Apple pie

Apple pie is such a good soul food for me! I could eat a whole pie myself! I also made pinwheels with the left over dough.

Pinwheels:

1. Roll dough out like you would a crust and spread a nice layer of butter on the dough.
   
2. Then sprinkle with a heavy dose of cinnamon and sugar and then roll up into a log and cut into 1 inch pieces.
   
3. Turn over so the spiral is showing and put in the oven with the pie and cook until they are golden brown on top. Should only be about 10 minutes.

Advanced pastry

These are roses made out of modeling chocolate

Its a lot harder than you would think because the heat of your hand makes the chocolate melt and become gooey

I also made a bear. Its okay to laugh. I was just experimenting with the chocolate. I'm still trying to get things right.

My Disney World adventures

This summer I had an internship at Disney World. Even though I'm a baking and pastry arts major, i signed up for 3 months of culinary with Walt Disney World. It was crazy!

I worked at a place called sunshine seasons. I worked usually 6 days a week at 8 hours a day. Sometimes more. Here I am at the wok station. We also has the salad station, the grill station, and the sandwich station. It was a lot of work but I learned a lot and made some mad awesome friends.

Plus I got to go into the parks for freeeeee.
What could be better?

My First Gingerbread House!

I have never made a gingerbread house before but i found it a lot of fun! It was also a bit challenging but i had a lot of different things i got to use!
I made a tree out of green twizzlers and glued it to an ice cream cone with royal icing. (my icing was a bit to thick) and the star on top is made from a starburst

We donated the houses to a homeless shelter. All the children got their own gingerbread house!

My royal icing really wasnt the best but i did what i could. We glued the houses together with caramelized sugar. it was solid as a rock!
The finished product! I thought it was cute. I didn't get to do all the things i wanted to because i ran out of time. but for my first time...i think i did pretty good!

Marzipan me

In class today we got to make people out of marzipan and fondant, I decided that i was going to make myself and this is how it came out!

This is everyone's in the class. some of them came out so interesting!