate with more chocolate is amazing! 


Pate a choux: Filled with pastry cream, glazed with caramel fondant and finished with whip cream, chocolate pearls and gold leaves.


More Pate a choux glazed with fondants



Mousses glazed or airbrushed and all have inserts. My dessert(Purple one) is a blueberry mousse with a lemon curd insert topped with whip cream, glazed blueberries and candied lemon.


Strawberry and Raspberry marshmallows


Left: Chocolate mousse, caramel and topped with brownies, marshmallows, powdered sugar and chocolate decoration
Right: Chocolate mousse, brownie, whip cream and finished with chocolate crumble and chocolate decoration


Raspberry financiers


Rice pudding, lemon curd, blueberry filling finished with glazed blueberries and white chocolate decorations.


Panna cotta, caramel topped with meringue


Raspberry macaroons


Rapberry, Lemon, Orange, Lime and Chocolate Macaroon.


Madelines


Verrines are desserts in jars. 
Left: Panna cotta, strawberry filling topped with strawberries, white chocolate sticks and strawberry marshmallows
Right: Rice pudding, lemon curd finished with raspberries and strawberry marshmallows


Mini cakes: Pistachio cake topped with raspberries and chocolate decorations, Airbrushed chocolate mousse, Opera cake, Chocolate Mouse topped with chocolate decoration and whip cream and Lemon curd bar finished with white chocolate and meringue


Apricot, frangipane(Almond filling) tart finished with candied almonds, powdered sugar, white chocolate decoration and a candied apricot slice.


Whipped white chocolate ganache on a breton dough tart finished with raspberries, powdered sugar and a white chocolate decoration.


Whipped white chocolate ganache on a breton dough tart finished with raspberries and a white chocolate decoration.


Chocolate, caramel tart finished with chocolate glaze, peanuts and chocolate decoration. This one taste like a snickers bar! 


Lemon tart finished with glazed strawberries and toasted pistachios


Traditional opera cakes finished with chocolate decoration, chocolate macaroons, and gold leaves


Lemon meringue tart finished with glazed blueberries.


Blueberry mousse with a lemon curd insert topped with whip cream, glazed blueberries and candied lemon.



Chocolate Souffle

Cupcakes, Cakes, Icing, Marzipan & Glaze!

This post is to show my progression in my pastry career and to show my growth. These are just a few of the cakes that I have created throughout my life, from the age of 15 to now. I am now 19 turning 20 by the way(: 

When I was younger, I only wanted to bake cupcakes and own a bakery only selling cupcakes. I would always tell people that making bread was "too hard" and as for other pastries I honestly didn't know about them. Now I want to make everything that I eat. I rarely eat store bought or processed desserts or foods because it is really bad for you and I love to bake or cook my own products. From cakes, pies, jams, peanut butters, extracts, pizza dough, breads and a lot more! With all that being said, my future business plans have drastically changed from just wanting to specialize in cupcakes. What is my business plan you ask? Well, I can't tell you because I am keeping it under wraps until it is perfect and then I will be sure to share it with the world!


My very first cupcakes I made in 2011



Lemon Meringue cupcakes I made in highschool


















My first sheet cake I made for my brother


Big improvement from my very first cupcakes!



BreadCrumbs!

In my last post, I mentioned that I bake bread as well as desserts. In this post, I would like to show you a few of my most recent bread products. In the ;ast post I also mentioned that I applied to a few scholarships for school. Well last year I applied to a scholarship given by the CIA called, "M.F.K. Fisher Scholarship." M.F.K. Fisher was an American food writer. She wrote twenty-seven books in her 83 year lifetime. Her books are about food literature, travel and memoir. She believed that eating well was just one of the "arts" of life and explored this in her writing. The scholarship required an essay on an important food memory to you. So I wrote the paper, and then it hit me. "What will make me stand out from all the other people that apply for this scholarship?" At that moment I created a blog just for the scholarship. I won that scholarship! I have included the link to the blog below:


Now prepare to feast your eyes!