palms

voila~ yum yum in my tummy

last day of puff pastry

whew.. puff pastry..

so it was our last day to make another batch of goodies from puff dough


(what we demoed and ate after 3 hrs of lecture)






(sniffing the good stuff.. )


(and my favorite one~ almond cream and apricot filling)

dear butter and dough

(rolling pin ready! flour ready!..)

hello there you. dough and butter. you give me so much pain when i have to roll you in 6 folds.. the first night, i suffered from a charley horse and never knew baking could give me such pain :P but i guess that's just the reality of the industry. a lot of physical labor but a lot of JOY(!!) at the end of it. but i do love you.. your yummy layers are just so endearing to my taste buds and my tummy. i just wish you werent so hard to make..^^;

come get em

about to devour a plateful of CAKE after lecture~~
(supposedly "fruit cake" in french is just CAKE!! i never knew)



and a good cup of tea comes with it as well^^

chocolate & raspberry tart with nougatine

the most complicated tart we ever had to make yet.

we baked everything from the chocolate tart to the chocolate nougatine deco on top~



the ingredients that goes into this tart is just exquisite. so much dark chocolate and raspberry brandy~ yumm yumm yummmm...




but just thinking about the process of baking this tart already makes me exhausted..^^;

my body aches by the end of the week and i am waking from charley horse at night..-.- (rolling dough is no joke! im serious...) i think school and work is wearing me out a bit.. and the heat does not help and carrying these delicate desserts home is not fun in the hot blaring sun~~ ^^;... BUT at the end of the week when i sit down and organize my notes and photos from school, i just can't help but smile at all the pastry goodies ive baked.. :)