more pastry fun
Class was awesome tonight. Katherine and I made chocolate peanut butter bombes. These were the ones I least liked, but the point is to learn the skills, so I let her choose. I always get the feeling that we are behind schedule, but each class I’ve partnered with Katherine, we tend to finish our tasks at the same time and usually first among the other groups.
chocolate peanut butter bombes
Once we were done with the bombes, we retrieved the zebra torte from last week and frosted it. Katherine didn’t want much of the cake since she didn’t care for the components in it. I mean, she likes chocolate, but she likes dense, rich, gooey chocolate. This had chocolate genoise, so she wasn’t keen on it. She took some of the cake for her son and husband and left the rest for me. Since she had a 20 mile run tomorrow morning and we were done by 8 pm – she got the okay to head home for the evening.
zebra torte
Before Katherine left, Shan wrote up our names on scraps of paper and had Kate, our assistant, draw partners for the remaining classes (specifically, cakes). I am partnered with Carmen, who is really skillful and knowledgeable. She’s great!
I stuck around longer as people began to unmold their bombes. It was fun to just hang out and see what others were turning out as well as chatting with the chef and everyone else. Class is really great fun. We set out slices of our cakes and bombes for all to sample. I also saved out a whole slice of zebra torte for our dishwasher and others did likewise. Mad loot!
a gorgeous slice of carmen and lynda’s lemon mousseline torte
lemon bombe with macerated raspberries
Allison and her partner made chocolate caramel bombes in the pyramid molds – very cool. We all ended up trading around since I don’t care for peanut butter that much. The lemon bombes were delicious as was the lemon mousseline torte.
allison unmolds the chocolate caramel bombes
I was quite sad to learn yesterday that Don Herbert passed away. Don Herbert was also known as Mr. Wizard, and I grew up watching his shows. I loved his demos. Turns out Jeremy watched Mr. Wizard too when he was a kid. What we both loved was how he asked questions and then proceeded to perform experiments with household items. Consider him the non-ADD precursor to Bill Nye, Science Guy. I love Bill too – but Don didn’t need to rely on flash and whiz bang spazmania to keep kids interested in science. Mr. Wizard was inquisitive and more like a real scientist even though he was really a showman. All of his science was self-taught. Good on ya, Mr. Wizard, and thanks for the science.
