A Summer Challenge Awaits

The biggest challenge of the summer will be the brutal heat. I haveno idea how they do it here in NYC, but I complete admire all the pastry chefs and cake makers baking cakes and making butter cream under such high temperature. Not to mention delivering during the summer time but also during the winter snow. Folks, we have it good in California, no more complains!

Friday night was a very fun class. We baked off sheets of American

milk sponge cake, filled and crumb coated it. Then here comes the chocolate cake.. Talking about getting some chocolate action! This is a devil's food cake filled with chocolate ganache, coated with more chocolate ganache, then decorated with chocolate modeling chocolate roses. Got chocolate? Here are pictures of Chef Cynthia doing demo for us...

Making roses from modeling chocolate:

Here are my creations...

Until next time... :)