My Pastry Class

I think I mentioned a while back that I've been teaching two community education classes for the last few months. Well, I've finally finished up with them, and despite some stress, I would totally do it again! Maybe just one class at a time in the future, though. :) Fabulous people, great times in the kitchen, and of course all sorts of exciting bits of pastry know-how.

I only remembered to bring my camara to capture it for my last class, and I wanted to show you all a little of what we did.

Throughout the eight weeks we learned how to make:

Tarts

Mousse

Choux paste (cream puffs & eclairs)

Baklava

Brioche

Chocolate truffles

Puff pastry

and in our last class we made Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes, learned about dessert sauces and caramel, and how to make spun sugar.

I think we had a pretty good time.

Here's Dorothy holding the finished product- a spun sugar nest.

Then we got down to the sauces: Caramel, Chocolate-Caramel, and Cardamom-Pomegranate

I was so proud of their presentation-

It's 80%!

Like I said before, I had a blast. A true learning experience for me, but it was so much fun, and I'm SO glad I did it!