Day Two

Here I sit with grilled cheese sandwich in hand to tell you a tale, the tale of my second day of school. It’s a story of how I cut my fingers, my Lady Fingers, or as chef called them sponge fingers. As you can guess we made sponge fingers today. It was a lot like making meringue only we added the yokes back in along with some flour and stuff. Then we piped it out onto out parchment paper in cool little rows and baked for 6 minutes. Oh yea we topped them with powdered sugar first, yum!

After they came out of the over we trimmed them up and put them in rings like this.

And them we made Chocolate Moose. No that’s not right we made Chocolate Mousse! We made it with real dark chocolate too. We grabbed a whole bunch of it and chopped it super fine with our knives. Then we made a cream like we did yesterday and strained it onto the chocolate as it came off the induction burner. It all melted and was wonderful but wait, there is more. We whipped up some heavy cream in the kitchen Aid to make whipped cream, and folded that in with the chocolate to finish our mousse. The first time I let mine whip too long and I made butter. Oh well. So we filled our lady finger rings half way with mousse and put them in the fridge for Thursday.

Then we busted out our caramel creams from yesterday and flipped them out onto platters, thus finishing our Upside Down Caramel Creams. Each one was given a rosette of whipped cream and a little white chocolate square to finish them off. They were then taken to the brake room for us to eat after class, alas, I did not partake but did here that some were better then others.

That is all for now, I must to bed, or the semblance of bed, whatever comes first.

Oh, I brought home a mess of Lady Finger scraps and put them in the fridge, first come first served. If you want to come tonight call my cell phone.