Preppy Day ;)

Hi all!

Happy Tuesday!! No pictures today :( Boooo... What is a blog without pictures??

....But it was just a prep day today.  We are in the process of making stacked 6" cakes so we made the Ribbon sponge which will go around the outside of  our mousse cake tomorrow.  That was fun!!  We created and colored our batter and then were able to get all artistic-n-stuff ;)  We were to design the ribbon sponge any way we wanted. I worked with Andrea and we chose a polka dot look and created a pink, purple and blue color theme.  I will show you those pictures tomorrow when we unmold it!  It was super cute and VERY girly.  Love it! Tomorrow we will create the mousse and finish assembling the cake. Can't wait to show it to ya!

We also made the Jaconde Sponge today. If you remember, we used this to make our Opera cake as well. :)   We are going to be making a 6" stacked cake out of that as well, I think.  Laughing! I really am just assuming because I am TOTALLY lost in this class; and so are my fellow classmates. Everything changes daily :) BUT, we're going to be mega positive about it and totally go with the flow. :)  Life is just way too short to have other people mess it all up for ya. Plus, its not like we are not learning right?  Make lemonade with those lemons baby! ;)

We have a big project due next week. We each have to create a double mousse torte report. What is that, you ask? Well, heck, I asked the same question. I don't know how to create it yet, but I will tell you what it is! We have a choice of making a torte (a cake) using either the ribbon sponge or stacked Jaconde method.  We need to come up with any two gelatin flavoured mousses of our liking. Then we need to figure out which garnish and glacage we want to use on our cake.  The report has to indicate all the necessary ingredients and the procedure to make the cake. There you have it. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions on flavors?!?! What is your favorite flavor and what would you pair it up with ? I have something in mind, but am not going to post it. :)  A girl can still have a secret right?

So yea, you can imagine how lost we all are since we have to turn in an ingredients list tomorrow so they can have all of them available for us when we go to make the cake.  BUT, none of us knows how to make a 6" stacked cake, or the mousse's for it, for that matter. I mean, we made A Bavarian mousse one day, but not a flavored one?!?!?  HELP!! I have to laugh! This is AWESOME!! :) :) :) It's like the blind leading the blind!

So yea, I am off to do a little Internet researching. It can't be that hard. At this point, we SHOULD all be able to do this and I am confident that we all will do something really tasty. 

I am off to go do some homework and research :) Wish me luck!  Get a good nights sleep and have a beautiful day tomorrow!

See you back here very soon.

XO