Our Year-End Dessert Presentation!

It's a bittersweet feeling now that I've come to the completion of my Patisserie course... Glad for what I've learnt during the year, of what I've managed to accomplish, for the people I've met along the way. My deepest gratitude to our amazing Chef instructors/tutors who made each class fun, interesting and so enjoyable! It was a little sad emptying out my locker, knowing I'd probably not be seeing our Patisserie kitchen again (unless of course I return for Year 2 to complete the Diploma ;) Hmmm).
Anyway, with all assessments behind us it was time to focus our efforts on our 'Festive Celebrations' themed Year End Buffet...

The Chinese New Year station:

 My Lychee Mousse Gateau

 My Celebration Cake :)

 My Green Tea Swiss Rolls

 The Easter station:

St. Patrick's Day station:

Matariki (Maori New Year) station:

The Christmas station:

The Halloween station:

Cute Gingerbread men doing the Haka for Matariki

Assorted hand-made chocolates

And that concludes my great Patisserie adventure for 2011!! Can't wait for many more to come :)

We all scream for Ice Cream :D

Our Ice Cream buffet! Ice cream, sundaes, sorbets...oh my!

Summer's around the corner, Time to cool things down

We're on to Cold Desserts! The final paper of the course :( The year's gone by in the blink of an eye! As we wrap up, here are some photos...

 Panna Cotta with Wine Jelly

 Empress Rice Pudding

 Gula Melaka in sugar cage

 Lime Coconut Bavarois

 Vanilla Kirsch Bavarois

 Choc Mousse Teardrop

 Choc Marquise

 Tiramisu

Choc Mousse Tea Cup

Too Hot to Handle...

Hence, we're moving onto Cold Desserts next week (ice creams and sorbets-yum!) but till then here are a couple more shots taken in class as we wrap up Hot Desserts.

 Sponge Pudding

 Orange Souffle

 Tart au Citron

 Pumpkin Orange cake

 Tarte Tartin with Creme Anglaise

 Lemon Meringue

Part of the final assessment for this module- Sponge Pudding and Apple Strudel, Souffle not shown

Whoops!

Just realised I had forgotten to post up pix from our Shop production module. Following our Professional Experience/Placement we're back in Uni again, but instead of our regular classes we're stocking up the Uni cafe with gateaus and pastries for 2 weeks! Here's a sample of some of the items we produced:

 Brioche, Sausage Rolls and Pies

 Assorted cookies. Different flavours each day.

 Slices, these also differed each day.

 Quiches and Pizza slices.

 French Pastries- about a dozen different types every day...

 The display cabinet, stocked with our pastries!

 Fruit tarts.

 Black Forest Gateaux.

 Choc Divinity Cake.

 More assorted French Pastries.