Last week, I started the class called Baking for Culinary. It is a 3 week class designed to teach culinary students the basics of baking--breads, cakes, cookies, doughs, pies, tarts, MMMM. Every day we have tastings of what we made that day. I can feel the pounds being packed on. But I am really enjoying the class. Learning a lot, and baking makes more sense. I now understand the complexity of some of the things we eat (and science). But I have realized that some things that seemed near impossible to do really are not that easy (pie dough...not that hard!) There is definitely an exactness to baking, as we have already seen by mismeasuring things. And directions are crucial, especially when making pastry cream. It is so different from cooking because if a mistakes is made when cooking, it can often be fixed...baking, not so much.
Right now, my homework consists of making a marzipan rose every night and piping out 21 designs. Talk about easy homework! I get to bring food home often, which makes my roomie and my friends quite happy!
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