Baking a Birthday Cake

I baked a cake for the neighbor's daughter who is having a birthday party today. I baked two 9" layers of white cake. On top of the first layer, I coated it with a milk chocolate ganache, then put a layer of fresh raspberries, then another layer of ganache and the top layer of cake.

I covered the cake with the milk chocolate ganache. I made the yellow and pink butter cream roses last night. This is the first cake that I've ever made butter cream roses for and I'm pretty happy with the outcome. The yellow roses were the last that I made and they looked better than the pink ones. The more I made the better the roses came out. I made some green icing and made piped some green leaves. The cake, icing and filling were all picked by the birthday girl and she was very happy with the cake when I delivered it. Happy Birthday Skyler!

Monique and Skyler

10:07pm - Update: My family and I also got to taste the cake. It was very good. The neighbors were very happy with the taste as well. This puts a smile on my face.

Day 27 - Chicken and Roses

A friend of mine in class helps her mother, who is a cake decorator, decorate cakes. I asked her to come in early this morning and teach me how to make roses using butter cream. Thankfully she agreed. I'm making a birthday cake for a neighbor and wanted to put roses on it, so now I can attempt it. The purple roses are my first attempt. I can do better with a little practice now that I know how to do it. I was excited to learn.

Oddly enough, what we cooked today in class had nothing what so ever to do with Patisserie and Baking. You may remember that just the other day I complained about not doing enough baking in class and class getting dismissed 30 minutes quite often. Well, they top that today. I cooked Chicken Marsala. It came out OK, but me being used to eating New Orleans style food, well, I thought Chicken Marsala was a little bland. It could have used a little Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning on it.

Today I got my quiz results from the last two Friday practicals. I earned a 97 on one and 100 on the other.

The last thing I did today was to make crepes. I definitely need a little more practice. The crepes that I made today will be used tomorrow when I will make Crepe Suzettes, Bananas Foster, and Cherry Jubilee.