Another group plate up

Chef Erica will give our class about two hours and give us 2 basic desserts that we have to plate up. Usually they are simple.

For the first plate up: we made "tulip" cups out of tempered chocolate and filled them with chocolate mousse flavored with whatever we chose, I chose black cassis liqueur. I also made some Almond Meringue cookies ( the heart) and dripped mango coulis all over it. The thin stick is a Tuille cookie, chocolate on top half and vanilla on the bottom.

The second was much more difficult. We had to wrap and toss and 3 layered dessert of mousse and macaroon with UNTEMPERED MILK CHOCOLATE....( touch it for 2 seconds and it melts into a big old puddle in your hand.) Trying to scrape a strip off of the bake of a sheet tray and unroll it while not really touching, cracking, or melting it; pretty freaking crazy. Then you place a big bunch in the top to cover the rest of the cookie and cover it with cocoa powder. Its pretty strange ( another bizarre French dessert).