Flour-less chocolate cake

So if you are wondering why the cake looks like crap......well because it is flourless cake and has the consistency of a custard instead of an actual firm cake. Anyway I am ready for a fun filled weekend! Hy comes home tonight!!

Group plate ups

Had two group plate ups today and a wine lecture. We tried 5 different dessert wines and did pairings with cheese and fruit and the likes. Was great.

We did phyllo and puff pastry plate ups today.

The puff pastry has a mango mousse on the inside and the phyllo has a caramelized pineapple filling.

More later, I dont really feel like blogging......only like sleeping.

Chocolate......didnt you know more was coming?

So today in class plate up we did Lava Cakes, and instead of doing a usual one-I decided that mine would have tempered chocolate coming out of the center. And instead of regular tempered chocolate, I would first lay it out on some acetate. The acetate had the star design and when properly tempered and layed, it transfers. I filled my cake with it and served it right out of the oven, oozing stars and all.

Hyrum...

... is still out of town.

Sad. Sad. Sad.

I miss you lover.

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).