Cake day! Who doesn’t love cake? There were 5 types of cake on the class list today, but due to time limitations we could only make one cake per team. I was paired with a wonderful lady named Wendy today and she is a chocoholic so we made a chocolate cake with mocha buttercream frosting.
First we made the cakes, which were about 6″ round. Wendy and I made the batter together and divided it amongst 4 pans so we each could have a layer cake.
While the cakes were cooking and cooling we started the buttercream icing. The original buttercream recipe calls for vanilla, but we had options to modify it to mocha, raspberry, or hazelnut. We opted for the mocha icing. It started out as whipped egg whites & sugar until it looked like marshmallow fluff. It took about 20 minutes of being whipped in a KitchenAid mixer to get to the white fluff part.
Then we added a lot of butter and whipped it for another 10 minutes in the mixer. When it was stiff enough we added the mocha and melted chocolate for the flavour. It smelled divine.
By the time the cakes cooled we sliced them into layers. I opted to make a 4 layer cake and Wendy made a 2 layer cake. Piping the scalloped edge wasn’t on the class schedule but I knew how to do it from my Wilton classes so I decided to fancy mine up a bit. Not too bad, eh?
We also finished the cream puffs from yesterday by piping the filling inside and dipping the tops in chocolate. Mmmmm.
Here are some pictures of what my classmates made. This is vanilla roulade with lime curd and fruit compote.
Raspberry Hazelnut Genoise.
Coconut layer cake.
And now a class photo.
The culinary school offers a variety of classes including a knife skills class. The student make vegetable soup so they can learn how to slice carrots, taters, zucchini and a bunch of other stuff. Since they make a lot, we get to eat their hard work for lunch every day and it is quite delicious!
