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10
May
2010
Small Triumphs – Mothers Day & Macarons
No one has attempted as many bad batches of those perfect Parisian cookies as I have. My macarons have stuck to the paper & lost their bottoms, cracked at the top, failed to rise, had big awful air pockets…you name it, I have seen it.
I have tried the French meringue method, the Italian meringue method & the little known Swiss meringue method all with disappointing results. All in all I would say I have made over 35 batches of failed macarons in the last 2 years.
Much of the problem lay within my own patience. I have incorrectly read recipes more times than I care to mention.
6
Apr
2010
Easter crowd pleasin’ rich chocolate cake
Does festive baking transform you into a trembling, twitching nervous wreck?
Join the club
There’s something about baking for the holidays the renders me a complete kitchen mess. It must be the pressure, because without fail the moment I set my mind to preparing festive treats all my baking sense goes out the window.
I forget to warm eggs & butter to room temperature, I pour boiling milk over yeast & then rest dough in full sun. I even occasionally pull roasting pans from the oven without oven mitts (yes that has really happened in the heat of a holiday cooking tizz) I scream at loved ones & run around barefoot with knives.
4
Mar
2010
Box of sunshine
I call this one my bumblebee box, isn’t it cute?
I have an interview for work experience with a local florist this Saturday. All being well yours truly will soon be cleaning cool-rooms & scrubbing buckets every second Saturday for a few hours. The experience should really help me get a good position once I have finished school. Unless, you’re reading & own a florist & wish to give me a full time position now, in which case…I love you & I will take it!
My bumblebee box contains: Sunflowers, spray roses, monstera leaves & some other random leaves I have collected from about the place. The big spikey ones hurt, a lot.
12
Feb
2010
Love is in the air, a floral valentine project
Those of you who have been following my progress for while will remember last years Christmas display I completed for school. The task seems easy enough, create a themed floral display worthy of a shop window. Last year we didn’t really have to arrange anything though, we just stuck some tulips in some vases & wrapped it all up in tinsel (so to speak)
10
Dec
2009
I made you a pie, but I eated it…
I have been a bad bad blogger.For a start, I was playing with the html (WHY, WHY WHY!) and I broke something with my fonts & colours. I am having a new blog layout designed anyway so I just uploaded this cute one I found for the time being. The old one was really getting me down.
Also……..I made you guys a pie, but I wasn’t real happy with it. It was macadamia & white chocolate, so I ate it. I made some cupcakes, they were delicious but I thought they were a little ugly, they shrunk after I took them out of the oven, it was crazy. Bummer. Hence the lack of food related blogging lately.
School is finished for the year now too, what’s a girl to do? (certainly not bother cleaning her increasingly rat nest like apartment)
So I thought I would take a chance to post all the pictures that haven’t made it this year either out of dissatisfaction or laziness. Let the madness begin!
White Choc & Macadamia Pie. Not the prettiest presentation, and I wasn't happy with the crust.
This pie didn't like having it's picture taken. It looks angry, angry angry pie.
Did you know you need to "bleed" frangipanis? You basically cut them & float them in water before you use them. The sap kind of clots & stops going all over the place, it is rather clever.
After you've bled your frangipanis you can make a circlet out of them & skip around the workshop with a bunch of wedding flowers. Not that I would do that, I am far too cool & important...just saying.
Modern box arrangements must be photographed all diagonally..because they're all funky
It was kind of weird that this arrangement perfectly framed the side of our TV, it's like it was designed specifically for that space, and yes of course I totally meant it.
This beautiful creation was my Masterchef Audition piece. It was a hazelnut & organic dark choc mud cake with hazelnut praline & orange frangelico mascarpone...you know, just something I threw together.
Obviously I didn't make it onto the show, but it was an excellent experience & I met a few cool people.
This was my absolute first thing I ever made at GC Floristry Management. A modern foliage arrangement with mostly bits from my garden..sexy huh?
I bought this Barambah Organic yogurt & I was so impressed with it I had to take a picture. That's just how I roll
The fluorescent lighting at school really doesn't do anything for my photography..but you get the idea..It's round & wreathy
My fat hot cakewreck. Some people tried to console me about this one childing me "I am sure it tasted delicious"...no such luck. It is even more hilarious when you see what I was trying to make
Way to end it on a high note! I hope you all got a laugh out of my cakewreck, it makes me smile every time I see it. I am going to reattempt my gingerbread cupcakes on the weekend so we see what happens with that. Does anyone know what may cause a cupcake to shrink once out of the oven, I thought it may have something to do with being pulled out of a hot oven & put into an air conditioned room to cool..just a thought.
I must make at least one Christmasy post before I leave or I am fired, I mean what kind of food blogger would I be?
