Experiment with modeling chocolate: Failure. It scorches too easily and is too heavy for what I want. Sugar artist I am not. But that's ok, because Plan B (not the pill) is just as acceptable, and more of a keepsake. If I buy the glasses off of Amazon, I get a set of 6, giving me 4 blanks that I can screw up on or try different designs for. I ( Read more... )

I'm trying something out way early as a trial run for my wedding. Yes, it's time to branch out from my comfortable abilities into...pastry. Yes, that's right. Specifically: chocolate work. And not just any chocolate work, but white chocolate work (with cocoa butter), the most difficult kind. Why you ask? Because white chocolate needs to be ( Read more... )

So. Homecoming was fun here; lots of free stuff. Good food, great chocolate, live bands. I could wear pants and do the Yoshiki thing. Which was fun. Got a glowstick and a polaroid of a bunch of us who went so you can all see that later. There was a fire-eater and people on stilts ( Read more... )