Lesson Plan: Basic Cake Decorating
Description: Boiled Icing, color mixing, Chiffon, Chocolate Cake, Butter Cake, etc.
Description: Boiled Icing, color mixing, Chiffon, Chocolate Cake, Butter Cake, etc.
Big bird partly finished!
Jaja's Smurf Turf
Strawberry Shortcake (Cheater....yeah, you know what i'm talking about Jojo!)According to our syllabus class is going to be about basic cake decorating. Chef Heny is known for her expertise in this matter. She's a CCA graduate in Napa and also trained using the Wilton method for decorating. She has several years of experience in the baking and pastry field and is a chef celebrity. She's kinda like the Martha Stewart of the Philippines, if you will.
In the past, I have already taken several of her cake decorating classes so I thought this was going to be a bit of a breeze.
It was also this day that I would finally meet the students I will be with throughout the next few months. There were 14 students in total. Of that 3 students were males and the rest female.
This time, I sat in the back and of course close to Joseph since we already knew each other. As I was trying to mingle with others, I met another guy named Jan. He was a late comer so he sat next to me. First impressions were a bit off with this guy. He was a younger guy and seemed to be a bit of a rich young prick. (First impressions are deceiving, later I was to see he would be another of the contributors and close friend.)
We were to mise en place our own ingredients for our chosen cake and bake them ourselves. I can already tell alot of us were making mistakes with the way our chosen cakes came out of the oven. Because it was mostly chiffon type cakes, most of the ones didn't rise to its full potential or some didn't prep their pans properly therefore some got stuck in the pan. It was also apparent that some were already feeling the pressure already. It was chaotic in terms of mise en place because each one was looking out for themselves.
As class progressed, Chef Heny taught the basics of piping, how to make boiled icing and coloring. We were to bake and design our own character cakes. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to learn to actually carve our own cakes, but instead used pans and molds. I chose big bird. Joseph took Strawberry Shortcake and Jan - Smurfs.
It was also in this lesson that we had the most fun. As class was almost over, I ended up extremely having fun with Jan....only because he and I were the last ones to finish and we finished fairly late. It was also here that I knew going forward our friendship would last. We found out we lived so close to each other and would end up carpooling to school. I digress, he wasn't the young prick I thought in the beginning....just a spoiled brat!
Which cake do you guys like the best?
As class progressed, Chef Heny taught the basics of piping, how to make boiled icing and coloring. We were to bake and design our own character cakes. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to learn to actually carve our own cakes, but instead used pans and molds. I chose big bird. Joseph took Strawberry Shortcake and Jan - Smurfs.
It was also in this lesson that we had the most fun. As class was almost over, I ended up extremely having fun with Jan....only because he and I were the last ones to finish and we finished fairly late. It was also here that I knew going forward our friendship would last. We found out we lived so close to each other and would end up carpooling to school. I digress, he wasn't the young prick I thought in the beginning....just a spoiled brat!
Which cake do you guys like the best?
