My First Chocolate Showpieces
Hi everyone
These are the first items i am putting on my blog. We just finished our Chocolate Showpiece class. The Red one is supposed to be a Sailboat on the water. it has birds and coral and the seashells look so real but they are made of chocolate also. It is much easier than previously thought to be. it only took a day (six hours). The really large one is supposed to be a celebration of fall. It is very abstract. There are grapes and flowers and random curly cues. That one took 3 days. It is very large. Next week we start on Sugar showpieces. Then i get to go back to St. Louis for Thtanksgiving!! yeah!! By the way, I was asked to come back to The French Pastry School as an intern for the next session starting in January, so i will be in Chicago for at least another 6 months. This is fun, i will try to blog every couple of days.
9 comments:
congrats on the internship! 'look forward to seeing you sometime when you're down--especially if you were to make me something to eat or something....
thanks jeremy! i will be in town for thanksgiving. i will see if i can come over maybe on sat to see you and brandy and the kids... =)
Becky those chocolate sculptures are amazing. Before I read what it was I thought the big one was some sort of dancing lobster. :) So are these just for looks or do people actually eat them?
April's onto something, Becky. I think you'll find a correlation between the number of images of your creations you've sent us and the amount of resentment we feel towards you for not sending us any friggin' samples! You're like Martin Short in that unforgettable scene from the forgettable Three Amigos. The amigos are dying of thirst, riding through the desert, Short's character is the only one with any water left, he takes a swig, rinses and spits, drains the rest of the canteen on the sand, then turns cluelessly to his incredulous cohorts and asks, "Lip balm?"
Becky, we're dying of gourmet dessert thirst here, and you smile and offer us pictorial lip balm?!
You are so amazing! I'm proud of you!
oh, dean, you are so funny!! i am sorry. if you would be in stl for thanksgiving i have tons and tons of handmade candy, i think it is like 4 gallon bags full. april, i did need a new point of view, now that i look at it it does look like a dancing lobster. =)
Becky, you are an artist! I like the curly cues and the grapes. Are the grapes chocolate too? How do you make chocolate into such a pretty shade of purple? See you soon.
yes the grapes are chocolate. after they are glued on, the glue is chocolate, we "paint" them using petal dust. a food grade shimmer color usually used to paint flowers to make them look real. this isn't even the finished product, i put the wrong one on the blog, the finished one has a big red flower on it.
Wow! This is amazing! Where did you take the chocolate showpiece class?
I will be traveling towards the midwest in May. Is the class in Chicago? The pieces seem so hard to make but fun.
I just came across your top page, so sorry if the school details are in the blog ;)
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