Chocolat

This week was all about chocolate. I had a new chef this week as well, who I really enjoyed, even though he was sometimes hard to understand. His name was Chef Regis. During the week, we worked on making many different chocolate sculptures.

We made some small and easy chocolate sculptures, like ladybugs, caterpillers, and strawberries to bigger and more difficult sculptures. These included two artistic pieces and a character that we got to choose what it was doing.

 

During the first two days, we tempered chocolate and made some simple pieces. We started off with chocolate lady bugs and strawberries.

From there we worked on making pieces for our character, an angry bird pig, and our two artistic pieces. All of these chocolate sculptures were made by molding chocolate and sticking the pieces together.

Angry Bird Pig

 

Artistic Piece #1

For my character, I made a soccer player which was going to be me. My character was coming out great until the very end, when it was being sprayed. When it was being sprayed it fell over and a couple pieces fell off. Chef tried to fix it, but with the sun setting and shining in the classroom, it was melting the chocolate and not sticking. It was coming out great until then, but that's okay. Chelsea's character also had the same issue as me along with another girl from our table. We laughed it off and joked around about our pieces breaking to make it seem like it was okay.

Artisitc Piece #2

The next two days went better then the second day. We did not have any more broken chocolate sculptures to any of our artistic pieces. We had a buffet on Thursday as well to show off all of our chocolate pieces.

On Friday we had our final exam/final entremet project that we have been working and perfection the last couple of weeks. Mine came out great, and I am so glad we are done with it.

Our entire group and our entremets

My Entremet

This weekend I am back off to Paris for round 2!!!