Week 2 of Cakes!

7 More Weeks and I will have survived completed my first year of college!  Not only that, I will be going on externship! Yes, I'm very excited!  This week dragged on for some reason. Nevertheless, it was a very busy week for me running errands, classes, and sleep.  This was my second week in Basic and Classical Cakes, and so much was done.  Between practicing for the practical in 4 weeks and making cakes, it's been a long and hectic week.  I'll just pick up from my last post.

Day 5: 

We made Cheesecakes (3 words: Oh. So. Delicious.) which we ended up giving to the Apple Pie Bakery Cafe to sell. We also made the oh so infamous Practical Buttercream Cake. It's been 6 weeks since I've been in a bakeshop so it didn't come out too great.

Piping on Day 5

Day 6:

My favorite day this week!  We made Carrot Cake and little marzipan carrots to decorate them.  We even got to temper chocolate using the tabling method to make our chocolate decors for the Practical Cake.

Here are some snapshots of my Carrot Cake

Tempering Chocolate & Decors

Day 7:

Basically, we just made a Chocolate Sponge Cake and the shells for our eclairs.

Day 8:

No pictures. However we finished off our eclairs, made an Apple Strip, and a Hi-Ratio Chocolate Cake, which chef told us was just like buying a boxed cake mix.

Day 9:

Pretty interesting day.  Half the class made Chocolate Mousse Cake and the other half made a Modern and a Old-Fashioned Charlotte Russe cakes (For all those ladies who shop at the store with the same name...yes, it was quite a shock for me too XD)  I made the Chocolate Mousse Cake. Yum!  We will be finishing it off with a hard ganache on Tuesday.

We also set in our Black Forest Cake.  We piped chocolate buttercream rings and filled in the spaces with a cherry filling which we made as well.  These cakes will be finished on Tuesday as well. :)

Well that's all for this week!  There will surely be more to come next week :) As for now, I will enjoy my weekend and I wish for you to do the same!  By the way, if you're on tumblr, follow me:

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<3 Debbie