Lotsa cakes

At the end of our Cake Design class, we had lots of cakes in the freezer. The school will serve some of them at luncheons and other events, but we had way more than they could use, so our chef arranged for us to take some of the cakes to an assisted living facility. We talked to the residents about our program, about cakes and baking, and about what we have been doing in the class. Then we served our cakes. I have to say, I was amazed at those crazy cake-eating ladies! Everybody had at least one piece, some had 2 or 3, and at least one of the ladies tried all 6 cakes that we brought!

So, here are the cakes, starting with a Black Forest Torte:

This is a Kirsch Torte. Usually it would have more confectioner's sugar on top, with a design pressed into it, but we didn't want to choke the ladies with powdered sugar.


We made marzipan carrots to decorate our Carrot Cake:



Our fruit cake is amazing. It's made from a pound cake batter, with dried fruit, not candied fruit.


This is a Chocolate Truffle Cake:



The Buche de Noel didn't fare so well in the freezer. There's a better picture of it on June 21st.

I made a wedding cake!

This was the final project in my Cake Design class. We had 2 class periods to complete the cake. It was so much fun! Mine is covered in rolled fondant, with garrett frills on the top and bottom layers, royal icing string work on the middle layer, and royal icing apple blossoms.

The cake looks ivory-colored in this picture, but it's just the lighting.





I like how this picture makes the cake look enormous!

Confusing

This is a picture of the buttons in the elevator in the building where my school's culinary department is. I hope you can read the labels.



Apparently, the button that says "2" takes you to the fourth floor. The "1" button takes you to the third floor...It makes my brain hurt.