Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Rainbows and Butterflys... Lollipops and Sunshine

So there was a Gay Pride Day parade, on Father's Day no less, we had to make 300 rainbow cupcakes, and 200 rainbow cookies. After spending all day looking at the psychedelicness of all those rainbows started to take a toll on our sanity. We ended up singing every song we could think of that included the words; rainbow, butterfly, lollipop, and sunshine. Including both the movie version of "Somewhere over the rainbow" and the ukulele version.








And of course I had to make some extra for my Gators ... even though we lost. But as always, I'm still a proud Gator!



Friday, June 4, 2010

Its official... My life now revolves around cupcakes!

I just got a job as a baker in a cupcakery! Yes, I could not be more excited. I start bright and early tomorrow morning! And no worries, I will be posting pictures!




On top of that... As you all know I am in culinary school for baking and pastry, but there are a lot of others that are there fro culinary. So there is a competition every quarter called "Battle of the Blades" it is our schools version of Top Chef, but it is directed to the culinary side. In class the other day I was talking to my pastry chef about a cupcake competition, she told me to ask the dean about it. So I went to talk to him about it... His response "Do it," so I did. I went home and made flyers and hung them up around campus. So around Labor day my school will be having its first quarterly Cupcake Challenge! Woot!




This week we had a competition in class where our chef gave each group a picture of a gourmet cake, the group that made their cake look most like the picture won. The cake our group got was a Payard cake, it was pistachio meringue, pistachio mousse and vanilla spongecake. The trick about making this cake was the shape of it. So one of the guys in our group made a mold for us to assemble the cake in. Our hard work payed off because we won.



This is the picture we were given This is the one we made

I think we did pretty good!