Cookie Hell

For our first week in the kitchen we are making nothing but chocolate chip cookies, pistachio macaroons, and brysslekex cookies. You would think that it all sounds so simple, but it is so hard. We are not allowed to use the mixers so we have to mix everything by hand, and if any of you know what a macaroon is you know that it starts out with a meringue. Ugh! This took some elbow grease to get done. I am now freakishly strong in one are. :) I can say that on Friday my cookies turned out perfect, which is a relief since they were crap at the first of the week. I got a perfect score on all my cookies. I will post a pic of them later.

Sugar Sculpting

So, after a week of cookie hell I was excited to go to a sugar sculpting workshop on Saturday. This was my first time ever doing anything like this, so please be kind. We learned how to make a fish by blowing air into hot sugar, and how to make a ribbon shape for the tail. We also learned several other techniques, but I will spare you the boring details. I can tell you that the sugar was extremely hot, so hot that I burned blisters on my hand while I was wearing three layers of gloves. I also burnt the tip of my rubber glove off, and then the instructor burnt another tip of my glove off with a blow torch, and caught my cardboard on fire. It was all totally worth it though. I can't wait until I am able to do more of these kinds of sculptures, but I have to wait until I am further along in school. Anyway, I was just so darn proud that I had to show off my work. I hope you all enjoy. I will try to post more later.