Stepping out...

...to the big world.

May I present my logo:

If you click it, you'll get to my future website.

"You Are Cordially Invited"

Final exams are over. We had to bake and prepare quite a bunch of things - About 10 different categories (including eatable table decorations) and three different variations within some of the categories. A day and a half at our disposal. Here are the results of my efforts:

The "theme" of my table was a fancy tea party.

The menu:

Bread - "50-50" Rolls

Yeast dough (folded) - Swedish Wienerbröd, Cinnamon-Coffee Danish Cluster, Cinnamon Danish

Puff pastry - Jam&Nut filled Combs, Voul-a-Vent with Compote, Fruit of the Season-length

Center Piece - Orange-Chocolate Cake

Choux dough - Paris Brest, Éclairs, Swedish Maria Balls

Petit Fours - Filled Chocolate Cups, Mini Tartlets, Ganash-Marmalade Sweets (Pineapple & Red Wine)

"Cut" cake - Pineapple Upside Down Cake

Desert - Wine Poched Pear Baked in Marzipan Shell

Signs - White Chocolate writing on Dark Chocolate signs

Decorations - Cookie lollipops

Now - Reality!

Final Exams

Today was the written exam. There were questions on how you check quality of flour, how you serve a Wiener Strudel, how much water you need for 1/2 kg flour when you make pastry dough, and so on. And then there was a question on what is regulating the temperature in the cake fridge. Are pastry chefs supposed to fix broken refrigerators by themselves?

Scary

I really enjoy planning. Ideas pop up all the time. Using my imagination to create new products, new flavours, new patterns.

I love to try my ideas. To create something from a string of yarn, to mix ingredients and see it develop to something tasty.

My downfall is the marketing. I know what I need to do and how. But I'm reluctant to do it.

HELP!

February 1st 2010

D day. The day when I re-start reality. When I re-start my efforts to realize my dreams. Dreams that now have fleshed out.

I'm full of energy!

Why?

I have hardly been knitting or crocheting since I started the course. Am I not able to deal with two things at the same time?

Half way

We are now more or less half way through the course. It has been interesting. Not only the baking but getting to know new people and learning how to deal with some of them...

There is another month and a little to "finish it all" before we start apprenticeship and exams...

And then what?