I am writing today while everything is fresh in my mind.
In the lesson today we had Victoria Sponge, Madeira Cake, Madeleines, Lemon drizzle cake and fruit cakes.
We had to make a Victoria sponge from scratch without any help from machines. It was an incredibly hard work to do, beating that cake by hand, it sure replaces a good workout at the gym!
The atmosphere in the class is very good, everyone works hard at it, there is a lot of cooperation and very little competition and I hope it will keep because too many cooks can spoil the broth. If people start to go funny and competitive it will spoil the cooperative spirit we have got so far.
I enjoy those lessons immensely and the teacher is extremely competent and courteous.
Here are the pictures we have today:
Hard at work with the pastry
Our beautiful Victoria sponge 4 hands made
South Devon College Pastry Kitchen
Maggie and I
Our Victoria sponge baked
Victoria sponges and madeira cakes
Our Victoria Sponge
Our teacher David Galpin hard at work
Fruit cakes
Madeleines and Madeira cakes
My colleague Paige hard at work
Cakes, cakes and more cakes
The class working at Madeleines
Cutting cherries in half
Decorating Madeleines
Look at these beauties....yummy!
Fruit cakes
Victoria sponge filled in with jam and cream
Stuffing ourselves with madeleines
Well, this was the end of our lovely class. We had a try on the madeleines and fruit cakes and It was superb, the best ever butter icing I have ever tasted.
Please keep posted to learn more about our pastry classes.
See you soon,
Gisele
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