Almond Cake Petit Fours

Wednesday in class we made Almond Petit Fours, kind of like last week only with almond cake and this time no marzipan or dipped in chocolate. This time in between each layers I put apricot jam preserves just to try something new from last week. Almond cake was really hard to work with; it stuck to everything making the circles not as clean as I would like them to be.  While the cakes chilled we melted white chocolate, and added some coloring, I of course chose red and blue because.....Go team U.S.A.! Anyways, after that we cut those into circles and placed them on top of the cakes, and added a chocolate design. Next time I would like to grease my cookie cutters more, to make them cleaner, and make my chocolate and designs more consistent. Other than that I really like these petit fours!

Pound Cake Petit Fours

On February 12th we made Pound Cake Petit Fours. We made the pound cakes a few weeks back and we kept them frozen. As we heated up our strawberry jam perseveres so that it would spread easily, we cut our cake into three layers. Then in between each layer we spread on the jam. Rolled out some marzipan, spread some jam on that and flipped our cake onto it and back over, creating a marzipan layer on top. After that we cut the cake into various shapes, then dipping them and covering them entirety in chocolate, once dried we applied decorations. Thank goodness, all those years of choir have paid off with my beautiful treble clefs that are considered a wonderful chocolate design to my teacher.

Piping Practice- Week 3

--> In this class we practiced more piping techniques the top left picture technique, I was having troubles with but this is my last one, showing that I am getting the hang of it. It looks really pretty around an entire tier of a cake. The top right picture are designs you usually see on wedding cakes, I just need to master my shapes and the movement of them. And the bottom picture is the rose covered tier, which are some of my favorites and look really elegant.

Piping Practice- Week 2

--> This was our second class in my advance wedding cake class; we practiced different piping skills that you would typically see on wedding cakes. As you can see I need work on making each line matching the one before. But I have the dropping method down!