Student Diary: Advanced Pastry Arts, Day 11
My organic Nouveau bowl
This one was simple, but beautiful. Chef had told us to pour our sugar in a spiral, then fill in the open space inside the spiral with an opposing color, but I wanted an organic look. Once the sugar was firm enough, I turned the sugar onto a steel bowl sprayed with nonstick spray. Once it was set a little more ... well, it stuck to the bowl. I didn't spray my bowl enough. I put the bowl in the oven on a silpat for a few minutes, then pried my sugar bowl off the steel bowl and gently formed the side of the bowl. There you have it! You can fill it with blown sugar objects.
Blown sugar object. My genius classmate Marcus, who did the amazing wedding cake a couple of months back, figured out a way to build air pumps, so he made one for each of us to have!
Here, one of my teammate shoots the bubble. Her bowl is in front of her.
I like her bowl, too. I convinced her to rim it with the copper sugar, and I think it turned out well.
The end of the class is coming up, sadly. We're doing one last sugar project tonight, then starting our final project, which will be another wedding cake. I still need to design it. Wish me luck!
Still on tap: my Menu 4 Hope prize arrives from England, "arroz caldo" made healthy (pearl barley chicken congee), what I ate in Vegas--a phone photo blog, my first moussaka!, and still needing to be done--a marzipan rose how-to for Lewis (sorry it's taking so long).
This one was simple, but beautiful. Chef had told us to pour our sugar in a spiral, then fill in the open space inside the spiral with an opposing color, but I wanted an organic look. Once the sugar was firm enough, I turned the sugar onto a steel bowl sprayed with nonstick spray. Once it was set a little more ... well, it stuck to the bowl. I didn't spray my bowl enough. I put the bowl in the oven on a silpat for a few minutes, then pried my sugar bowl off the steel bowl and gently formed the side of the bowl. There you have it! You can fill it with blown sugar objects.
Blown sugar object. My genius classmate Marcus, who did the amazing wedding cake a couple of months back, figured out a way to build air pumps, so he made one for each of us to have!
Here, one of my teammate shoots the bubble. Her bowl is in front of her.
I like her bowl, too. I convinced her to rim it with the copper sugar, and I think it turned out well.
The end of the class is coming up, sadly. We're doing one last sugar project tonight, then starting our final project, which will be another wedding cake. I still need to design it. Wish me luck!
Still on tap: my Menu 4 Hope prize arrives from England, "arroz caldo" made healthy (pearl barley chicken congee), what I ate in Vegas--a phone photo blog, my first moussaka!, and still needing to be done--a marzipan rose how-to for Lewis (sorry it's taking so long).
Comments
Marvin--unfortunately, I didn't take any photos. It was all pretty ... beige ... but still tasty and worth posting about!
Marye--thank you! It's not as hard as it looks!