The Showpiece

As a part of chocolate work we were doing a chocolate showpiece.
Each term the patisserie chef thinks out of some theme for Superior students showpiece.

Before this term I was looking at showpieces that other students made and just wondering how beautiful they are, and I couldn't beleive that it has been made of chocolate!


Lately, the Ratatouille movie just came out to the screens, and we were lucky to be at Superior Patisserie course in this time. Ratatouille was chosen to be our showpiece.
There are very colourful characters - the chef, Linguini, food critic, Remy the rat and etc.
I'm not a big fan of chocolate, and in the beginning of working on it showpiece, I thought that it's going to be boring, but as a nice surprise it wasn't.

It was exciting, enjoying and again - nice to see as part by part it is growing to something beautiful.

And here are pictures.

Enjoy.

Superior Patisserie

This week I have started my last term in Le Cordon Bleu - Superior Patisserie.

My first day was a mess.

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I don't remember if I mentioned before - we had two cars (one for my husband, one for me), otherwise it's a subject of much controversies - who will get the car and who will go by bus.

Unfortunately, one car died just a week before, and on my first day I took the bus to the train station. And of course I missed my train, and then were "minor delays" on a tube. So on, I came to school 30 minutes later. But chef was kind and let me come in.

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The structure of the studies this term is completely different then previous. It's all about workshops. We no more sit and watch the demonstration, we just making things straight away (since we are smart know :-) ).

This term includes four modules: Chocolate, Sugar work, Plated restaurant desserts and boulangerie.

My favourite, boulangerie, is at the end. So no way to go, I'll wait to the end :-).

We have started from the Chocolate.

What can I say ?!

It's too much chocolate!!! It's three weeks of melting, smelling, building and decorating chocolate! At the end of the first day the chocolate was all over me - hands, face, clothes - sweet woman :-), and I deadly wanted to eat something salty like a gherkin :-).

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It should be a heaven for chocolate lovers!

But I'll wait for my heaven - boulangerie!

It's the result of two first days - chocolate truffles, caramel, nougat and etc.