a challenging bake day

hmmmm – I said baking was more fun than I expected – and it IS (tho I’m still not sure what effect bringing sugar into my world has had – I was SO tired early last evening, I can only describe it as a “sugar crash” I fear – good news, I ate a sandwich and eventually recovered enough to clean my kitchen.

BUT, I showed up yesterday – excited to have Chef LaSorella subbing for us (of maisonette mousse fame – she used to be the pastry chef there!) – she’s my academic advisor, but I’ve not had a class with her yet. We started by trimming one of the cakes that we made 3 weeks ago – the devils food, as we were going to add layer filling (raspberry mousse – YUM!) and ganache icing.  My cake was grossly undercooked (as were a few others in the small class) even tho I cooked it to the allotted time I was instructed (think creme brûlée problem – DAMNED convection ovens!), so I ended up with a cake with “brownie” like consistency in the middle – impossible to cut into 3 layers, and thus barely made it with 2 layers.

That just kind of kicked off the day, which went awry in so many ways and culminated in my dirty dish tub knocking over my “Sani water bucket” onto the floor when I went to wash that last batch of dishes.

The home-made vanilla ice cream was TO DIE FOR, tho I fear that the raspberry swirls we added after churning may make it a bit too sweet for me -and no pics as that had to be left in the freezer for another combo dessert plate next week.

So, drumroll…. the challenge cake (which still tastes amazing!)!

HA!  I faked you out if you came here from the FB page – this is my friend Renee’s perfect cake – I want to BE Renee when I grow up! (at least my baking self!)

me practicing piping with my “whipped” ganache – should have practice more 🙁

My final product – I picked the one that showed my poor piping skills the least (but it TASTES fabulous – that raspberry mousse is awesome!)

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