so culinary school...

its been fun and ive learned alot. but one thing i definitely learned is that im friggen tired and tend to forget to photograph my goodies. right now im doing breads so its not that pretty, but next time... ill try and remember =]

so ive done a couple cakes and forgot to post them. SO here they are =]

This is the cake i made for ex sd charger cheerleader for her bday. fondant work and black satin ribbon.


This is a birthday cake i made for my friend Chris - tine. Shes a dolphins fan. I hand painted the dolphin on fondant with color gel. the rest of the cake is covered with white chocolate buttercream

and thats all for now. If youre interested in the crap i've been making and did not take photos of i can give you a list. otherwise i will not bore you =]

Culinary School

as some of you may or may not know, i am currently attending culinary school for a degree in baking and patisserie. I decided a while back that i wanted to hone what skill i have acquired and learn the ins and outs too all that is baking and pastry making. I'm currently in my second class at school, but my first class in the kitchen. every week i will be posting photos of my weeks worth of baked deliciousness. If you guys wants some, let me know i'll get them to you.

These are in chronological order:

Chocolate chip macademia nut - 24 cookies

Peanut Butter - 24 cookies

Spritz - 22 cookies, these are whats left

close up of spritz cookie

another close up - they were piped

and another

fruit tart with pastry cream yummy!

side view of the fruit tart

OK! so all of these were made from scratch and with love! jk. not so much love as much as pressure, stress, and sweat.

I hope you enjoyed this! next week, week 2 posts! =]

new cake... finally

this cake was for one of my besties Kurt's mom's birthday. Its a dense vanilla cake with swiss vanilla buttercream - best frosting ever. on top i made fondat/gumpaste roses, lilies, and stephotis(?) they're in the style of antique roses. enjoy!

tommy's ice cream cake

I made this out of cookies and cream ice cream. the character is kakashi from naruto my little brothers favorite character. i made him out of fondant =]

cake filled weekend =]

Another Mother's Day cake. 3 different sized gifts =]

My friend's birthday cake =) he's in lighting and this is a C47 - better known as a clothes pin. Only the film ppl knew what it was.

East Lion Mother's Day

This is a shoe cake i made as a mother's day gift to East Lion - a shoe company. Their subbrands are shoes like Qupid and Splash. I was asked to make this cake monday, for friday morning and it was BY FAR the most difficult cake i've made. Sorry about the poor picture quality but Jason's camera died so i had to take it on my blackberry.



He's a fat lion from all the cake!

cakes =]

I made this cake today for my friend Joe. He owns the best shabu shabu place in the WORLD. this is white cake.
This cake i made today as well. its for my old boss/good friend Jan. its tiny (6inches).

This is the last cake i made for my last cake decorating class. Jason made the green and covered the cake, but i decorated =] this white cake/vanilla buttercream is delicious.


i hope you enjoyed this! =]

New Cake

Heres a cake i made for my friend seanpaul. Chef is his favorite =] and i didnt have time to make a fondant hat and let it dry and all that hoopla.

a couple more cakes to come. =]

First non-traditional cake

cake next to the real thing. i found an older model online.. haha.
I made this cake for my roommate's birthday. He's a DJ so his gf requested a turntable. i googled it and this is what i made. its not as clean as i would have liked but i think for my first try, it turned out pretty well. i also didnt have a proper board to put the cake on, so its on a cheapy aluminum foil tray that i had. i hope it was tasty - chocolate chip yellow cake.

first entry part 2 - i forgot one

This is the Ariel cake I made for one of my best friends Jennifer's birthday. i free handed and again used the pointillism thing. You can't really tell, but the right side of Ariel's hair was falling off the cake after a rough car ride from Chino to San Diego.

first entry - part 2: Cakes so far

First cake I made after my first day in the Wilton Cake decorating course. we used the buttercream frosting and learned the pointillism type technique with the star tip. My instructor let me do what ever, so i free handed this penguin =]
Second cake. We learned borders and how to make the frosting clowns. i have a hard time getting rid of all my cakes so i then to make them for the nearest occasion. This was a strawberry cake for my good friend Dennis's birthday. (duh)
I made this cake for Jason's little brother's birthday. the character is a guy named 'rock lee' from naruto. I'm not really a fan and neither is Jason's brother, but we're convinced he looks JUST like him. this is in the same style as the other cake, buttercream, freehand, and star tip.
This is Jason's brother. TELL ME he doesnt look like Rock Lee. Even his aunt said, hey the cake looks just like Michael! she doesn't know the joke.
For this cake, we were learning buttercream frosting roses. i made paulina eat the whole thing. the design is similar/very much like a wilton design.
I made this to try and practice piping. it was red velvet and delicious.
for my grandma's bday(duh). I used a basic buttercream frosting and those are royal icing violets and chrysanthemums. I also used a rope border.
this was our course 2 finale cake. again, buttercream, basket weave frosting, rope border, royal icing flowers - chrysanthemums, violets, daisies, daffodils, apple blossoms, and something else i forget.
but this cake was too happy, so we made it emo. haha.
This is my first fondant cake. It was a 3 tiered lemon rasberry cake. the design happened as a happy accident because i didnt know where i was going when i originally started. Paulina ate 1/3 of it and it molded. haha... it was too big.
This is my easter cake up close. I made it for jason's second family. there are royal icing flowers, fondant decorations, and fondant flowers and animals.
this is the overall view.

I hope you enjoyed this. more to come!

first entry - part 1

This is my first entry. This blog will be a place where I can post photos of cakes I've made thus creating a photo journal of my progress and an online portfolio.


so if you want to help me practice and need a cake. contact me!! if i love you enough, i'll do it for free! haha.

enjoy!

part 2 will consist of photos.

btw, i will be attending culinary school in august.