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Little Lotto: Tradition
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A baking blog by a culinary arts student. strike that. professional. Monday, November 23, 2009. Don't laugh. I'm never arranging cannoli this way on a plate ever again. Ok, now that you finished laughing, I'll explain. This is an actual recipe from the Professional Pastry Chef. I've also made pita pockets. Bagels are boiled before they are baked. It makes them chewy. If you've been to New York, you might have tried bialys. They're similar to bagels with sauteed onion. I didn't like them. That weekend, I ...
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Little Lotto: June 2009
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A baking blog by a culinary arts student. strike that. professional. Wednesday, June 24, 2009. A chocolate cake with a bit of red wine sounds great, doesn't it? What if it was then soaked. In sweetened red wine? Glazed with red currant jelly? With whipped cream and kumquats? I don't know how to put into words how delicious it turns out. And the rest of the class is jealous. To make sure the next dessert is just as awe-inspiring, start with lemon confit. Once again, you have earned the envy of others.
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Little Lotto: May 2009
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A baking blog by a culinary arts student. strike that. professional. Sunday, May 17, 2009. So now that I'm home during the day, I watch Martha Stewart. She's kind of a bitch. But she has guests that make food I want to make. One day she had on Erin McKenna, the owner of Babycakes gluten free bakery, and they made these gluten free chocolate chip cookies. It also uses evaporated sugar cane instead of processed sugar. It gives a molasses flavor to the cookie, which is interesting. Please don't blame me thi...
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Little Lotto: March 2009
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A baking blog by a culinary arts student. strike that. professional. Sunday, March 22, 2009. I like my cake batter like I like my whisky: Stiff but not dry. Andrea, Jennifer and Iris came over to have our first cake decorating "class." I want to show you how cute the cupcakes turned out before I tell the tale of the 4 hour cupcake-a-thon. I may not have shortening, but I do have cake flour on hand at all times. Weird. Iris likes Swans Down cake flour over Softasilk. You know, because of the box. The Joy ...
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Little Lotto: August 2009
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A baking blog by a culinary arts student. strike that. professional. Tuesday, August 18, 2009. Life has gotten in the way of the blog. Well, life and Bejeweled Blitz. Prepare to be bombarded with 5 weeks of cakes and candy! First, we finish up the Sacher Torte. Glazing the cake with apricot simple syrup, and then a layer of ganache. Creating embellishments with tempered chocolate. Caraibe Torte, another chocolate sponge cake. Dobos Torte, a sponge cake with chocolate and caramel. I was feeling discourage...
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Little Lotto: July 2009
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A baking blog by a culinary arts student. strike that. professional. Saturday, July 18, 2009. Who doesn't like chocolate? Summer quarter started this week, and so far so good. In European Cakes and Tortes, we started a Sacher Torte. It's a dense chocolate sponge cake with apricot filling. Here we are folding a meringue into the chocolate. We froze the cakes and will finish up next week with filling and ganache glaze. To use chocolate as a decoration and maintain its texture and physical properties, you h...
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Little Lotto: Holla
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A baking blog by a culinary arts student. strike that. professional. Sunday, December 13, 2009. I hope one of you is ready to hire a personal pastry chef (PPC). Cuz in one week, I graduate. Then it's hardcore Christmas Cookie Time. Then. I got nothin.'. But I know how to make awesome pizza dough! And I can cover it in your favorite toppings. And as your PPC, I won't even let Linda touch it. (She didn't touch my pizza, either. Her hand got slapped! When they hear someone else say "Challah"? Next week I wa...
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Little Lotto: June 2010
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A baking blog by a culinary arts student. strike that. professional. Monday, June 28, 2010. It's So Fluffy I'm Gonna Die. So, I "graduated" in June, but I decided to go to Taryn and Erik's wedding instead. (Congrats! It made me realize how long it's been since I updated. My last post was just before Christmas, and I promised to show you the gingerbread version of the Pyramids. So here you go. MANY AI students and chefs worked on this giant gingerbread house, which turned out really nice. Valentine's Day ...
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Little Lotto: Can't Hardly Wait
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A baking blog by a culinary arts student. strike that. professional. Sunday, October 25, 2009. The Fashion department at the Art Institute held their first annual fashion show, and I helped make the desserts for the event. I baked the spice cake on Wednesday, then Thursday morning started pumpkin praline tarts. After baking all day, we also served the desserts that night. Then it was bread time. Most of the recipes we use are from Nancy Silverton's Breads from the La Brea Bakery. This is a miche after it...
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