boot camp, avec croissants
I went crazy and signed up for a three-day Baking Boot Camp this weekend. In the past two days I've made:
hamburger buns
pie crust
an apple pie
a devil's food cake
brioche
croissant dough
candied lemon peel
lemon-lavender cookie dough
pastry cream
pâte a choux
chocolate glaze
éclairs
pistachio crème brûlée
caramel ganache
and
linzer cookie dough
I AM DEAD OF SUGAR AND BUTTER. AND THERE'S STILL ONE MORE DAY OF CLASS!
Tomorrow is "Assembly and Garnishing," when we'll make the croissants (a three-day process, is making croissants), blind-bake a tart shell and make a chocolate raspberry tart, bake our lavender-lemon cookies, make frosting for them and garnish them with candied lemon peel, finish our crème brûlée by torching it, bake and assemble the linzer cookies, prepare chocolate buttercream, and cut, fill, and frost the devil's food cake. (The caramel ganache is the cake filling, holy crap.)
In short, I have lots of other things to talk about, like my WIPs and knitting and Star Trek and the Sarek/Amanda headcanon that I owe soixante_quinze, but all I can think about at the moment is a combination of "oof, sugar, never again" and "where are those extra éclairs I must eat one immediately."
If I recover braincells after a nourishing dinner of beet soup NOT accompanied by the brioche I brought home today, I'd like to finish a little ficlet that's been lingering all week. Then I have Sarek/Amanda drunken hijinx to tackle. Wish me luck!
(♥ drunken hijinx involving Vulcans!)
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hamburger buns
pie crust
an apple pie
a devil's food cake
brioche
croissant dough
candied lemon peel
lemon-lavender cookie dough
pastry cream
pâte a choux
chocolate glaze
éclairs
pistachio crème brûlée
caramel ganache
and
linzer cookie dough
I AM DEAD OF SUGAR AND BUTTER. AND THERE'S STILL ONE MORE DAY OF CLASS!
Tomorrow is "Assembly and Garnishing," when we'll make the croissants (a three-day process, is making croissants), blind-bake a tart shell and make a chocolate raspberry tart, bake our lavender-lemon cookies, make frosting for them and garnish them with candied lemon peel, finish our crème brûlée by torching it, bake and assemble the linzer cookies, prepare chocolate buttercream, and cut, fill, and frost the devil's food cake. (The caramel ganache is the cake filling, holy crap.)
In short, I have lots of other things to talk about, like my WIPs and knitting and Star Trek and the Sarek/Amanda headcanon that I owe soixante_quinze, but all I can think about at the moment is a combination of "oof, sugar, never again" and "where are those extra éclairs I must eat one immediately."
If I recover braincells after a nourishing dinner of beet soup NOT accompanied by the brioche I brought home today, I'd like to finish a little ficlet that's been lingering all week. Then I have Sarek/Amanda drunken hijinx to tackle. Wish me luck!
(♥ drunken hijinx involving Vulcans!)
This post originated on Dreamwidth, where it has
comments. Comment here or there.