Last day of 2nd week, 2nd day at pastry..
We did our daily routine, slice bread, heat up sauces, prepare equipments, unmould parfait, bring to top table pantry, plate and come back down for mise en place..
Today we made pastry cream! As next week dessert is espresso profiteroles, we have to make the coffee diplomat cream for the profiteroles. We had a extremely good news! Due to all the choux we made yesterday, we had enough to last the whole week! No more choux to pipe^^
Chef T taught us how to make the cream.. Its was a simple process yet tiring for arms as the cream will get thicker and thicker.. Which means it will get heavier.. And I almost burn my cream due to the induction stove.. =.= Oh well. Almost. Phew.
Then we make the coffee extract using coffee powder and water.. WOW. If all extract is made this way, I gonna save lots of money!!! $.$ ka-ching! Haha. Anyway, we can't mixed them together till Monday so the cream is considered done.
After break, we make strawberry shortcake! First we slice the strawberries to the desired size, then we make the cream and have some simple syrup standing by.. We start by cutting the cake into half to create layers.. Then we spread some syrup on it to keep the cake moist.. Next, we spread the cream.. It's very difficult for me -.-" Keep getting it wrong and have the cream on the wrong side of the pallet knife.. Haha. After spreading the cream, put some strawberry and spread more cream.. This is even more difficult than the previous ones.. -.- Then we put the other half of the cake on it and spread cream on the whole cake.. Including the sides.. Then we put some almonds flakes at the sides.. And viola! The cake is finally completed! Yeah~ Then we decorate the cake with chocolate :D Too bad we can't try that.. Aww..
Then after that we make macaroon.. Using meringue.. So fun. But its piping again.. -.- Lucky its not me who is doing the piping.. Haha. Then we bake inside the oven.. And we have food tasting! Yum yum :D
