Chocolate Mousse Cake/Chocolate Genoise

Chocolate Mousse with Chocolate Genoise
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Chocolate genoise soaked with simple syrup, dusted with cocoa powder, topped with chocolate decorations
(swirls, dark and white chocolate stripe -my fav!)

Passionfruit Mousse & Chocolate

Cake Craft @ Niagara College

Passionfruit Mousse with an almond dacquoise
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piping chocolate designs, passionfruit glaze, chocolate decorations

Vintage Inn Competition

Sunday @ Niagara College : Vintage Inn Competition

Tasks within 5 hours (too long)

Construct a chocolate box (8'' x 3'')
Choux paste (cream puffs)
pastry cream

This is what I came up with.

Chocolate

Chocolate: the main existence in my life for the past 5 months-year. No matter where I go it always seems to find me. We have a love-hate relationship. :)

Things I love about chocolate:
1. the glossy shine it has when you pour it on a marble slab right before tempering it.
2. way it moves so freely when your pushing it with the scraper (forgiving)
3. consumption of the finished chocolate piece

Dislikes:
1. too much chocolate = really bad stomach ache
2. can get really messy

**more to come: pralines, desserts, more chocolate!!!**

Moving Day!!

This week my journey living in St Catharines/Niagara ends for less than a year. Moving in December and coming here to live for pastry school comes to a bittersweet end.
Bitter: miss my roommates, school, teachers, chefs, amazing people I've met (once strangers-now life long friends) from the hilarious cab drivers to the random guy on the street selling socks (oh yeah, this actually happens every Thursday). Bitter--probably gained some unnecessary weight from all the baked goods and desserts made in class :'( It's been a slice.

Sweet: school is stressful, gained too many white/gray hairs from classes, tests and exams. Finally glad it's over!! All the knowledge and experience gained in the past four months.

So this chapter in my life comes to a close and will be re-opened next January.

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