Sunday, November 23, 2008

The final pictures from my last set of labs

These are fruit that I made out of marzipan and spray painted. 
This is a scene that is also made out of marzipan with the pig also being spray painted.
We had to sculpt ourselves in our culinary uniforms.  It is made out of 
modeling chocolate and rolled fondant.
A passion fruit parfait wrapped in chocolate, topped with caramelized 
bananas and a passion fruit mirror glaze.
Baumkuchen with a yogurt filling.  Each vertical layer is 15 thin layers of cake baked together.
A chocolate raspberry bavarian cake wrapped in chocolate and topped with 
a raspberry mirror glaze.

Monday, November 3, 2008

Advanced Cakes and Classical French Tortes

Lutetia torte, a walnut chiffon genoise cake layered with chocolate ganache and chantilly cream covered in a semi-sweet chocolate coating. It is decorated with chocolate dipped walnuts and a marzipan carnation.
This dome torte is layers of yellow chiffon genoise, marzipan, raspberry preserves, and praline buttercream. I covered it in marzipan, pipped on a boarder, then topped it with a marzipan rose.

This pistachio torte includes yellow genoise, apricot preserves, pistachio buttercream, and a japonise layer (a dried meringue with hazelnuts). It was then topped with a marzipan layer, pistachios, and a marzipan rose.
This is the inside of the roulade torte. A yellow roulade with chocolate mousse, vanilla buttercream, and covered in a milk chocolate coating.
The outside view of the roulade torte.
A hazelnut torte made with no flour. It is layered with hazelnut buttercream, raspberry preserves, and then covered with a milk chocolate coating. It is topped with rosettes, hazelnuts, and a pipped boarder.
The dobos torte is six layers of a thin yellow cake and a chocolate buttercream. The seventh layer of cake is covered in caramel, dipped in chocolate, and placed on top of the torte.