Critical Path » Projects http://arioch.net a blog is like an opinion, everybody's got one Tue, 19 May 2009 22:46:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Sweet Tooth http://arioch.net/2007/08/16/sweet-tooth/ http://arioch.net/2007/08/16/sweet-tooth/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2007 06:10:58 +0000 arioch http://arioch.net/2007/08/16/sweet-tooth/ This summer I took a course called “Advanced Pastries I” which covered all sorts of desserts from low-fat European cakes (not that they’re really really low in fat, just that the cake component does not rely on fats) to bavarians, charlottes, truffles, molded candies, and various confectionary involving caramel and/or marshmallow.

The products we turned out are generally fairly high-class classic desserts, and a lot of them took quite a bit of work to do, and we generally started from scratch during daily production. The only shortcuts we used were using pre-made tartlet shells and truffle molds.

I’ve uploaded some pictures of the stuff we made in class here and here. I’ve probably mislabeled some of the pictures in the first link, since those were done hurriedly before the course midterms. A small sample of the total:

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