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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef: Time is flying by!
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef. A leap of faith to a new career. Thursday, October 28, 2010. Time is flying by! Okay, so I can't believe it has been a few weeks since I posted. I have so much to catch up on! Right now I am taking a break from my cake project presentation for my pastry class. It is almost done. Design is finished, requisition is complete, just need to finish writing the story and put it all together. Whew! Can't wait to get started on that cake! I was hired as a cake decorator at a b...
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef: January 2010
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef. A leap of faith to a new career. Sunday, January 10, 2010. Beginning of the year baking. So I started off the year with a bag full of lemons from my Dad's lemon tree. I tried to figure out something to do with them. I found a gluten free version of lemon bars that sounded so good. I had a girls party to go to so I thought I would try to make them for that. Well, the second batch didn't set up as well and at the girls party we ended up just scooping it out of the pan!
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef: Chocolate dough, 3 weeks, and 3am
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef. A leap of faith to a new career. Friday, October 15, 2010. Chocolate dough, 3 weeks, and 3am. So, I realize it has been 3 weeks since my last post. Same amount of time I have had since a day off from work or school. Things have been a bit crazy. I did take a day off last week and had a scheduled day off as well. Two days off in a row! So, the biggest news I think, is that I got my cake assignment for my class. A colorful butterfly cake. I am so excited! It is always n...
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef: December 2009
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef. A leap of faith to a new career. Tuesday, December 29, 2009. Well, since school has been out it seems like everything has been a blur. I made cookies for three days, wrapped presents, the holidays were here, then I got sick. Blah. haha But I am feeling better and thought I would post my cookies. I spent one whole day just making sugar dough, cutting cookies, and baking them. I made 6 dozen! Thanks to these tips from my hand dandy Cookie Craft books! How decorating coo...
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef: It's been a month????
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef. A leap of faith to a new career. Monday, November 29, 2010. It's been a month? Where has the time gone? A lot has gone on since my last post. I have learned to table temper chocolate, how to use templates to cut chocolate for sculpture, how to make chocolate truffles, the use of power tools, started a new project in sculpture, made rolls successfully at home for Thanksgiving and started a new job. But for the first time, not bad. Lol So, it ended up going into a dish ...
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef: May 2010
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef. A leap of faith to a new career. Thursday, May 20, 2010. Honor's Week, Sorbet, and Frostings! Okay, so Honor's week wasn't so bad. I learned a ton and it was nice to be able to do desserts in mass quantities and learn how to make everything uniform and look great on serving platters. The day before the event we had our regular lab. At the beginning of class, Chef had a tray of really tiny cupcakes. Well, the problem was, they weren't supposed to be tiny! I was a bit f...
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef: September 2010
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef. A leap of faith to a new career. Thursday, September 23, 2010. Gluten Free, Egg Free, Dairy Free Vanilla Cupcakes. The batter also didn't make very much. The recipe said it would make 16 cupcakes but they must have meant MINI cupcakes because I got a whole 6 cupcakes! But since I am the only one around that will eat the GF, it is better there are less. So, next time I will try a couple different things. I hope to have my own recipe in the end! This semester I am takin...
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef: April 2010
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef. A leap of faith to a new career. Monday, April 19, 2010. Last week's baking lab was a lot of fun. I had a wonderful partner and we got to make some awesome stuff! We made pistachio baklava and almond macaroons. I had never made either. I was so excited to make both, but especially the macaroons. I keep seeing these darn macaroons on baking blogs everywhere! I HAD to learn how to make them! Here is a picture of the pistachio baklava:. Thursday, April 1, 2010. Okay, so ...
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef: March 2010
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A Corporate Girl Turned Pastry Chef. A leap of faith to a new career. Friday, March 19, 2010. HOT Damn hot. Hot and toasty! Just add oven. WHAT? Yeah, the hottest day of the year so far just HAPPENED to be the day of my baking lab. And I thought the bakery was hot days during last semester. Nothing compared to Tuesday's lab. Ick. The cool thing was that everyone moved to the other kitchen so we pretty much had the bakery to ourselves for over an hour. Definitely a better choice. In the end, they looked g...